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Storage Protect Family

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    New Client Option to force backup by file attribute change

    Configuration: Linux/UNIX Filesystem B/A Client Problem: After a chmod or chown command on a file, it is not possible to go back to the state before customers change when a new file backup was made. Because only the attribute in the DB was...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    move stgpooldir command

    I'd like to se a command likemove stgpooldir <oldstgpooldir> <newstgpooldir>that move all containers in one stgpooldir to another automatiacally and in the background.or change the move container command to accept wildcard and a maxnum...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Output of prepare command need to be send via OC email or copied to an S3 target to support Airgap protection

    Output of prepare command need to be send via Operation Center email report (for multiple servers) or copied to an S3 target (e.g. prepare devclass=cloud) to support Airgap protection. Optionally the S3 bucket should be WORM protected.
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    Implement SMTP Authenticated access for Operation Center

    Currently in all Spectrum Protect versions, we can only connect to an open mail relay in order to send email alerts or reports via the operations center. However the new trend today is to have the mail servers located in the cloud and any access t...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 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 7 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 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    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
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Containerpool Backup to File Device Class

    Add support for backup of Directory Container Pools to Copypools using File Device Class.
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    Select datastore per VMDK during restore

    When performing a restore it should be possible to select destination datastore for each VMDK-file.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Support less than 1 day of Oracle archlogs to be kept on system

    ISPP leaves a archive logs on an Oracle system for a certain amount of time, which is needed for recovery, altough Logs are also stored in ISPP on the vSnap share.Unfortunately this amount of time is set in days, so the least time is one day, whic...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

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