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My ideas: Flashcopy Manager

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FCM: Simplify complexity of mounting

To mount a FlashCopy is more complex than expected, because it is not clear under which conditions which arguments must be used in order to mount a FlashCopy. Normally, FCM mounts the latest FlashCopy Backup to the Backup System with this command:...
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Provide Volume Label Information when querying list of available components to backup for File System And Custom App Support.

FCM 3.2 Beta Customer would like the ability to view the Volume/ Mount Point label along with the drive/mount point name when querying the list of available components to backup for the Flash Copy Manager For Windows File System and Custom Applica...
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM Windows - Allow option to skip import/mask if integrity check is not needed

With FlashCopy Manager for Windows, when "just in time" imports are used, offer the option not to import the snapshot to the production machine, unless necessary. For example, if we are not doing an Exchange integrity check and we are not running ...
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM Windows - support managment of snapshot XIV mirrors

Fairfax County would like FlashCopy Manager (FCM) in Windows to support management of XIV mirrored snapshots. They would also like to be able to set different policies for the XIV mirrored snapshots, if possible. They would like FCM to handle this...
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

response file for FCM silent setup

Possibility to create a response file for the FCM setup script setup_*.sh and to use it for silent setup on other FCM installations.
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM vCenterPlugin: Email notification

If a job fails, it only can be seen in the vCenter Plugin, so the administrators always have to take a look in the Plugin in order to check if the backup schedules were successfully. It is necessary to have a functionality to send out an email onc...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM vCenterPlugin: Possibility to disable a job

Currently in the vCenter Plugin it is not possible to disable a schedule. The only possibility to "disable" a schedule is to delete the schedule or to set it to a time very very far in future.
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

Email alerting

Alert when job fails as a supplement to reports.
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

FCM: Possibility to create FULL FC on XIV

If FlashCopy Manager is used in conjunction with XIV, then FlashCopy Manager only is able to create Space Efficient Snapshots. Unfortunately also, if FlashCopy Manager creates Clone Systems. Especially for Clones or System Copies it is important t...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

fcmcli to display date/time of backup

1. FCM for custom apps to display the date/time the flash backup was taken when using fcmcli. 2. Allow TSM offloaded backups to run under root so all files are backed up (as the app ID doesnt always have ability to backup all files) and to do incr...
almost 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

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