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Force override of profiles from configuration manager

Whenever the configuration manager fails to update on targets, an admin should be able to either force the profile to a target, or on the target allow replacement. To reenable subscription is a long process where ALL nodes must be moved to tempora...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Expiration only backup

Would like to have the ability to run an expiration scan on a client. We currently have to back up some clients with millions of files - due to ram limitations we are using a filelist. With that expiration does not occur. Would it be possible to r...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Add TSM linux client to use syslog to log errors

TSM Linux b/a client is not able to write error logs to syslog facilities.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Create parameter IFDIFFERENT for client option REPLACE.

Add a parameter for the TSM client option REPLACE .This parameter would be called something like IFDIFFERENT. This parameter would behave in a similar fashion to REPLACE=NO except it WOULD replace the file on the filesystem if it was dif...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Obtaining SnapDiff backup base snapshot name

When running an incremental SnapDiff backup on NetApp volumes from the BA client, a differential snapshot is created on the NetApp in the beginning of each backup, and compared with the base snapshot remained from the previous backup. On the end o...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

backup and restore to windows cifs share without explicitly using net use

Currently in order to backup a windows cifs share, to do a snapdiff or otherwise, you need to issue a "net use" as a pre command to a scheduled backup. This is an extra step in configuration/scripting that shouldn't be necessary. This also makes i...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Allow grouping of statistics by DS8000 internal resources for performance reporting

Provide the ability to group and subset performance statistics for the DS8000 based on the internal configuration of the disk subsystem. Metrics which could be used for grouping and subsetting would be: - Rank statistics : device adapter, tier, DD...
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration

NDMP virtualfs mapping to single file e.g. a LUN

During use of NetApp Snapmanager technology there exists clones of LUNs into the same volume for testing or developing. During backup the wish exists only to backup the production LUN and not the other one. That is not possible because virtualfs m...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Dedupdelete in error

Dedup delete Always get In error state? : YesCurrent return code : 1021 This is when expire inventory runs
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Timeout value for recieving file information during inspection

The new feature I would like to have implemented is just a simple timeout value (or some kind of watchdog) which skips the inspection and backup of a file when the file information is not retrievable during inspection.<br />An additional hel...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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