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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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    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...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Change QUERY OCCUPANCY to show the number of files backed up for each node/filespace in a directory container storage pool.

    Currently QUERY OCCUPANCY returns the number of 10GB fragments associated with each file/object. So if a file is 54GB in size it will report this under QUERY OCCUPANCY six files; where five fragments occupy 10GB, and one as 4GB. As a customer the ...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Update Cloudstoragepool to make it immutable.

    Hello Currently S3 immutable and immutable COS is supported but its only with define stgpool but its not supported do update current stgpool to make it immutable. Since S3 allow changes now, can we please have an update stgpool with enabledatalock?
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Support for native velero backup to Storage Protect using the S3 Object Agent

    In case of a non-OpenShift container environment, native Velero implementation can be used to backup containerized applications. Velero is able to write the backups to an S3 target, for which the Object Agent from the Storage Protect can be used.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Planned for future release

    Session status failed -99 received before schedule duration not ended

    Hello, Description: Please be informed that when some SP client is reboot (Because OS patching) during the backup, SP server report event "failed -99". 6/12/24, 22:23:34 ANR0480W Session 2335563 for node [Node_name] (Linux x86-64) terminated - con...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Provide options within SP to use SCSI commands to work with the tape operations, like mount a tape, unmount a tape, move tape from one slot to another etc

    This is required for day to day operations, and this option is pretty much available with all other backup product vendors Refer - https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100022873 IBM case Ref - Case: TS016303198 (ibm.com)
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Functionality already exists

    LDAP Group Authorization for ADMIN users

    IBM Storage Protect is actually the only product in our environment that is not allowing to map LDAP groups to specific authorization levels. How should this work?You would for example define on the SP server in dsmserv.opt the LDAP url including ...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Add a timeout to the MIGRATE STGPOOL command

    Every day, we encounter migration processes that are waiting for access to an input file that is busy. Examples of waiting processes (stgpool FER.FILE is devclass=FILE): 63 Migration Volume /sppool/fer3/003CFCB3.BFS (storage pool FER.FILE), Moved ...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Storage Agent write to cloud container

    Would be very useful to allow a storage agent to write directly to an on-prem or off-site cloud bucket. In larger environment this would help spread the load and improve backup performance. Then allow the Storage agent to read from on-prem S3 and ...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    File list limited for 1000 lines using restore node commnad

    Hi team, we are using restore node NODE_NAME /FS FILELIST=FILE:/list_files_in_HEX.txt nametype=HEXadecimal. We are restoring data from NAS node. Customer is using France Diacritics in DIR and File names which impact filler on NAS side. Filler is u...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

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