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Flashcopy Manager

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FCM For VMware Ver 3.2.0.2 - Improvement to Backup Status Report

FCM reports a false status for virtual machines when checked by generating a backup status report using the Reports > Backup Status Option with FCM GUI. With FCM for VMware 3.2.0.2 onwards FCM functionality has been improved to continue the bac...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

FCM4UNIX: multiple occurrences of DATABASE_BACKUP_INCREMENTEL_LEVEL incl. USE_AT clause in FCM profile required

Hi Tivoli :-) For incremental level Oracle (native) backups the DATABASE_BACKUP_INCREMENTAL_LEVEL statement must be usable multiple times like the INCREMENTAL_LEVEL statement for SAP/Oracle backups: INCREMENTAL_LEVELThis parameter is only for use ...
almost 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Flash Copy cold backup for Oracle while running in NOARCHIVELOG mode

We have several Oracle databases running in NOARCHIVELOG mode that we need to perform a cold backup on via flash copy manager. Oracle said this is a supported operation but Flash Copy Manager looks to see if Oracle is running in Archive mode or no...
almost 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

Ability to cancel the offload tape backup with FCM

When a backup process is offloaded to a backup server, it may take several hours. For example with a customer, each offload process takes 8 to 12 hours. At time, we need to cancel it when we try to backup development applications to make sure that...
almost 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM: VMware - Additional Question for Security Reasons

In case of restore a VM to its original location, the Plugin asks to overwrite it. This is great. We would like to see another additional question, if the VM still is running. E.g. "The VM you want to restore is still running. Do you really want t...
almost 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Restrict FCM to manage the own source and target volumes (multi tenancy)

Reference: Technical Exchange call with Mr. Uhl, Munz, Calvus 7/18/2013In a shared SAN-enviroment, security is very important for a service provider with multiple customers. We want to use FCM running on different operating systems in combination ...
about 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM: Support disk partitions on Linux

The customer requires support for disk partitions on Linux. Statement 2.0.10 of the FlashCopy Manager for UNIX and Linux prerequisites checklist explicitly excludes this support.
about 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Provide support in FlashCopy Manager for refresh from pureScale to non-pureScale DB2

IBM FlashCopy manager needs to support new DB2 (10.5) function that allows pureScale-based DB2 systems to be restored to a non-pureScale-based system. Prior to 10.5, this was not possible, but now, based on an OFFLINE backup, it is possible to res...
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM: User Interface

- Unified GUI for Unix/Linux/VMware/Windows- Show where (FCM, and/or TSM) the backups are and which backp-version of which application exist- Same look and feel like the TPC 5.1 WebGUI- WebGUI- Central interface for all FCM flavours- Optional Inte...
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM: Option to only delete clone mappings

FlashCopy Manager creates a system copy by performing a FlashCopy in the Storage System. This implies that the Storage System (like SVC) creates a copy relation between a source and target LUN. Some customers require to remove this copy relation t...
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Planned for future release

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