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Spectrum Protect Plus support MariaDB

Important pubic sector in Spain (Andalucia sub-region) has decided to use "Maria DB" as new Data Base (replacing Oracle).Some customers in that public sector loves SPP for future Containers, VMs and Aplication Data Protection but they really need ...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect for Databases SQL in Linux

We need us to implement Backup/Restore Spectrum Protect for Databases SQL in Linux Servers
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Future consideration

include log backups in additional copies

In version 10.1.8 transaction log backups (e.g. for MSSQL or MS Exchange) can be replicated between vSnap servers to produce redundant copies.In the "additional copies" feature only the incremental backups of the DBs/applications are copied to the...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

To enable option within SPP for setting multipe bandwidth throttle limits

At the moment, SPP has the option only to set single throttle limit for replication & copy operations, but will it be better to allow the option to have multiple bandwidths throttling limits, during varied time schedules. Example as below: Bus...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

Support for Active Directory Item restore

Today does IBM Storage Protect Backup-Archive Client only support to protect Microsoft Active Directory and do a total Disaster Recovery of Microsoft Active Directory. If we want to restore only one item in the Active Directory to get back from a ...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

Object Lock / Immutability with SP/P with Hitachi Cloud Scale

In alignment with our Cyber Resiliency sales play many of our clients are looking at ways to utilise the assets they already have purchased to "sure up" their infrastructure. We know data management solutions are a target of internal and external ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Migration of Data/Backups between VSnaps

In backup operations, it is becoming increasingly apparent that existing backup jobs are growing larger and larger, reaching the limits of a VSNAP. Adding new VSNAPs only helps new backup jobs or distributes existing backups to different VSNAPs. A...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Powershell interface to dsmc and dsmadmc

Powershell is becoming the scripting language of choice for windows. It is difficult to call existing dsmc and dsmadmc command line tools from powershell and reasonably process the output. Powershell has an object pipeline model and file output do...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Support for Ubuntu

Redhat have now killed CentOS and there is really no option to get a cheap operating system for non critical application and small operations then Ubuntu Server or Fedora Server. And if a non critical application like IBM Spectrum Protect Operatio...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Possibility to deploy/update Client Management Services (CMS) using Spectrum Protect Operation Center

Update of Client Management Services (CMS) using Spectrum Protect Operation Center is not possible.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration