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Spectrum Protect for Mail

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 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 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 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 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 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 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 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail Not under consideration

Disable replication on restored database

Provide option in GUI to set "disable replication after restore", independently from backuped database file (NSF).Reference: (b_dp_dom_win.pdf)IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail Version 7.1Data Protection for IBM Domino for WindowsInstallation an...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail Not under consideration

Replication on Migration

Parameter for Storagepools to have a replication on migration instead of copy on migration.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 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 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 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 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 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.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 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
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail Not under consideration

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