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Problem with long running Incr. Backup on deduped Win 2012 Drive

We have 2 Win 2012 Fileserver with several millions of files and several terabytes of data. Now it is deduped and incr. run now 6 times longer.It would be great to implement "Windows optimized Backup" into the TSM Baclient.
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Automatic Deletion of HANA Backup

In TSM HANA TDP parameter MAX_VERSIONS is not activated.This is a big disadvantage. In normal TSM SAP TDP it is implemented.
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 2 Not under consideration

Parallel AFM cache fileset prefetch controls

Need ability to direct AFM prefetch operation (e.g. mmafmctl <new fs> prefetch -j <cache fileset> --home-inode-file <mmapplypolicy file list from old fs> ) to run multiple threads from a single gateway node in parallel for prefet...
about 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

BA-Client for FreeBSD

Native tsm-client operatingsystem support for FreeBSD 10 (amd64) in order to the future of Linux with systemd.
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Online process to convert the DB2 9.5 tablespaces to DB2 9.7 tablespaces – Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM)

The TSM servers formatted on TSM V6.1 have DB2 9.5 table spaces. This does not have reclaimable storage feature. This results in unexpected growth of TSM database over time and drastically degrades the performance of TSM server. There is a complex...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

Process AutoDeploy Linux without PING

Hi, The autodeploy of tsm client on Linux OS is using ping to compare the serveraddress from autodeploy process with serveraddress from config file (dsm.sys). As the ping is not authorized, the result of comparaison is false and the autodeploy pro...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

enhance TSM node replication for data of nodes of type Server

At the moment node replication can not be used for data stored for nodes of type server. To achieve a complete desaster protection based on stored TSM data there is also a need to replicate data of these nodes. We know that we need as well databas...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

include OLOG/MLOG-DGs into Backup Process

in addition of processing only Oracle Data-DG also process OLOG/MLOG-DGs (mount/unmount these DGs at Backupserver for RMAN processing)
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

TSM Operations Center Add Client Node add to node group

When adding a client node using the beautiful TSM Operations Center, the user is walked through various selections for node, domain and backup schedule and even client options set! Great. In a disk only based solution with node replication where r...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

TSM Operations Center Add Client Node add to collocation group

When adding a client node using the slick TSM Operations Center, the user is walked through various selections for node, domain and backup schedule and even client options set! Great. In a tape based solution where collocation groups are available...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

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