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My votes: Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Replication of Larger file systmes from COS

Hi Mitul, I have the answer now for the difference between client restore from cloud vs replication from cloud 1: the normal restore from the cloud was making use of the chunk cache and async read. Those tools can in some cases make the restore fr...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Add a administrative socket to the SP server

Add a administrative socket to the dsmserv process, or a alternative way to send commands to the running process at the local system.Using the the dsmadmc is relay hard for scripting and always needs password to be specified.A socket is simple to ...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

prioritize free space balancing in container storage pool directories more efficiently

For example: rather than filling some directories up to 100% while leaving others at 40%, have all directories at 60%Currently experiencing an ongoing issue for over 1 year where directories are maxing out at 100% full because it fills them up wit...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Tiring by occupancy

Add the ability to define tiring rule, that takes node occupancy into account.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

To hold expiration for particular version of VM snapshot backup copy on Backup server

Currently we are facing issue to retain particular date's backup copy of the VM snapshot. For example: There is an request from customer to perform a file-level restore from VM snapshot from oldest copy. If its Unix VM, OS team takes sometime to c...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

TSM reports RC4 rather than RC12 Failed when an NFS volume mounts okay, but permission to underlying directories is denied

NFS share backup scheduled backup not reporting a failure when TSM server cannot back up directory due to permission denied. The event table reports the schedule with a return code 4. The permission to the underlying directories (NetApp qtrees) mo...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect LDAPUser Automated Password Updates

We require a LDAPUser interfaces with AD to obtain automated password update or maybe uses a token solution for regular automated password updates to the Spectrum Protect Servers.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Problem with EXCLUDE/INCLUDE Backup (Option SET FORCE=NO)- overwrite global exclude/include to some local server

Hello LABS,it would be important to notify IBM Labs Spectrum Protect to put a check on the "define clientopt" command which signals the warning message if you want to set the FORCE = NO / YES option with the option_name = INCLEXCL or DOMAIN, it si...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Can not replicate nodes based on policy domain membership

IBM Spectrum Protect Server v8.1.9.300:Can not replicate nodes based on policy domain membership Currently, the replicate node command works on node names, lists of node names, wildcards of node names, node groups, or lists of node groups. We wish...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Administraive user on Filer

for clustured-data ONTAP NetApp filers, the only capability that is required is ontaoapi with the admin role
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration