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Spectrum Protect for Mail

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Replication on Migration

Parameter for Storagepools to have a replication on migration instead of copy on migration.
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration

Restart Exchange 2010 backup session automatically

When the TDP for Exchange client password expires during the Exchange 2010 full backup running period, the backup sesion failed and can not be restarted as before (Exchange 2003 Lagacy). This caused our TSM admins have to rerun the Exchange 2010 f...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration

TDP Exchange 6.4 restore single mail with 2 account domain

Possible to restore the mailboxe from a domain (LU) on TDP 6.4.1 Exchange 2010 from a domain (APLLI).Should we have 2 accounts from the 2 domains LU and APPLI for the restoration of the Mailboxe ?
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration

Exchange 2010 GUI exclude active/passive

It would be useful to be able to exclude passive databases from gui backups for Exchange 2010 DAGs. Ideally by using a opt or cfg file exclude statement. currently you can exclude from cmdline with exclude flag - same requirements for gui.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

Tivoli Data Protection for 32bit Lotus Domino on 64bit Windows server

Would it be possible to build a combined TDP package for 32bit Lotus Domino on 64bit Windows server? This package was previously known as (x86_x64) for version 5 however it is not available for version 6
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration

In TDP for Mail v6.4 for Exchange, my customer refuse to see the data of the email when he use the Recovery by object view.

In TDP for Mail v6.4 for Exchange, my customer refuse to see the data of the email when he use the Recovery by object view.It is blocked by the security service. The data of the email is private.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration

Bypass VSS_E_MAXIMUM_NUMBERS_OF_VOLUMES_REACHED limitation on

We need a new feature to bypass the VSS Limit of 64 Volumes during the Backups.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration

Restartable TDP for Exchange Backup over a WAN connection

TDP for Mail Exchange Backup requires a Full Backup without interuption. In case of a WAN connection a transfer withous interuption might be impossible and no Exchange Full Backup is possible. It would be good to be able to restart a backup job.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration

new feature for Exchange 2010 Online Archive

I would to restore the ONLINE ARCHIVE MAILBOX, the new feature provided by Exchange 2010; Now we are able to restore this, but only including the restore of the entire database into a RECOVERY DATABASE and after this is only possible with a lot of...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

Exchange 2010 with DAG backup active/passive DBs

TSM for Mail is currently making a difference if a mailbox database is active or passive (Exchange 2010 using DAG). So for each kind of backup there will be kept the defined number of versions. (e.g. 7 Versions should be kept, so if the database i...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration

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