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Storage Protect Family

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Provide support for COS WORM (and other S3 or BLOB equivalent WORM features)

Multiple customers and BPs have requested that Spectrum Protect supports the WORM functionality in S3 offload, be that the COS specific or the general S3 protocol WORM functionality. While not specifically required it also seems prudent to extend ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Planned for future release

Stream Audit Log entries Spectrum Protect Plus

It should be possible to stream the Spectrum Protect Plus audit log to a central collector, much like Syslog. At the moment it's only possible to download the audit log (or parts of it) using HTTP or the REST API.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP: Enable filesystem & DB Backup at the same time

When looking in the System requirements for SPP, the following restriction is mentioned: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6421231 Only one application server or file server can be assigned per host. For example, if a host is registered as a ...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Add Support for IBM Spectrum Scale SafeguardCopy in Spectrum Protect as enhanced Cybercrime Solution for the Spectrum Protect Server Platform

In the area of cyberattacks its necessary to enhance the data-security in Spectrum Protect Installations. These attacks are coming. If we can immplement the scale safeguard Copy function in an spectrum protect installation for our GPFS Conf, DB, l...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Directory-container stgpool protection using cloud-container stgpools

A directory-container storage pool can not be protected by using a cloud-container storage pool, neither via the PROTECTstgpool nor the PROTECTLOCalstgpools options. It would make sense to allow a directory-container storage pool to be protected t...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Replication Job shows as "Error" if no data is there to process

When using the replication of vSnap backup storage data and no "new" backup data is available in the source vSnap, SPP identifies the replication job as "Error" which is not true.In fact, just no new data is available in the source vSnap server. S...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Enable selective VMDK based restore for "Production Restore (Disk Replace)"

Starting with version 10.1.7 it is possible to restore only the VMDK's of a VM without restoring the configuration data of the VM.This restore mode is named "Production Restore (Disk Replace)". This restore mode does a restore of all VMDK's of a V...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Manual client package import for Operation Center client deployment

Possibility for a manual import of client packages which can be used by the Spectrum Protect Operation Center to update clients.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration

vSnap recovery from ISP offload

vSnaps of spectrum protect plus are at the moment secured by replicating the data to another vSnap. Currently only the backup data are offloaded through S3, but not the metadata vSnap needed to recover itself in case of crash or cyber attack. We ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Ubuntu on s390x support for Spectrum Project Client

Originally requested in 2019 and was marked for future consideration, IBM support Ubuntu on s390x Linux on Z however does not provide a backup client for Spectrum on an IBM platform s390x Linux on Z.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

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