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TSM for System Back-up and Recovery

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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

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...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Planned for future release

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

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
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 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.
almost 13 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.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration