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Flashcopy Manager

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Flash Copies disappearing - now known to be a user error as well as VSS failover/resets and volumes not available for copy

Based on the PMR and Critsit (AH4742) results a bug was found, we need to get a resolution and get it to the customer right away. We are requesting support for clustered VSS servers in a FCM solution
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Delivered

Support for Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL)

Support for Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL). OEL is based on RHEL but was extended with a specific modified Kernel by Oracle. As also the native RHEL Kernel is included in OEL and FCM is supported for RHEL, it should be supported for OEL, too. Oracl...
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Delivered

FCM: File-level backups from a VSS offload mount of file system backups

Currently FlashCopy Manager v3.1 does have this functionality with NTFS volumes:- create a VSS snapshot of a NTFS volume on host A- mount this VSS snapshot as a new drive letter on host A- unmount this VSS snapshot on host A. This RFE is about the...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Delivered

FCM: Clone process is IN_PROGRESS forever

If FCM creates a clone system of a database, then fcmcli -f inquire_detail shows the status of the current progress of the background copy. Even if the background copy finishes, the status still is IN_PROGRESS. This currently is "working as design...
about 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Delivered