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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Encrypted NDMP backups

Support of encrypting storage pools used for NDMP backups.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

devclass with new nocheck parameter

Hi, I need a library or devclass parameter which will override the necessary volume mount (and the label check) on the server in a storage agent environment. I would be very nice to install a virtual central tsm server without san and storage agen...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

capacity calculation with file pool and private volumes

Hi, i need a devclass file parameter which will influence the calculation of free space in file pools. I implement file pools with private volumes only. The maxscratch parameter is null. It works very fine but the space calculation is very bad. Th...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Prevent massive Tape cleaning requests after Tape read error

When a Tape read error occurs, TSM loads the tape to another Tape drive and issues a cleaning request for the first drive. This process will be repeated for all remaining tape drives.TSM should discover this situation and mark the tape as unreadab...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

new authority class "QUERY" for query and select privilege

In order to restrict the query and select commands for all the administrators having only client owner authority I put "QUERYAuth<br /> Storage" in dsmserv.opt. In order to monitor the server activity, I    have defined the ad...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Tivoli Storage Manager Preempts

For TSM server preempts, I suggest that restores should always be able to preempt along with server database backups and should not be turned off with the NOPREEMPT option. Even better, develop several levels of preempts that allow a finer control...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Backupset Enhancements 222

Backupsets as Rapid Restore Archives (RRA) contain active data only. This means it drops data unlike competitors where a version is created and then deleted, it is not archived. This is counter-intuitive. If a point-in-time policy greater than 31 ...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Force override of profiles from configuration manager

Whenever the configuration manager fails to update on targets, an admin should be able to either force the profile to a target, or on the target allow replacement. To reenable subscription is a long process where ALL nodes must be moved to tempora...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Expiration only backup

Would like to have the ability to run an expiration scan on a client. We currently have to back up some clients with millions of files - due to ram limitations we are using a filelist. With that expiration does not occur. Would it be possible to r...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

NDMP virtualfs mapping to single file e.g. a LUN

During use of NetApp Snapmanager technology there exists clones of LUNs into the same volume for testing or developing. During backup the wish exists only to backup the production LUN and not the other one. That is not possible because virtualfs m...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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