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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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Snapdiff-Accounts on NetApp SVMs

For SnapDiff usage on NetApp-clusters a cluster-level-user with suitable permissions is needed. NetApp file-services are provided by "storage virtual machines" (SVMs), which have it's own user management. We would prefer to use SVM-level-SnapDiff ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

SP Client - Suppress interactive prompts

Hello, we do a lot of scripted restores and backups. We found that in a replicated environment under certain conditions a restore operation would for example prompt with "ANS2120W The last store operation date reported by the server .... does not ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protec for VE Change Last Backup Field in vCenter

When a VM Backup is done via vcenter after a complete Backup a Note will written to the machines guest note. There is no option to change a specific attribute in the "last backup" field. This would help my customer.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Specify Management Class for Hyper-V Backup

When backing up hyper-v virtual machines, we should able to specify target management class like a VMMC option at vmware backups.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

Allow JBB daemon to process files without a full backup completion stamp

Allow JBB daemon to start track files immediately, and upon request from dsmc using jbb, give the file list straight away. The full backup can be run in parallel, and may take weeks to complete, but the deltas can be backed up straight away.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

Provide TSM Client for Ubuntu s390x zLinux

Please provide a TSM Client (Spectrum Protect Client) installer for Ubuntu on s390x
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

HTTP banner in DSMCAD Spectrum Protect client

When scanning open ports of servers, the port 1581 (default, or configured by "httpport" in dsm.opt) answers with the string "Server: TSM_HTTP/0.1".This might be a security issue, as an attacker could see, which software is (TSM / Spectrum Protect...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Support for wildcards in directory restore command.

Support for wildcards in directory restore command.We want to have same wildcard ussage for Query backup command and Restore command. Now are wildcards in restore command restricted to be used in the file name or extension; they cannot be used in ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect backup of massive sparse file /var/log/lastlog on linux

From the customer: I found five RedHat-based Linux clients that were ultimately waiting for tape mounts because they were trying to back up the massive sparse file /var/log/lastlog. This file reports as being 480GB in size, even though it is actua...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

add fromdate/todate option to the command "delete backup <vm> -objtype=vm "

the fromdate / todate option is available for many delete backup commands but not for -objtype=vm We had cases where the expire inventory did not cleanup the vm backups ( when using replicate node ) , in order to fix this , we have to use the dele...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

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