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My votes: Spectrum Protect (Server)

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More granularity for Retention Rule

To be able to choose directory(ies) in Retention Rule to have more flexibility. Most of the time, needs are to create a retention set on specific directory, not all the filespace.SP well know all the backed up directories and files from a node. Th...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Support for ROCE Tape drives in ISP

Hello, If ISP would support ROCE tape drives like TS1155/TS1160 this would deliver following advantages:- ISP could run in a VM and support Tape which is currently not possible with FC Tape drives due to Fibrechannel limitations. - ROCE attached t...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

Allow copy storage rules to select only active data AND to allow selection of from-date and to-date for copy to tape in fully hydrated tape copies.

This is useful because starting from scratch and trying to copy multiple inactive as well as the active copy of extremely large data backups (for example Epic databases) to tape for hydrated copies takes an extremely long time. The library is unav...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

NDMP - NAS backups - Encrypted communications with TLS 1.2/3

Required to secure communications in line with all other client server operations
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

More control options for a running restore without having to abort it. (dynamically change timeout value, ...)

Spectrum Protect has several time out values to detect „sick, but not dead“ situations and for a good reason actively terminates sessions when specified time out value has been reached.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Add support for tape media partitioning

With the ever increasing capacity of tape volumes collocation by node wastes more and more space for smaller nodes. Switching to collocation by group is not an option for us as we have thousands of nodes that are not in our direct control so we do...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect - stgrule subrule, allow groups to be specified and not just clients

stgrule subrule - allow groups and/or wildcards to be used for subrules. For example, at the moment I have 500 clients, some I want to tierbystate and some tierbyage. To keep my setup simple, I have one staging pool which tiers to one cloud pool. ...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

EXCLUDE.DIR Command for archive operations

My client is trying to archive and doesn't want to archive an entire directory (including subdirectories) In backup operations, there is a command that is exclude.dir through which that directory is not included in the copy. We wanted to request t...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Postspone client issued delete backup commands from API and/or BA clients

Whenever a client that has 'deletebackup=yes' submitts a delete data request, this request should be queued for deletion pending approval from admin or executed after a few days. Maybe a optional field on the node 'DeleteDelay (days)'
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Nodes with retention sets require to have dedicated metadata to be replicated to target server void expiration of data

Hi Team, i having issue in performance on Source TSM server due to TSM DB size is more than 13TB in size, so my management requested to split current TSM server with Multiple server (2 new TSM server). So by moving Filesystem backup for top 40serv...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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