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Spectrum Protect for Databases

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restore a merge replicated publisher database

Hello, i have restored with legacy backup a merge replicated publisher database.Than i saw, that the replication - Tables like "MSmerge_conflicts_info" wasn't restored.The Transact-SQL command "restore" (see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en- us/libra...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration

TDPO/RMAN and TSM archive

Hello,We use RMAN/TDPO to backup Oracle DB.I would like to be able to do a TSM archive of those data, but all data sent to TSM are only backup type.As I understood (please confirm) this issue should be addressed to TDPO side (not RMAN side).Thanks...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration

Not able to resolve the error code ANS2042W when symbolic link is created on different filesystem

Not able to resolve the error code ANS2042W when symbolic link is created on different filesystem
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

tdpoconf limitations when configuration TDP for oracle

TDPOCONF is limited as we cannot parse additional parameters when we run the password configuration. Ideally, it would be best if we could run tdpoconf password and automatically parse the password automatically within a script. This is a major ro...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Support for SQL Server Express Edition

Please support SQL Server Express Edition. Technically, this should be no different than Standard Edition.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration

SQL Log backup to report which DBs are excluded

When doing a MS-SQL log backup, DBs in simple mode are excluded from processing (which is good). However, it would be nice to get a list of which DBs are excluded in the report not only the # of excludes in order to be able to alert the DBAs of this.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration

TDP SQL V7.x- The 1790 character restriction was added in the 7.1 release of TDP

TDP SQL V7.x- The 1790 character restriction was added in the 7.1 release of TDP
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Not under consideration

Support TDP for Oracle on Red Hat 7

Setting up a new Oracle database server on Linux we cannot use Red Hat 7 as the OS because it is not supported with TDP for Oracle.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

TDPO RMAN Delete with honoring RETONLY parameter

Currrently if Oracle RMAN deletes a backup object, this object gets deleted immediately in TSM without honoring the RETONLY parameter in the backup copygroup. If a crazy Oracle admin deletes the original Oracle database and also run a RMAN delete ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

unable to take backups of a database using tdp 6.4.1 for SQL 2012 with always on node

Tsm server 6.4 qnd we are trying to take one backup in two different management classes using tdp sql 2012 with always on feature enabled. For tye second backup which should go to the new mgmt, it fails with the merge test. Because backup happens ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Not under consideration

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