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Storage Protect Family

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Extend 512 Character Filter limit in TSM for VE Backups

The filter limit of 512 Characters is too limiting. In a large environment this limit causes admins to create multiple schedules to accomplish what one schedule should be able to do. Having these multiple schedules causes additional problems such ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Exclude SRM placeholders in TSM for VE backups

There are no viable options to exclude SRM placeholders from TSM for VE backups. TSM for VE should either identify or filter out SRM placeholders from showing in the backup selection view.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Adding Exclude statement for Hyper-V backups

We do not find Exclude statement for hyper-v backups.Customer is not able to exclude particular VM from backup.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

tsm and ilmt agent for ubuntu ppc64le

We are starting using free linux distros like ubuntu to provide several services to our customers. We run ubuntu on ibm i power hardware.It would be nice to use also tsm for backup on this machines and also have subcapicity support on ubuntu os. s...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Not under consideration

version 7.1 32bit linux tsm client

We have several 32 bit linux systems that have applications that prevent OS upgrades. As new security vulnerabilities are found and updated, we have caused the TSM client to stop working, luckily we were able to upgrade tsm to the 6.2.5.4 client c...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

ICO managed TSM activities

Centralized management of TSM activities through TSM server instead of direct connection from ICO to the End-Point. This would enable TSM Server acting as automation tool for backup related activitites such as triggering of backups , snapshots, re...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM backup client fails to restore directories that were "over quota" when the backup was performed

Novell NSS file system (on a SLES based server) has a feature called "directory quota". It is possible to set such a quota on a directory, such that the quota is lower than the amount of data currently stored within the directory. TSM will backup ...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

exclude.dir option for ndmp backups

excluding dir option for ndmp backups
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Timestamps for TDP Logs

I would like to see a date and timestamp in the logs generated by TDP. Right now, the data about number of files backed up and such floods the logs and isn't very helpful when trying to determine the progress of a backup.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

ANS1115W with snapdiff option

ANS1115W warning when excluded directoy are scanned with snapdiff method.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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