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TSM for System Back-up and Recovery

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IBRIX file system type shown as "unknown" when we do q fi command from DSMC prompt

IBIRX file system should show its type as 'Ibrix' rather than un known file system when we do a do q fi command from DSMC prompt
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

TSM support for OCFS2 file system ACLs

We are using Suse Enterprise Linux 11 with SP1 using a native active/active HA clustering. SuSE only supports OCFS2 as the active/active file system but TSM is not supporting this file system for backup and recovery.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

Support for TSM Sysback V6.1 to back up VIO servers

I would like TSM Sysback to be usable for the backup of VIO servers, and not just the virtual AIX clients running on these VIO servers. These VIO servers, which are AIX based, can then have their backups implemented on a nightly basis in the same ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

Re-Map Volume Location

It would be beneficial to be able to offline a volume in a storage pool, for example your backuppool. Then at the OS level be able to manually move or copy the volume to a new physical location, log back into the TSM service and run a update vol t...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

On W2008R2 TSM doesn't provide same functionality as Microsoft WBAdmin utility to restore specific file from Systemstate BCK.

When using TSM V6.2 on W2008R2, *.exe files are backup as part of System State Backup.With TSM V6.2, it is not possible to perfrom RESTORE of specif file/s from the System State Backup.Using Microsoft utility WBAdmin to perform the Backup, it is p...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

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