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Use SEEK_HOLE to improve handling of sparse files during backup and restore

Backing up and restoring Linux sparse files is extremely slow.Is it possible for IBM to modify the software to use the SEEK_HOLE functionality to detect holes quickly? See details at this URL: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13252682/copying-a-...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Mark and Copy from TSM GUI results

When you restore data using the Backup Archive Client, you can click the Report button to get a Detailed Status Report. If any files fail to restore, the 'Failed' number will be incremented and you can press the View button to see a list of un-res...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Request for support of 32 bit TDP client on 64 bit operating system.

Because you cannot install i.e TDP for Domino x32 on x64 OS you are unable to backup IBM products like Quickr for Domino. Quickr requires Domino x32, If you want to install TDP x32 you are unable to install because OS is x64. You cannot use TDP x6...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration

Add schedule backup end time to Monitoring for TSM

The monitoring agent for Tivoli Storage Manager should collect information about backup end time for client and also administrative schedules. Currently it is collecting only result and start time. This information is easily collectable in TSM dat...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Not under consideration

PMR 37047,999,760

System: Spectrum ProtectActor: Keep every files/directories "Updated date/time" correct Spectrum Protect backups and restore user's files and directories. When restoring files and directories "updated date/time" information in metadata set to "bac...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 0 Not under consideration

TSM for VE add information to better estimate meta data size

The current existing information in version 6.4 given by the command 'dsmc query VM <vmname> -detail' gives some details about the VM guest backups like : number of objects making up the backup, fragmentation, etc. but there is no easy way t...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TSM VE TDP should have option to enable/disable quiesce before snapshot

There needs to be an option to enable/disable the queisce before the VMware snapshot is taken. The scope of this option needs to be:1. By wildcard VM names2. By wildcard Host names3. By wildcard Host Cluster names4. etc.in a syntax similar to the ...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect for IBM i BRMS

As per Jeff's email belowFrom: Jeff Fosmo/Rochester/IBM@IBMUSTo: David Bhaskaran/Rochester/IBM@IBMUSCc: Jose Mao-Cheia/South Africa/IBM@IBMZA, Deon George/Australia/IBM@ibmau, Paul Maguire/UK/IBM@ibmgb, Redouane Acheche1/United Arab Emirates/IBM@i...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TSM Fastback Server has extremely slow read operations from disk

TSM Fastback Server has extremely slow read operations from disk:- all restore operations with both methods, Fastback Mount and Fastback BMR,- DR to TSM and- long term proxy backups to TSM.The speed of restore does not exceed 10Mbit/s (aggregate) ...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 2 Not under consideration

64 bit support for TSM System Backup and Recovery

TSM for System Backup and Recovery runs in 32 bit only mode, making it impossible to run with the latest TSM client and TDP levels. My customer is a long time Sysback customer and uses it to write bootable backups to TSM. They now must move to a 6...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Planned for future release

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