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BAclient support for VxCFS

The VxCFS feature is based on a distributed lock manager + VxFS filesystem.While VxFS as a filesystem type is supported, it's not clear whether the overall VxCFS feature is supported or not.A note similar to the one regarding use of GPFS under AIX...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 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 Not under consideration

implement managed disk (mdisk) mirroring

We would like to see the ability to mirror mdisks, similar to the current ability to mirror vdisks.
about 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Option to Restrict access rights of TSM BA Client

add an option to dsm.sys or dsm.opt that introduces a "strict" mode , i.e. FILESPACERESTRICTION DOMAIN | LOCAL | ALL with the effekt that BA Web Client GUI of a node only shows the Filespaces of that node and allows access for Backup/Restore a) on...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Product specification change request

When a backup real line command is executed from a client, I want a retry to change for it being made to be performed.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 2 Not under consideration

FCM: Simplify complexity of mounting

To mount a FlashCopy is more complex than expected, because it is not clear under which conditions which arguments must be used in order to mount a FlashCopy. Normally, FCM mounts the latest FlashCopy Backup to the Backup System with this command:...
about 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

For the CLI restore node command allow the client the option of not searching the "last full" first

I would like the option of when I do a restore of allowing TSM to skip the last full backup; particularly if the object[s] did not exist when the last full was performed and/or has been modified since.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Not under consideration

Restartable TDP for Exchange Backup over a WAN connection

TDP for Mail Exchange Backup requires a Full Backup without interuption. In case of a WAN connection a transfer withous interuption might be impossible and no Exchange Full Backup is possible. It would be good to be able to restart a backup job.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration

fastback fbdrcopy force to not overwrite existing files in TSM

a force=no option so that if the fbdrcopy operation is interrupted you don't have to overwrite the files that have already been exported to the TSM server.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 2 Not under consideration

Support for Dell Equallogic FS7500

We recently added a Dell Equallogic FS 7500 NAS for the storage of our faculty/staff, administrative and student file shares. We would like to see the FS 7500 added to the list of supported devices so that we can backup the system using TSM and ND...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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