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SNAPDIFF on Linux - CIFS mount support

We'd like to use a Linux client to back up our Netapp storage using CIFS mounts, using the new SNAPDIFF functionality. Currently the client doesn't seem to recognize the CIFS mount as a valid Netapp volume, so the SNAPDIFF backup fails.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Is a defect

de-duplication performance improvement request

TSM de-duplication function is supposed to make back-up area more efficient,but it is slower than it was expected.(100GB/h was expected but actual is 10GB/a day)So duplicate data isn't erased and DISK almost ran out of space.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Is a defect

HSM client must destroy orphaned DM sessions of all its processes

The Tivoli HSM client (aka TSM for Space Management) must clean up orphaned DM sessions of all its processes. Currently, only certain daemon processes do this. However, most of the commands - e.g. dsmdf, dsmmigrate, dsmreconcile... - open DM sessi...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 3 Is a defect

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