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Storage Protect Family

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Stop File Content Backup on ACL Change

Currently when an ACE is changed in an ACL it will cause the full file to be backed up again in TSM. For example, if we have a 200GB file and we change 1 ACE in the ACL it will cause the content of the 200GB file to be backed up again when the con...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

TSM Data protection for VMware FLR interface performance Improvement

We are using the FLR interface for recovering files from DP for VMware snapshot backups. From the FLR interface login page, after the click on "connection" button, it's take a long time (nearly 3 minutes) to display the next pages. Is it possible ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Change TSM Server-based Library Manager behaviour

Please change the behaviour of the TSM Server-based acting in a library manager only role to not require read/write access to the tape drives during normal operations. Currently, TSM server performing library manager only function (no servicing ba...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Detail results not appearing when using proxy for backup

The backups are working properly, but Operations Center does not graph results from proxy node backups. Operations Center version as 7.1.3TSM Server version as 7.1.3.0. Found hits pointing to DOC APAR IT07424, which indicates that this is a known ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Using Powershell DataSpaceUsage in TDPSQL breaks fundamental requirements

TDP for Databases (MSSQL) makes use of powershell API call "DataSpaceUsage" prior to executing the Backup Log command to the virtual tape interface. The resulting query against the database allocation unit structures suffers from blocking while se...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Reporting availability in the TSM administration console

Unlike other tools, if the standard minimal reporting can be incorporated with the TSM server admin console. Like media information(Vault & scratch), DB backup status, Backup status, etc. Some of the informations, we will get it from the opera...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TSM file devclass support for NFS filesystem

When defining file type of devclass, the directory options can be multiple directories. define devc fileclass devtype=file directory=/back1,/back2 We will be using 2 x 10 Gbit card to access NFS share. There will be two mounts at least, but both m...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM Login Banner

Security/Audit demands an authorised legal disclaimer is displayed and acknowledged before user access to IT systems, services or devices is granted
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

dismount vol * state=idle

For maintenance on a physical or virtual library it is sometimes needed to unmounts all tapes from a library. To do this you have to set devc to mountl=0 and cancels all processes and backups on LIBCLs using this library. Afterwards all drives are...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

halt command should do a complete and clean halt by option

Currently the halt command stops all processes but does not unmounts mounted volumes. In an LIBCL LIBMG environment you cannot use the drives until some timeouts will recycle the drives or the use in not confirmed to LIBMG (ANR8925W Drive x in lib...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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