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TSM for System Back-up and Recovery

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tsm and ilmt agent for ubuntu ppc64le

We are starting using free linux distros like ubuntu to provide several services to our customers. We run ubuntu on ibm i power hardware.It would be nice to use also tsm for backup on this machines and also have subcapicity support on ubuntu os. s...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Not under consideration

Support TSM Sysback for VIO Servers

Currently the only way to take a backup of a VIO server is by using the backupios command. We use Sysback (Tivoli Storage Manager for Sysback Backup and Recovery) for all of our AIX hosts. We would like to use the same product for our VIO servers....
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

Client Deployment Request

I understand it is a requirement of automatic client deployment that clients contact the server on the address as configured by the SERVERHLADDRESS. In our environment, the SERVERHLADDRESS set on the TSM Server cannot be contacted by the client be...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 6 Not under consideration

Can we have the option to add multiple TEC(Omnibus) hosts to dsmserv.opt (TSM)

Can we have ability to add multiple TEC(Omnibus) servers to the dsmserv.opt file in TSM
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

Keep alive packets

I would like the client and server to send and answer keep alive packets on the main restore connection so that stateful firewalls will not time out the connection when the restore takes a long time due to many tape mounts or other reasons. It's o...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Not under consideration

possibility to tag all tcp/ip package with QoS tags

We have problems that the backup and recoveries has an impact of business traffic on remote locations.Especially if the backups and recoveries takes so long time that they exceed backup window and extend on to normal business hours.
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

provide tsm sysback support for aix vios servers

we would like to see tivoli tsm sysback support so we could backup/restore aix vios servers
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

TSM EIF events to multiple EIF targets

TSM requires the ability of directing the TSM event feed to two or more EIF targets for resilience. Target can be any listener capable of receiving EIF events
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

TSM currently can recognized different file systems types. I woud like TSM by default to be able to recognize GFS2 file syste

TSM need to be able to recognize GFS2 file systems like it does with any other file system type seen by TSM. When TSM is installed and configured it should be able to see this file system with out any manually intervention. It should be a native s...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

IBM AIX SAS HBA support with HP branded LTO Tape drives.

We tried qualifying HP LTO5 & 6 SAS drives in our labs with AIX 6.1 & 7.1, but the OS would hang when we tried to discover them. No issue getting it to work with HP LTO FC drives, but fails wtih SAS drives using the IBM AIX SAS HBA.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

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