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Spectrum Protect for Mail

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Exchange 2010 Single Item Recovery from the Exchange mailbox database

We are using Spectrum Protect Server: Spectrum Protect Server EE Version 7.1.8.1 OS Version Windows 2012 R2 Standard Exchange Server / Client Side: BA Client Version 7.1.1 FlashCopy Manager for Exchange Version: 4.1.1.0 TDP for Mail Version 7.1.1 ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

DP for Exchange GUI QoL enhancement during database recovery

During recovery of an Exchange database DP for Exchange GUI automatically configures "AllowFileRestore" flag in Exchange for this database.This will allow the database to be overwritten.During recovery user a presented with two dialog windows with...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

Progression of manual backup/restore in DP for Exchange GUI (Task Details)

We have had several customers complain that "Task Details" in DP for Exchange GUI are not updated until a task finishes.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration

Mailbox Restore Browser functionality for Exchange 2016

I would like the Mailbox Restore Browser functionality added for Exchange 2016
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Not under consideration

If a job does not find any db PASSIVE to be backed up, IT SHOULD NOT FAIL !

If a job does not find any db PASSIVE to be backed up, IT SHOULD NOT FAIL !
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 3 Is a defect

TSM for MAIL Exchange - DAG Passive DB not HEALTHY not backed up

It looks like 2 databases (one healthy and one unhealthy) need to be backed up, we skip the unhealthy one and back up the healthy one. Then we return success (RC = 0), because we backed up the healthy one successfully. This is by design. I think t...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Not under consideration

DP for Mail - Exchange: Backup multiple databases independently

Exchange database backup is launched as transaction from Exchange side of view - when all databases backup is started, databases are processed sequentially one-by-one. Until last database is backed up it is not possible to run LOG backup (type INC...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

Use a single GUID per machine in a TDPDOM WIN86 environment

Problem title GUID flapping (repeated ANR1639I messages) Environment: Product or Service: Data Protection for Domino Windows 7.1.W Component ID: 5698DPDAP VMware vSphere 5.5 U3 Windows 2008 R2 x64 Standard Edition Lotus Domino 8.5.2 FP4 x32 TSM se...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Is a defect

TSM for Mail for MS Exchange documentation needs a summary of communication paths/ports/credentials for VSS based backups

The setup and interaction between components in performing a VSS based Exchange backup is very complex, involving windows and Exchange credentials, TSM server node and Admin ID credentials, proxy authority, BA client services configuration, and bi...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Not under consideration

TDP should backup passsive DBs with the highest activation preferences

On Exchange 2013 cluster multi-node systems are give an active and morg than one passive database like in our environment. We deceided to backup the passive database with the highest activation perference. This is only possible via powershell scri...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

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