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Spectrum Protect Support for BeeGFS File System

Dupont would like IBM Spectrum Protect to protect BeeGFS parallel File system. It is POSIX based and Open source.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

ADD FUNCTION ON CLI (SELECT) FOR IBM SPECTRUM FOR VE

From gui view it's possible to implement the search "VM WHITOUT BACKUPS".We would add this function at CLI level.In this way I will can schedule a weekly reports.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Enable assignment of volume extents to a specific tier level within an easy tier hybrid pool

Can you enable that all extents of a specific volume can be assigned to a specific tier level within an easy tier hybrid pool configuration ? Example: hybrid pool contents of 3000 GB Flash Tier and 50000 GB Enterprise tier. Create new volume and a...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

TSM Admin Sched returns completed even when it fails

backup admin scheds ALWAYS returns completed, even when it fails.A 'backup db' administrative schedule for example. If any option specified is incorrect, the backup db will fail, but the schedule returns completed !!! In my opinion it should retur...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Cross-platform/device recovery of NDMP backups

Client has requested the ability to recovery NDMP files to a non-NAS recovery target, for example a Windows server.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect Client 8.1 : Option to remove maximum number of nested directory check or increase the value.

In IBM Spectrum Protect Client 8.1 the fix for IT13701 (http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IT13701) prevents us from backing up our mail server structure which legitimately has more than 1400 nested subdirectories. There should be a...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

SVCDTA FlashCopy Target must be mirrored, if source volumes are mirrored

We have an open Complaint AK2872.To solve this complaint we have to migrate to SVCDTA in FlashCopy Manager.Wwe get the problem adressed in the PMR for our critical luns..
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

Add parm to allow some control over the calculation of available space to avoid false positive ANS1311E errors

Add a parm that could specify the estimated amount of data reduction to use when calculating if the storage pool has sufficient space. so setting this parm to 75 would tell TSM to assume the pending backup is going to get at least a 75% reduction,...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Change incremental action on change to ACL or xattr

Currently, TSM will back up an entire file if the ACL or extended attributes of the file are changed, rather than updating the metadata. See:https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21448429 This leads to a lot of duplicate backups, and ...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Use a linux web client to do NDMP restores

There does not appear to be a way to restore a NDMP backup via a linux GUI client. This means that in order to do a restore a windows server needs to be provisioned, maintained and available purely for restoration purposes.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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