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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Migration process should skip locked files

Under certain conditions, the TSM server will try to migrate volumes that are locked by client backup sessionsl and simply wait for the volume to free up. This happens on a long-running (slow) backdup, or when a session does not terminate properly...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM Clean Frequency enhancement

Please allow a terabyte option in addition to gigabytes for the clean frequency for tape drives.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect server activity log to show detailed file restore and tape volume.

Hi Team, As a requirement for auditing we would like to have the server actlog show the file restore in detail and the tape volume it was restored. At the moment we have to restore from the client using restore/pick option and screen shot to...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Functionality already exists

Enhancement to OC when removing monitored server

Removing a spoke from hub causes error when custom report is defined for removed server. It would be useful to inform user about this or disable the report automatically. It would also be useful to be able to remove spoke from hub via OC.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TSM q proc command should show the node name or volume name which is processing

Whe the copy process for storagepool is running, i have no information which node is processing. I can happen, that 1 of x copy process is running much longer then other. The reason is, that on disk pool the copy process is working on node. It can...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

NDMP Support for Dell FluidFS with Spectrum Protect

The Dell FluidFS 8600 supports NDMP 2/3/4 and appears to work with Spectrum Protect backup/restore node. Please add this as a formally supported NDMP enabled device family.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Re-instate prereq check script in 7.1 install

In the 6.3 installation tar file there was a pre-req check script. This is no longer available in 7.1. please re-instate the functionality
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM aware of VTLs features (dedup and replication)

Copying client data using node replication requires a lot of bandwidth and many customers don´t want to use TSM dedup since they already have dedup atVTL levels (protectier and datadomain). It would be great if TSM server could be aware of VTL rep...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Periodic Backup of Backed up Data (Monthlies etc)

If a TSM administrator needs to take periodic, i.e. weekly, monthly, half year, year end additional copies of data other than 'file/unstructured' the administrator must currently create additional schedules to take additional copies. A lot of envi...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

TSM replication process duration

I think a duration parameter will be great with the replication process of TSM. Duration also exist with expiration, reclamation so why not implement this also with replication
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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