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Storage Protect Family

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Replication job 'Fails' when there is no data

We have a use case where we would like to leave replication enabled for a backup SLA that runs manually. As the job is run infrequently users will not remember to run replication when they run the job. However, SPP reports the replication job as '...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Server migration processing should be able to use more than 1 process with data from only 1 node in the primary disk pool

Server migration processing (from disk to tapes) should be able to use more than 1 process in order to use multiple tape drives in parallel emptying the disk pool despite data in the primary disk pool is from 1 node only.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Include proxy node (PROXY_AGENT) info in actlog

When using proxy nodes to put data into a single proxy target, it would be nice if operations by proxy nodes (PROXY_AGENT) are logged together with the proxy node name i a seperate column in the TSM server activity log.If backups are done directly...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

Grid View of backup success rate

The current VM backup success report takes minutes to run for a 1 day report and much longer (I gave up waiting) for a 7 day report. If the Protected and Unprotected VMs report is anything to go by it could take over 2 hours to produce this report...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Allow Spectrum Protect Plus to restore database to different instance using existing database name

I backup a database EXAMPLE on one server(prodserver) under instance Prodinst1. I have a test server(testserver) with instance Testinst1. As part of testing, our developers use testserver/TestInst1 database EXAMPLE. SPP backs up the database on pr...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect and Federated Catalog

An Active Active solution with a Federated Catalog.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Backups of Hard links

Backup of Hard linked files will backup the data blocks once for every hard link.This behavior, where TSM treats all links as regular files, is not optimal since a backup will need to transfer the data more than needed.This should be optional so t...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum protect support for AWS Glacier

we are using Spectrum protect 7.1.7 version to backup data to AWS S3. Our customer wants to move less frequently accessed data to Glacier to reduce cost. The AWS SLP feature can be used to achieve this but the current version of Spectrum protect d...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

SPP dashboard to marked out following the RBAC settings

In the Dashboard page, we saw the coverage. Although some users are scoped using RBAC functionality, the coverage is not updated in this regard.Same about the policy preview Is there a way to show the user his own perimeter? for exemple DBA team s...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

More control over "disable sessions" for client nodes

Sometimes it may be necessary to prevent clients from connecting to a Spectrum Protect Server to perform backups. Reasons for this can be, for example, maintenance work on the Spectrum Protect Server, where access to the storage pool is not given....
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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