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Spectrum Protect for Databases

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Multiple COPY backup types for TDP for SQL

Currently there is one database backup type for daily backups (full/differential) and one for copy backups. DBAs often require backups to be held for other retentions, and this currently can only be done by creating multiple TSM nodes. Additionall...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

TDP for Oracle Parallel Backup to Multiple TSM Servers

Backup/restore performance in TSM TDP environments can be increased through the addition of TSM servers that rman uses for backups and restores. A solution that does not require manual scripting would make this functionality easier to use and offl...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

filespace capacity and utilization should reflect allocated and used space in the databases protected

Today it is not possible to check capacity and utilization of the databases protected, as the filespaces is not updated with the figures tsm: TSMGOT15>q fil ORAPREEDB01_ORACLE f=D Node Name: ORAPREEDB01_ORACLE Filespace Name: /orapreedb01_gpcal...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Post all TSM Linux application and dbms backup agents into RPM Linux repository

Place all linux-based TSM clients into a standard linux repository, so updates can be performed using standard linux system tools. This repository would need to be publicly accessible, although they can be secured with a login.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

report if backup was deduped by client

If the client de-duplication has been enabled for a given node, but the estimated size is bigger than:tsm: TSMWAR01>q opt *deduptx* Server Option Option Setting------------------------- -----------------------------------ClientDedupTxnLimit 1,0...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

GUI for TDP ORACLE backup and restore

have a GUI for ORACLE TDP RMAN backups.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

Oracle Linux OS support for TSM Data Protection for Oracle

Client asks about official support for TSM Data Protection for Oracle, installed on Oracle Linux x64
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

TDP support for Microsoft SQL Server Express

We have several customer with a mix of Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008/2012 and editions express, standard and enterprise.To keep it simple we are using tdp to backup the sql servers. Sadly SQL Server Express isn't supported.It looks like the backu...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

TSM for Databases clients not restorable from backupsets

Currently if you use TSM for Databases to backup your databases you can't use backupsets because the restoring of the data doesn't work. Currently if you want to have a database backup included in a backupset you need to create a separate dump fro...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

Deletion of TDPSQL Legacy Backups

The ability to delete a specific Legacy backup at least through the CLI
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Not under consideration

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