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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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new command to q options which differ from their default value

There are many options available for the SP server, documented as well as many undocumented server options. All have default values, some/many are adapted to specific environments. A new command would be helpful which displays all the options whic...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Under review

To use S3 (or Blob) object storage without tsm deduplication as primary storage pools.

We want to use S3 (or Blob) object storage without tsm deduplication, as similar as for DEFINE STGPOOL (Define a retention storage pool) with cloud device class, but for normal primary stgpool. Compression and encryption should be possible, but wi...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

enable all deviceclasses in "del volhist t=dbb" command

When removing dbbackups via deleting volumehistory there is no possibility of retaining certain older backups in other device classes. The "del volhist t=dbb" doesn't recognise non-server deviceclasses. This would be a welcome addition for enablin...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Under review

Improvement of SP command 'q job'

Hello IBM Here is my idea: It will be useful to be able to improve the command 'q job' such that it is possible to use the stgrule name as parameter, to just see the jobs for that particular stgrule. We are using many different stgrules, and today...
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

To have new command backup nodedata that copies the primary data of selected nodes to copy stgpools, independent of underlying primary storage pools.

Like the move nodedata can move data for special nodes we would like to have that for a backup nodedata that copies the primary data of selected nodes to copy stgpools. We would not need to create extra primary stgpools for driving backup stg but ...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Library initialization at SP Server startup needs improvement

When a Storage Protect server is starting up, it is querying the inventory of each tape library defined to this Storage Protect server. the Storage Protect server is using a 256KB buffer to store the inventory information returned by the tape libr...
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Support copy to Cloud Container Pool using STGRules

It's a very common use case to have one local backup of the data and for cyber resilience another air gaped copy on locked cloud storage. Unfortunately, this is currently not supported by Storage Protect. Please implement "Copy to Cloud Container ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Please redesign the AUDIT CONTAINER command and the storage rule so that lost chunks in an directory container storage pool volume are also detected and cleaned up.

For unknown reasons, lost chunks may remain unnoticed in the directory container storage pool.These lost chunks are currently not detected by any check such as the AUDIT CONTAINER command or the AUDIT CONTAINER storage rule.Currently, these lost c...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Update Certificate without restarting Storage Protect instance

Currently if the certificate is going to be replaced by a new one, this operation requires an instance stop and start. The certificate insertion into the certificate DB can be done at any time, also setting it as the default certificate. But the i...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Support of X-Amz-Content-Sha256:[STREAMING-UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD-TRAILER] in SP Object Agent

We backup up native Kubernetes workload with native Velero to SP Object Agent. Since Velero Version 1.13 the backup to SP Object Agent is not working anymore. Velero 1.14 uses AWS 1.10 plugins which internally uses X-Amz-Content-Sha256:[STREAMING-...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

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