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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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    make the ba-client scan a _single filesystem_ for new/changed/deleted files/dirs via parallel threads

    question: when will the ba-client be able to search through a _single filesystem_ for new/changed/deleted files/dirs via parallel threads? this feature is standard among most of ba-clients competitors and customers are asking for this frequently.
    about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    Expose file ownership (UID/GID) and permissions in dsmc query backup to enable self-service restores

    We are using `mmbackup` to back up large IBM Storage Scale (GPFS) file systems that are shared by thousands of users.Our goal is to offer self-service restores using `dsmc` while ensuring that users can only restore files they have POSIX-Access to...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Submitted

    adjust installation scripts to work with DNF and the new path for the ln binary

    For a while now (since Red Hat 7?) DNF has been the preferred way to install and manage packages on Red Hat systems. The TSM client documents explicitly say RPM should be used. With Red Hat 10 the path to the file link command (ln) changed and DNF...
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Submitted

    Files with only ctime changes treated as unchanged by Storage Protect, creating a mismatch in mmbackup’s summary. Adding the unchanged count into Storage Protect and mmbackup’s comparison prevent “skipped files” messages.

    mmbackup builds its candidates files if there is just change in ctime. However, some files may have a modified ctime even when no metadata or data changes have actually occurred.For such files, if the IBM Storage Protect server already has the lat...
    21 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    SnapDiff-Support for ONTAP 9.18

    Could you please add Snapdiff support for ONTAP version 9.17 and 9.18? https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/154613
    about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Planned for future release

    Allow Backup-Archive Client on Windows 11 Environment with Cloud Only (Azure) users

    As stated from IBM Support, Azure Users are not supported: Currently, the Spectrum Protect (TSM) Backup-Archive Client fails to run on Windows 11 if the cloud only user (Azure) is not a local administrator, even when added to the "Backup Operators...
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    Predictable handling of encrypted EXT4 directories on Linux

    For now the error when accessing an encrypted EXT4 directory by the backup client can be ignored by a setting in dsm.sys (see support case). But this leads to the effect, that an encrypted directory will be considered in a backup if the encryption...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    IBM Storage Protect Client Installation/upgrade in Windows environment Windows System should not reboot to take effect

    This is regarding a customer query related to the IBM Storage Protect BA Client on the Windows platform. When an end user installs or performs a version upgrade of the Storage Protect BA Client, the installation process currently triggers a Window...
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    configure SP API so that traffic uses client-side encryption without an explicit call from the API client

    Customers require the ability to secure data from storage protect/spectrum protect server administrative staff. Currently, this can only be done by enabling client-side encryption. For API clients, encryption is only enabled if the client software...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    User/owner name should be again a part of the backup information (ISP Server Database table backups/archives column “owner”)

    After upgrading the ISP Client from 7.1.x to Version 8.1.8, the configuration on the DB2 Server is not compatible anymore.The instance owner as user is not presented on the Spectrum protect server backup/archive table(s) anymore and we would need ...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

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