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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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Enhance Spectrum Protect CMS feature

Starting 8.1.13 baclient / OC version, CMS is integrated with the baclient code. Right now, only part of the relevant baclient logs for investigations are being reported. It could be very helpful for “remote” diagnostics that the CMS is able to gr...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

SSL management enhancement

I have 2 related requests: Currently SP clients above V8.12/7.1.8 use TLS/SSL by default only encrypt authentication and session meta data. Full session encryption requires that ssl yes be added to the client dsm.opt/dsm.sys. I would like to see t...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

Integrate Restore UI with Spectrum Protect server

Symentac Netbackup, Commuvault and other Backup software have RESTORE UI integrated with Master server console. We need to develop Spectrum Protect with the RESTORE UI integrated with Spectrum Protect server
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

dsmc - more producer threads per filesystem

Modern SAN storage should not be limited to one producer thread per client filesystem during backups, nor 4 producer threads per DSMC instance. Requesting:A) RESOURCEUTIL max value should be higher, perhaps 20. B) New option, RESTHREADSPERFS, to s...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

TSM Client Support for ZFS on Linux filesystems

ZFS has been ported to Linux distributions, namely, Redhat Linux and other SysV environments. This RFE proposes to enable support for ZFS on Linux filesystems as a natively supported filesystem for backup and archive via the standard Linux TSM BA ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

SP Client LNX set offline password

We are deploying linux systems automatically without any user interaction. For this delivery we need to set the password for the SP Client after installation. There is no solution in SP Client linux to set password by scripts or command.On windows...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

WebClient file restore GUI can handle the password change when admin using FORCEPwr=yes

The WebClient file restore GUI can not handle the password change when admin using FORCEPwr=yes.This is neccessary to give customers the an webclient access which is uesed just by the person who is asked for web access to restore.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Domnode support for new Webclient GUI

The old webclient supported option domnode to be able to restore/activate Domino databases without logging into the target machine (help deskmodel). The domnode functionality is missing in the new security enabled Webclient (WEBGUI).
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

NDMP Restore function for normal GUI client

Please implement NDMP filelevel restore functions in the normal GUI client like they were in the webgui client.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect : Protect stg from Directory container to Cloud Container

Current TSM do not support Protect STG from Directory container to Cloud container. with Cloud Teiring its support Move of the data from directory container to Cloud container, but we dont have a way to only copy of the data. When you dont have lo...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 7 Not under consideration

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