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Spectrum Protect for Databases

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TSM for DB - SQL Scalability Enhancement for Large SQL Cluster Environments at Providence Health

Please Note Jim Smith may have further detail seeing how he was on the call with the customer when the customer expressed their concerns. 1) When you have a Cluster with More than a single SQL server running on it, you need either multiple TSM sch...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

FB4WKSCDP auto register using TSM as remote storage

When running the FB4WKS CDP and using a TSM server as the remote storage device, you have to manaully register the host name before the backups will run.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 4 Not under consideration

TDP for MS SQL FCM GUI multiple DB instances

The FCM GUI of newest TDP Version works only with default dsm.opt.The older GUI could be started with CLI Option: tdpsqlc /tsmoptfile="<path>\dsm.opt".This function is not available for flashcopymanager.exe!Please refer to my Supportcase 134...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 4 Planned for future release

Change of compression method in TSM Client API

Background:The backup takes too long time (did not complete within backup window).The restore and recovery takes too long time. They investigated if compression of the SQL Server data can help to fulfill the backup and restore time, and figured ou...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 5 Not under consideration

TSM Client side deuplication effectiveness compromised by local cache file locking

Currently, attempts to perform multiple database backups concurrently from a dataserver instance registered to a single TSM node name with client side deupe enabled will fail with ANS7903W. We have been advised that there are two ways to work arou...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

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