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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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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...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

cert_distribute.sh script should allow customers to input a list of client nodes

In the current implementations, the cert_distribute.sh shell script at levels 8.1.21 and 8.1.22 queries the Storage Protect server for all its Storage Protect client nodes, does some filtering to select only supported platforms, and then will asso...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Provide support for COS WORM (and other S3 or BLOB equivalent WORM features)

Multiple customers and BPs have requested that Spectrum Protect supports the WORM functionality in S3 offload, be that the COS specific or the general S3 protocol WORM functionality. While not specifically required it also seems prudent to extend ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Planned for future release

We would like to store all our archive data on a S3 AWS cold tier target.

We have a use case in our environment for sending our archive data to a cloud container pool that would exist on the Spectra Logic BlackPearl device that supports AWS cold tier functionality. With an S3 cold tier cloud container option we would no...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

Directory-container stgpool protection using cloud-container stgpools

A directory-container storage pool can not be protected by using a cloud-container storage pool, neither via the PROTECTstgpool nor the PROTECTLOCalstgpools options. It would make sense to allow a directory-container storage pool to be protected t...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

A function is required for directory container pools to balance the fill level of multiple storage pool directories

A function is required for directory container pools to balance the fill level of multiple storage pool directories, especially when an additional storagepool directory is added.Otherwise the Move Container scripts must be generated and started dy...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

RETENTION SET migration from older TAPE format to newer format or Cloud

Data outlives the hardware technology when storing RETENTION SETS for 5 years or more. Being able to efficiently migrate from old to new media type would prove our dedication to the data and increase the longevity of our product.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

Improve disk to tape data migration by allowing multiple threads to read data from disk in parallel

Spectrum Protect (SP) server data migration performance from disk to tape is limited by the data throughput reading data from disk. In this situation the SP server was reading data from disk (flash) with about 90MB/sec.The SP server internal instr...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

Node Replication for NDMP Node

Node Replication for NDMP Node feature in not available in Spectrum Protect Server
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Improve performance when retrieving partial tapes by using RAO/oRAO on supported tape drives

IBM Enterprise tape drives (TS1140/3592-E07 onwards) supports Recommended Access Order (RAO). LTO-9 drives supports Open Recommended Acces Order (oRAO). This feature allows a tape drive to advise an application on the optimum retrieval order based...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

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