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Spectrum Protect (Server)

Add parallelism when replicating data stored on tape

When using node replication with data stored on tape, the SP replication process is single threaded. This means that only a single tape drive will be used when replicating a node even if there are many free/available tape drives in the tape librar...
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Spectrum Protect Container Storage Pool Storage Space Reduction

Bosch is requesting a Spectrum Protect server administrative command which allows the administrator to reclaim container storage pool space including deletion of empty volumes from the file system.In an optimal implementation, the administrative c...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Future consideration

Non-blocking Storage Protect server audit library

Today, when a Storage Protect server requires to run AUDIT LIBRARY on a SCSI library, all Storage Protect server activities on that SCSI library needs to be stopped. Means, processes and sessions already using the SCSI library its tape drives need...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

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...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Under review

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

ACL support for Spectrum Scale file systems

Spectrum Protect does fully support Spectrum Scale filesystems. If special attributes of files in this file systems aremodified like setting or changing ACLs, on the next backup run thecomplete file will be backed up again, though only metadata wh...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Future consideration

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 ...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Under review

Multi session restore from container pool should result in load balanced sessions

Technote http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21993961 documents how to tweak the SDNQRSESSSIZE parameter for multi session restores, however the sessions created are not load balanced. This can result in the restore sessions not being...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Not under consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Under review

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

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