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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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speed up PROTECT STGPOOL to local tape

The PROTECT STGPOOL to local tape is way too slow. In a sample environment with quite powerful hardware we only achieve around 200 GB/hour of througput with PROTECT STGPOOL while on the same server BACKUP STGPOOL from other non-container pools run...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

speed up backup stgpool for file pools with dataformat=nonblock

On a SP server, we have lots of data from a CM8 environment, e.g. very many small files. About half of it from ICC and the other half from d3. 99% of this data is stored in FILE pools with DATAFORMAT=NONBLOCK because otherwise SP would cause a sto...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

Support tiering from cloud to directory container storage pools

Currently, SP only supports tiering data from a directory container storage pools to cloud container storage pools. Once your data has moved to the cloud, you won't be able to move it back. The only way to do this is by destroying (!) your data in...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Tape optimized inline copy on filelist backup for HSM managed filesystems

We have a IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) file system which is HSM managed using the IBM Spectrum Protect for Space Management client. In addition we are using the IBM Spectrum Protect backup/archive client to backup those data, driven by the mmbackup t...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

move retention data from one storage pool to another

It's not currently possible to move retention data from one storage pool to another. It is possible to move retention data to different volumes in the same storage pool. LTO9 tape volumes. That said, this might be a little more difficult to do wit...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

SP move data out of CLOUD containers

Once TSM/SP data ends up in a CLOUD pool, there is no way to every move it anywhere else. We should be able to move data out of a cloud pool. MOVE NODADATA might be relevant, but would only work if you could specify source and destination pools. T...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

RENAME DEVCLASS

We have to rename some tape based DEVICE CLASSES for organizational reasons.Unfortunately, there is no RENAME DEVCLASS command defined. The DEVICE CLASSES mentioned have storage pools with large amounts of archive data (many PB)with expiration tim...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Document update to be more precise in what is not supported

In the Spectrum Protect Server document, "Configuring clustered environments" section, there is a line below. > You can use other cluster products with IBM Spectrum Protect; however, documentation is not available and support is limited. https:...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Tag/Label backup sessions as well as backup/archive records.

Because of the Spectrum Protect way to register the backups/archive, it is challenging to track the backups.  For example, when customers lunch a multi-thread backup (DB, Files, Mail, VM), it is difficult to identify what kind of backup it is...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 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...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

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