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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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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...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Dedupdelete in error

Dedup delete Always get In error state? : YesCurrent return code : 1021 This is when expire inventory runs
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

renaming filepool volumes

Filepool volumes are named after their location in the filesystem and the name of the file. It is impossible to move such files in OS to another location, because it's not "renameable". The only possible way is, to move data in it via TSM, which c...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Adding an information and steps to configure NAS option "tape.reservations" in the TSM Administrator's Guide

Tivoli Storage Manager server tape labels may be overwritten during dismount of tape if the NetApp NAS option "tape.reservations" is not set to persistent. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21419980
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Is a defect

tsm server command 'perform libaction' to use tape drive serial number as tape drive name

would like to be able to use the perform libaction command to define new/updated drive/path configuration and use the device serial number as the device name. perform libaction library1 action=define device=/dev/smc0 drivename=serialno
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Enhance Backup Stgpool to Limit Processing per Node or Filespace

With TSM 6.4, deduplication works to limit the amount of data stored for a TSM server and its clients. It is however, limited to the stgpool layer. If one wants to do 'backup stgpool' or 'replicate node' (exclusively), it's not possible to tier th...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

reconcile volumes behaviour with server delete grace times

The behavior of the reconcile volumes command should be changed to take into account server deletion grace time settings. Reconcile volumes command should not report errors when archive files for deleted source virtual volumes are still present on...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Is a defect

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