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Storage Protect Family

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Increase overview on status of VM backup for administrators

When viewing status for protection of VM backup in Spectrum Protect for Virtual Enviorments, whether in OC or in WebClient we should show what type of backup was successful. Did backup success quiesced or not, is it Microsoft VSS, or VMDDK, or cra...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect server activity log to show detailed file restore and tape volume.

Hi Team, As a requirement for auditing we would like to have the server actlog show the file restore in detail and the tape volume it was restored. At the moment we have to restore from the client using restore/pick option and screen shot to...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Functionality already exists

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

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

Spectrum Protect PLUS support RedHat v6.4

Important Telco company (Vodefaone) need to support RedHat v6.4 with Spectrum Protect PLUS.They have some internal applications and it's impossible to upgrade RH version.The objective it's to protect (with SPP) Oracle 11g.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect PLUS support Oracle 10g

Important Telco company (Vodefaone) need to support Oracle 10g over RedHat v5.9 with Spectrum Protect PLUS.They have some internal applications and it's impossible to upgrade RH version.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect PLUS support RedHat v5.9

Important Telco company (Vodefaone) need to support RedHat v5.9 with Spectrum Protect PLUS.They have some internal applications and it's impossible to upgrade RH version and oython 2.4.The objective it's to protect (with SPP) Oracle 10g.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 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

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.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

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