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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

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...
over 10 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...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Tivoli FCM individual mail box restore problem

restore the mail box with it's locale rather then change the locale setting of the exchange server everytime.
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Planned for future release

FCM: Unix/Linux Netapp NFS support for DB2/Oracle/SAP

FCM v3.2 for Unix/Linux supports Netapp Storage via FC or iSCSI, but not NFS. This RFE is to support nfs as well.
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Planned for future release

IBM FlashCopy Manager support for Solaris 10 x86

Currently FlashCopy manager is only supported on Solaris 10 (Sparc) and not Solaris 10 x86. There are many environments out there that run Oracle databases on Solaris 10 x86 for cost savings reasons (cheaper then buying Sparc hardware) and with Fl...
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

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...
over 11 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 ...
over 11 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

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