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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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    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...
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Remove unecessary QUERY JOB errors from actlog due to running servermon

    When servermon is activated using the parameter ALWAYSONSERVERMON on, the message “ANR0213E QUERY JOB: No jobs found” appears in actlog every 10 minutes. This cannot be disabled, even if you delete or comment out the entry QUERY JOB FORMAT=detail ...
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

    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...
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    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

    AlwaysOn Servermon lslv lspv AIX commands need to be changed to prevent hang situations

    Today, the Storage Protect server AlwaysOn Servermon issues the following commands to gather information about AIX logical and physical volumes: lsvg -o | lsvg -illsvg -o | lsvg -ip lspv -l ... in a loop for all hdisks. We request to add -L option...
    2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    IBM Storage Protect™ for Mail: Data Protection for HCL Domino® 8.1.22 supports valid HCL Domino update the product to support the HCL Domino 14.5 version which was release back in June 2025..

    Being able to running the backup. Anyone who has HCL Domino 14.5 or planning to upgrade.
    22 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    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 ...
    8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Disaster recovery from Storage Protect backup pool for big file systems

    We are running multiple Storage Scale file systems in the multi Petabyte size. All data are in Storage Protect backup. The backup is very valuable in case of user driven data loss. But in the case of a disaster where the complete file system is lo...
    7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Storage Rule-COPY: hydrated tape copies directly on the Target pool by using copy storage rules

    We want to make copy of our Primary Disk based Directory Container pool into Replication server but directly on tape (hydrated tape copies), so we can directly be able to restore the data using BA client at our DR location as well as no need to re...
    23 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    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...
    6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Under review

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