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Storage Protect Family

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Backups of Hard links

Backup of Hard linked files will backup the data blocks once for every hard link.This behavior, where TSM treats all links as regular files, is not optimal since a backup will need to transfer the data more than needed.This should be optional so t...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Exclude VMs from VM-Backup in connection with a CloptSet

a function like Exclude.VM which excludes complete VMs from Backup serial able (not overwrites value before) / chain able / like other excludes In combination with a ClientOptionSet on the TSM-Server
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

To fix the backup issue happening due to the mounted snapshot for FLR

As of now the backups are failing for the VMs for which the backup snapshots are in mounted state for FLR. There are some critical restore request which takes plenty of time to copy the files (due to size) and we are forced to keep the VM mounted....
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Management to support FS and Application for the same client

An Application Server Provider is defined as an application (HANA, System Cache, SQL, Oracle) or File System. Why not both Oracle and File System? for example
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum protect support for AWS Glacier

we are using Spectrum protect 7.1.7 version to backup data to AWS S3. Our customer wants to move less frequently accessed data to Glacier to reduce cost. The AWS SLP feature can be used to achieve this but the current version of Spectrum protect d...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Grid View of backup success rate

The current VM backup success report takes minutes to run for a 1 day report and much longer (I gave up waiting) for a 7 day report. If the Protected and Unprotected VMs report is anything to go by it could take over 2 hours to produce this report...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

add more function on TSM operation Center

• If is it possible we can setup server group, each user access Ops center, he/she can choose their server group to review and operation, • For sever webpage, is it possible to show both TSM instance name and OS host name, since we have several TS...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

TSM backup solution for KVM

We are looking for online backup solution for KVM.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect and Federated Catalog

An Active Active solution with a Federated Catalog.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Add PowerCLI and/or PowerShell integration to VM backup

Enable and document how a VM admin in VMware or Hyper-V can use PowerCLI og PowerShell to kick of a backup, set tags. Documentation today talks about that you can use PowerCLI to add tags for VM setting, add examples of how this is done. Look at v...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

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