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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Non-blocking Storage Protect server audit library

Today, when a Storage Protect server requires to run AUDIT LIBRARY on a SCSI library, all Storage Protect server activities on that SCSI library needs to be stopped. Means, processes and sessions already using the SCSI library its tape drives need...
16 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Storage Protect server encryption for sequential file storage pools

The Storage Protect server allows to use sequential file as a storage pool. The Storage Protect server does not allow to enable Storage Protect server internal encryption for sequential file. For security reasons, user data stored on Storage Prote...
16 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Storage Protect server compression for sequential file storage pools

The Storage Protect server allows to use sequential file as a storage pool. The Storage Protect server does not allow to enable Storage Protect server internal compression for sequential file. To safe disk space utilized by a Storage Protect serve...
16 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Lock a SP client node and all its backup and archive data to prevent changes and deletions

In case of a ransom ware attack, customer immediately locks affected Storage Protect Client nodes to prevent attacked nodes from accessing the Storage Protect server. This is done to prevent changes to the Storage Protect clients backup and to pre...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Enable Storage Protect server to write its database backups to two sites in parallel

For redundancy reasons, customers operate and replicate Storage Protect servers and user data in/ between multiple sites.A Storage Protect server is able today, to write user data ingested into the Storage Protect server to two storage pools in pa...
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Add parallelism when replicating data stored on tape

When using node replication with data stored on tape, the SP replication process is single threaded. This means that only a single tape drive will be used when replicating a node even if there are many free/available tape drives in the tape librar...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

possibility to add clients by nodegroup to copy storage subrule

Currently you can only add single clients to a copy storage subrule . It would be comfortable to also have the possibility to add clients by nodegroup as an additional choice - like you can do with "def retrule".
29 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Make pushing replication server info to client options file optional

Currently, when you setup replication from one SP server to another, the client options file (on the clients connecting to the "primary" server) gets updated, reflecting the fact there is indeed a replication server and what the hostname/IP addres...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Execute file rights need to be removed from AlwaysOn Servermon configuration files

For security reasons, execute file rights need to be removed from all AlwaysOn Servermon configuration files. IBM support confirmed that the execute file rights are not required and can be removed. Example: /opt/tivoli/tsm/server/bin/servermon# ls...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

It could be nice to have an option like maxsessionspernode in replicate node

The maxsession option in replicate node is for all node (when using with a nodegroup). So when a run a "replicate node maxsession=20" it could have up to 20 sessions for the last node, so it could have up to 20 filling volumes in the distant node....
20 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

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