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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Allow data-lock cloud containers to be reclaimed

I would like to have the feature "Reclaim Containers" available when using datalock stgpools. Looking at my SPOC console, I will have 263.3TB of data that could be reclaimed from my cloud storage pool. Since this is not supported because I'm using...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Support replication of Retention Set information as well as the data

At present, retention rules and retention sets that are defined on the source replication server are not replicated to the target server. Only the data in the retention sets is replicated. This is a problem, in that should the source server be los...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Easy change certificate on S3 storage agent

Today the S3 Agent certifikate is catched from the default certifikation on sp server at the the installation of s3 agent. It's not possible to add a new certifikate to the s3 agent certificate store. To change the certificate you must deinstall t...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Multiple Storage Protect Server DB backup on one tape

Currently SP only supports storing one internal DB backup per volume. If using tape (as recommended) e.g. LTO9 this results in using a 18 TB tape volume for storing only 100 GB database backup. Running 20 instance and doing 2 DB backup per day kee...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Testar compatibilidade versão 9.7.1.0 do Isilon OneFS NDMP com TSM Client

Testar compatibilidade versão 9.7.1.0 do Isilon OneFS NDMP com TSM Client com o Storage Protect 8.1.16 or posterior. Tivemos TS018215491 Quando vamos escolher o restore pela opção [ point in Time ] o mesmo da erro: ANS309E remote operation failed ...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Enhance Spectrum Protect to use Tapefunction Recomended Access Order for repair stg Containerpool from Tape.

The current support of tapefunction in Protect has more then one gaps in the area off use tape storage. The main concerns are the support of tape in the relation to containerstg. These current designs generate a alongated repair time if we want to...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Add security certificate expiration date to "query status" output

Current options for viewing security certificate include an actlog entry when the server is started and an option to toggle on an ANR message for every session. Having the expiration date in the query status output would make an easy way for custo...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Migrate/Tier older data from containerpool to tape

Hello, we use large file pools for our backups, these pools store a number of days of backups, then older/cold data get migrated to tape.Currently we have some severe pains with the file pools when migration is done to a collocated storagepool, se...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Native support for Spectrum protect Server HA on RHEL cluster

Toyota Kirloskar Motor Ltd (TKML) has recently changed there Spectrum protect server from AIX to RHEL. Customer was using Power HA based high availability solution for Spectrum protect server previously and now is expecting the same capability on ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Automate scan and fix of "unavailable" containers for Spectrum Protect servers

Today I found that a number of vm's did not backup snapshots to the (container based) storage pool. This happened before and points to the error: ANS9351E Data was not available on server and was skipped. Processing snapshot ----------------------...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Future consideration

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