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TSM for System Back-up and Recovery

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The backup not continue after detect this problem: ANS1028S An internal program error occurred

The backup not continue after detect this problem: ANS1028S An internal program error occurred. Detail error reported is: . 2012-03-24 12:11:57 ANS9999E ntrc.cpp(768): Received Win32 RC 1235 (0x000004d3) from FileRead(): ReadFile '\\cluster32\n$\G...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Planned for future release

Need of dsmadmc command to query "SET ACCESS" grants

I would like to have the possibility to query "SET ACCESS" grants for all nodes and users from dsmadmc client like the single client user can do by dsmc client and command "QUERY ACCESS" for its own grants. I can do this kind of query connecting d...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

Change in order for the TSM6.3 Restore process of WORM enabled File system

Issue: IBM TSM (non NDMP) is used to take backup of WORMed/Retained file, it backs up file content and also backs up the Xattr “ibrix.virtual.retention_state” along with the value of the Xattr. Now, when IBM TSM restores a retained/WORMed file on ...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 5 Not under consideration

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

image backup support for Solaris 10 ZFS filesystem

image backup support for Solaris 10, ZFS file system
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 4 Not under consideration

de-duplication performance improvement request

TSM de-duplication function is supposed to make back-up area more efficient,but it is slower than it was expected.(100GB/h was expected but actual is 10GB/a day)So duplicate data isn't erased and DISK almost ran out of space.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Is a defect

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.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

Need TSM Client 6.3 and 64-bit API support in Sysback

We use Tivoli Storage Manager for System Backup and Recovery (aka Sysback) to backup and restore rootvg for our AIX servers. Sysback has always required the TSM Client 32-bit API for operation. Beginning with TSM Client 6.3, there will no longer b...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Planned for future release

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