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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Support tiering from cloud to directory container storage pools

Currently, SP only supports tiering data from a directory container storage pools to cloud container storage pools. Once your data has moved to the cloud, you won't be able to move it back. The only way to do this is by destroying (!) your data in...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Avoid dropping instance while upgrade

Upgrading to current IBM Spectrum Protect Version drops instance during installation in silent mode although settings in responsefile to not touch/update the DB were set.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

make copies of existing Backupsets: either to go from Lto2 to lto4 media; and/or make duplicates for redundancy/DR issues!

make copies of existing backupsets to move the backupset from LTO2 to LTO4 tape media; to have reduntant backupsets(DR reasons) without having to issue the backupset command twice since the available creation time will not allow entering the same ...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Tape optimized inline copy on filelist backup for HSM managed filesystems

We have a IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) file system which is HSM managed using the IBM Spectrum Protect for Space Management client. In addition we are using the IBM Spectrum Protect backup/archive client to backup those data, driven by the mmbackup t...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Cancel sess node=XXXXXX

Add extra functionality to the existing command: Cancel session nodename=XXXXX Cancel sess whereplatform=XXXXXX Perhaps a preview option could als be added. This functionality could be a huge improvement in Enterprise Environments. Sometimes you w...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

allow audit of copy-container pools

Some customers demand proof-read of tape based storage pools on a regular basis. We have used AUDIT VOLUME for this purpose even though its primary purpose is to check consistency of data but by doing that, it also reads all data from the tapes. B...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Avoid filespace lock used by export server/node

Tivoli Storage Server supports export node/export server functionality which is used e.g. for data migration. During the export process the filespace ,currently identifying files to export, is locked. The ability to avoid locking the filespace was...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Secure server_console account in spectrum protect

Server_Console account is not password protected which is a fail safe account in spectrum protect and need full privilege for this account. We can reduce privilege for this account; however, it will remove this account purpose which is a fail-safe...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Provide container pool data protection on same SP instance on disk/NAS devices

Container pool (directory pool) data protection on the same SP instance is currently only supported to tape devices (or VTL). We would require to protect data and store it on a NFS device mounted on to the same SP instance. Moreover the SP instanc...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Red Hat Pacemaker Cluster Services support with IBM Spectrum Protect

IBM Services have many enterprise customers with regulatory requirements that requires high availability (HA) on all IBM Spectrum Protect servers that handle critical data both at on-premise data center as remote data centers. In cases where HA is...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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