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TSM for System Back-up and Recovery

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CAB extension support for TSM

Hi Dev, I wonder when TSM will support NDMP with CAB (Cluster aware backup) for Netapp cDOT? I have a bunch of netapp systems that I would like to backup with TSM and CAB but the IBM support told me it's not possible today. On page 53 in this neta...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 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
over 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
almost 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.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

JBB for ZFS client

The use of journal based back-up in an USS environment. In open systems and specific within the AIX client the use of journal based back-up is common practice. Since we are dealing with a "standard" Unix environment within z/OS we would expect sta...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

For the CLI restore node command allow the client the option of not searching the "last full" first

I would like the option of when I do a restore of allowing TSM to skip the last full backup; particularly if the object[s] did not exist when the last full was performed and/or has been modified since.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Not under consideration

SYSBACK restore of multibos

Allow restores of MutiBOS AIX systems using TSM for Sysback
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Not under consideration

pmr 32294.499.000 - installing stg agent with NIM

The ablility to use NIM to push Tivoli client software to all AIX server (the way we use to be able to do it)
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

AIX equivalent to Windows "snapshotcachelocation" option when using TSM image backups on AIX clients

We are currently running TSM image backups, (e.g. dsmc image backup /disk01 -snapshotcachesize=10), but this sometimes fails because of lack of space available in the Volume Group. The problem is that when the backup runs it creates a new temporar...
over 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 ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 5 Not under consideration