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Add Support of Snapdiff API v3

Dear developers NetApp provides a protocol or API called SnapDiff. Spectrum Protect currently supports the API in the Release v1. Now that v2 and v3 of SnapDiff are already available (as a REST API), NetApp has discontinued support for v1 in curre...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Planned for future release

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Container Backup Support in the Red Hat OpenShift environment running on POWER platform

Customer is creating new AI workloads on OpenShift running on IBM POWER servers. Spectrum Protect Plus v10.1.7 supports Linux x86_64, but not Linux on POWER.OpenShift is designed to enable portability to multiple platforms, but Spectrum Protect Pl...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Document required "sudo" permissions

The requirement for a single file recovery within Spectrum Protect Plus is to implement a sudo-configuration on each protected VM to assign:sppagent ALL=(root) NOPASSWD:ALL
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Storage scale performance statistics for SMB shares

EMS GUI (Monitoring > Statistics) only provides SMB performance statistics for cluster or node level. Having stats on each individual SMB share would be very useful. NFS shares have such stats.
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

SP Plus - Start Copy job/replication job when Main policy is complete

Possibility to define in a SLA that a "Additional Copy" or "Replication" Should only begin when the "Primary" job is no longer running.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP: Implement link feature for jobs

Currently SPP only offers a job scheduling by time. To leverage the backup (and replication) window at a maximum, it would be great to have a "link feature" for jobs.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus introduce support for file level backup and restore for Ubuntu and Debian VMs

Spectrum Protect Plus introduce support for file level backup and restore for Ubuntu and Debian VMs
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Do not trigger a new base backup if the site associated with the SLA policy is changed

Currently if you alter the target site in an SLA policy it will trigger a new base backup. This behaviour should be adjusted so that by default it does not trigger a new base backup.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support for SAP/Oracle running on AIX with Defender Data Protect

Many customers use SAP with Oracle on AIX. Since DDP already supports Oracle standalone on AIX, and SAP/Oracle on x86_64, is there roadmap to include SAP/Oracle on AIX as well?
5 months ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

non-root users access behaviour with version SP 8

Customer needs for SP version 8 to allow "other users" (non-root users and not "authorized users" for SP point of view) to use dsmc in order to restore their files The requirement is to continue with behaviour as per TSM 7.16 (https://www.ibm.com/...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration