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show rebuild V7000 under running tasks

As you can see we've had a hard disk with a lot errors. We've changed the hdd with a new one and reset the disk status back to spare disk. After this the array began to rebuild, but you can't see anything under the GUI of the V7000. Only with a sp...
about 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Is a defect

Avoiding inventory mismatches between TSM and library after library hard-stop

After severe library problems, e.g.. a hard-stop due to an accessor problem, when the library is taken offline for fixing (in our case a TS3500), tapes remain loaded in drives. After the solution of the problem the tapes are automatically moved to...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Is a defect

Domino presnapshot script should monitor nservice.exe

Domino presnapshot causes error 2518 when net start "Lotus Domino Server (xDominodata)" because of presnapshot try to launch Domino Service even though nservice.exe process still live. presnapshot should watch nservice.exe process.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 2 Is a defect

Incorrect steps on windows backup archive client instalation guide

On page52, step 6, it's not clear that the key to be entered on the cluster configuration needs to EXCLUDE the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\, or the cluster won't let the key be added. I think there should be an example clarifying it. I.e., registry key HKE...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Is a defect

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.
over 12 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.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Is a defect

TSM for VE should automatically enable changed block tracking for eligible VMs when an incremental backup is attempted.

TSM for VE should automatically enable changed block tracking for eligible VMs when an incremental backup is attempted and chnged block tracking is not already enabled.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 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...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 3 Is a defect

Query Event for NDMP Backup

We want to add a new entry in the database under Summary table called Filespace or BCK_Volume or similar, This failed should include the entry of what Volume on the NetApp that TSM was backed up and if it was OK or not.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Is a defect

Moving a node to another domain should not remove it from the backup schedule automatically.

Logically the command to move the node to another domain should have failed until I removed the node from the current backup schedule as the domain is tied to the schedule. Or I would expect a message prompting to continue informing me that the no...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Is a defect

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