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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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    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 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 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 ...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 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 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    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 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Planned for future release

    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...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

    Node Replication for NDMP Node

    Node Replication for NDMP Node feature in not available in Spectrum Protect Server
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    Backup database to s3/cloud - support for immutability

    Cloud container pool has support for immutability and if you store data there, it makes sense to also be able to store the database backup in cloud with immutability. Currently, database can be stored in cloud, but no immutability.
    9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

    "Cancel Process all" command in Spectrum protect

    Would be great if "cancel process all" command in TSM/Spectrum Protect is introduced.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under 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 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Future consideration

    Support immutable object storage with retention sets to object (retention pools)

    Immutable object storage features, such as AWS Object Lock or COS Retention Vaults is supported for object/cloud container pools, but NOT supported for object retention pools. This request is to support immutable object storage for retention sets ...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

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