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Spectrum Protect for Databases

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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

Detail results not appearing when using proxy for backup

The backups are working properly, but Operations Center does not graph results from proxy node backups. Operations Center version as 7.1.3TSM Server version as 7.1.3.0. Found hits pointing to DOC APAR IT07424, which indicates that this is a known ...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Using Powershell DataSpaceUsage in TDPSQL breaks fundamental requirements

TDP for Databases (MSSQL) makes use of powershell API call "DataSpaceUsage" prior to executing the Backup Log command to the virtual tape interface. The resulting query against the database allocation unit structures suffers from blocking while se...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

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

Clength limit of each option is 1790 characters

Customer needs to use the command line for some restores and faces the error bellow: Failed - Error: RC: 1924 ACO6205E The tdpsqlc command that was entered exceeds the maximum length limit.The length limit of each option is 1790 characters.exists
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

TSM fails taking backups of Informix.

When customer take a backup from TSM for Informix , the backup fails, they checked the problem and informix get locks.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

TDP for SQL option limitation.

When initiating a full backup of all the databases, tdpsqlc.exe crashes with this error:ACO6205E The tdpsqlc command that was entered exceeds the maximum length limit. The length limit of each option is 1790 characters.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Is a defect

Ability to save RMAN backup as archive objects instead of backup

In order to not rely on Oracle DBA to purge old backups, it would be very helpfull to be able to store RMAN backups as archive objects, which have a predetermined lifetime. Even though the Oracle backup udtility might expect to have some data whic...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

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