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Storage Protect Family

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Avoid dropping instance while upgrade

Upgrading to current IBM Spectrum Protect Version drops instance during installation in silent mode although settings in responsefile to not touch/update the DB were set.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Remote Cloning support for ProtecTIER native replication setups (will also work for all alternatively replicated data)

Implement support for Remote Cloning of "alternatively" replicated data. This request ist written with having IBM ProtecTIER native replication in mind.Implement some kind of "single domain behaviour" into TSM to have a TSM storage agent running o...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 6 Not under consideration

SpectrumProtectPlus Feature add

Government Audit requirement, customer is requesting. Is there a way on the back end to rename an SLA without impact existing backup data in SPP? 2. Can an editable “description” field be added to the SLA object in the SPP dashboard so we can indi...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Detailed progress screen for cloud offload and replication operations.

On the Spectrum Protect Plus backup screen, we can see detailed information about the backed up machines and the process in the progress section.But we cannot see detailed information during replication and cloud offload operations.Replication and...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Support for wildcards in directory restore command.

Support for wildcards in directory restore command.We want to have same wildcard ussage for Query backup command and Restore command. Now are wildcards in restore command restricted to be used in the file name or extension; they cannot be used in ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Ability to restore a mailbox to a PST without connecting to an Exchange Server

Customers require to restore mailbox without needing to connect to an Exchange Server
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

encryptkey with LAN-free does not work on Spectrum Protect v8.1.6

End User upgrade their IBM Spectrum Protect to version 8.1.6. They requested to have client encryption to fulfill their security requirements. However, the client encryption function that supported before is told no longer working now ("encryptkey...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

speed up backup stgpool for file pools with dataformat=nonblock

On a SP server, we have lots of data from a CM8 environment, e.g. very many small files. About half of it from ICC and the other half from d3. 99% of this data is stored in FILE pools with DATAFORMAT=NONBLOCK because otherwise SP would cause a sto...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect backup of massive sparse file /var/log/lastlog on linux

From the customer: I found five RedHat-based Linux clients that were ultimately waiting for tape mounts because they were trying to back up the massive sparse file /var/log/lastlog. This file reports as being 480GB in size, even though it is actua...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Renaming MDF & LDF files during restore

Hello, The renaming of source MDF and LDF files for MSSQL DB during restore operation is basic functionality of any backup/restore software. It provides effective way how to store and structuralize files of DB. Since restored DB is usually new DB ...
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

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