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Storage Protect Family

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retenrule with individual filespaces

The new feature retention rule does not allow to define individual filespaces for an BA/aR Client.This parameter is only supported for vm backups.The feature retention rule / retention sets should be an alternative to the backupsets.The backupset ...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Export from Directory Containers

Export and Import is a vital function in TSM. Both for transfer node data between TSM servers and for Off-site and longterm storage of backup data. Directory-container pools are the latest and in many ways the best way to store local backup data i...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Ability to delete filespace tied in retention set.

If we set up f.e a retention rule to save a yearly backup for all VMs, we then can not delete any of the VMs filespaces completley. Only if we delete the retentionset and thus deleting all of the yearly backups.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

add functionality to audit container command

If for some reason some containers in a directory stgdpool pool have become unavailable or readonly, audit container must be run. If there are many containers to run audit on there is no way of queing up the audit processes.I'd like a wait=yes fla...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Data Protection for VMware Support for vSphere 6.7

The latest version of Data Protection for VMWare, v8.1.4, supports vSphere 6.5 and 6.5 update and patch levels. VSphere 6.7 is out, when will this be supported?
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

Backup directory-container storage pools to tape

We need the ability to backup or move data from directory-container storage pools to tape.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

IMPORT an EXPORT on TAPE

In some cases, customers need to keep client nodes as they were on a monthly, or yearly basis.To meet this requirement, we use the EXPORT NODE command :EXPORT NODE node1,node2,…nodeXWhen access to exported data is requested, we use the IMPORT NODE...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Support needed on client side dedupliaction for NextStgPool when MaxSize is being used on first storage pool.

Support is needed for client deduplication not being disabled for the rest of the session, if an object from a client exceed the defined MaxSize on the first storage pool, and then is being backed up to the next storage pool (which might or might ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

TSM for VE: Instant Restore for full VM Restore

Currently TSM for VE only supports near instant restore for singe disks/volumes/file systems. For a restore of a whole virtual machine, no instant restore is possible. One possibility to provide this functionality would be following: 1. Make the T...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Delivered

REPLICATE NODE needs a DURATION option

REPLICATE NODE locks filespaces. If bandwidth to the target is impaired, or if the target's storage is slow, then replicate node can effectively hang, locking filespaces for days. This causes backups to hang or fail, and other daily administration...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

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