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Spectrum Protect for Mail

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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 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 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...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Not under consideration

Replication on Migration

Parameter for Storagepools to have a replication on migration instead of copy on migration.
over 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...
almost 11 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 ?
about 11 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.
over 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.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration

No Exchange Dumster functionality by IMR

Since Exchange 2010, Mailbox and DB-dumpster are an important feature for customers. TDPE 6.x is always backing up these data via VSS/Snapshot technologies. Unfortenatly, TDPE 6.X is not able to restore these kind of datas. The customer who is usi...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Planned for future release

IMR restore account to powerful

Every IMR enabled windows account has to have the "Organization Management group" assigned, to full fill any IMR-Operation on any Microsoft Exchange version with any TDPE 6.x version. From security point of view, this not acceptable. Any security ...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Planned for future release