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Storage Protect Family

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Allow DSMC Incremental to follow expiration logic of deleted files, even if using filelist parameter.

When a typical DSMC incremental backup identifies that a file is no longer there, it notifies the TSM server, which places the file in inactive state, which then puts the retention of that file under control of the policy settings for files in tha...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Snapshot backup attempted & error shows job failed,when only database snapshot failed,everything else backed up successfully.

Currently, a snapshot backup is attempted and it generates an error that the job has failed when really it hasn't, only the database snapshot has failed, all the other databases get backed up successfully. This results in additional overhead for a...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

TSM for Mail for 64bit Domino on Linux x64

There's currently no compatible TSM for Mail client available in order to backup a server running IBM Domino 9 - 64bit for Linux.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Planned for future release

Simultaneous backup to primary and copypool using lanfree.

Simultaneous backup to primary and copypool using lanfree. Our customer is interesting in doing simultaneous backup to primary and copy storage pool.
over 11 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 ...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

Improve TSM Replication over high latency WAN links

I would like a TSM server option that would allow TSM to use as many parallel TCP connections as possible in order to maximize throughput along a Long Fat Pipe (WAN link w/ >60ms latency between TSM servers). Alternatively, I would like the TSM...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

TSM for VE: Exclude Windows Page File

TSM for VE needs to provide the ability to exclude Windows page files.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

backupManagementTag: Unassigned instead of excluded

'dsmc show VM all' command output displaying "backupManagementTag: Unassigned" for excluded guests.Example :backupManagementTag: UnassignedbackupManagementTagSource: Tag on (vSphere object name) (mobid)
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Enhance TDP for Oracle to enable an option to bypass the catalog and access inactive backups

Enhance the product (all TDP's for Databases but in this case specifically for Oracle) to enable recovery of inactive backups (not in the catalog).
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

planexpl.awk.smp script should create an individual file for the SERVER.RERQUIREMENTS stanza.

The packaged script to explode the DR Plan into individual files (i.e. planexpl.awk.smp) currently does not create an individual file for the SERVER.RERQUIREMENTS stanza. The stanza SERVER.RERQUIREMENTS should be included in these scripts so when ...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

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