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Storage Protect Family

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64 bit support for TSM System Backup and Recovery

TSM for System Backup and Recovery runs in 32 bit only mode, making it impossible to run with the latest TSM client and TDP levels. My customer is a long time Sysback customer and uses it to write bootable backups to TSM. They now must move to a 6...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Planned for future release

Wildcard Support for VMFolder option in TSM4VE

We have different retention requirement for VM backup. so I was wondering if wild card is supported than we would not have to modified OPT file every time we add new customer..
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

INCLUDE INACTIVATION DATE IN QUERY BACKUP

Include a new column showing the inactivation date of inactive objects in the output of dsmc query backup. i.e. dsmc q ba -ina -subdir=yes -showinactivationdate /mydir/* Also, it would be vastly simplify parsing if the dsmc client could do tab del...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

DELETE FILESPACE FROM STORAGE POOL (ESPECIALLY COPY)

Allow DELETE FILESPACE to specify a storage pool. i.e. delete filespace <nodename> <filespace> stgpool=<stgpool>
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TSM for Databases clients not restorable from backupsets

Currently if you use TSM for Databases to backup your databases you can't use backupsets because the restoring of the data doesn't work. Currently if you want to have a database backup included in a backupset you need to create a separate dump fro...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

TSM deduplicated data in an offsite copy storage pool

Customer Lyle Fast wants to request a change to the way TSM works regarding deduplicated data in an offsite copy storage pool. TSM recommends that offsite storage pools have a fully hydrated copy local and any offsite copies are non-deduplicated. ...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

The TSM Fastback function does not meet the needs of

Please expand the storage space of the the Fastback software supports more than 2TB, users have 4TB of data need to be backed up
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack Center 2 Not under consideration

Operation Center Report Interval

TSM Operation center reports scheduling is limited. Some reports for management are more useful at monthly, quarterly or even yearly intervals, however currently the only supported schedules are daily or weekly. Adding additional duration options ...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Bypass VSS_E_MAXIMUM_NUMBERS_OF_VOLUMES_REACHED limitation on

We need a new feature to bypass the VSS Limit of 64 Volumes during the Backups.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Planned for future release

Enhanced security for admin access to Protect

Administrative access to Spectrum Protect (including but not limited to the WebUI) has a weak security model.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

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