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Exchange2010 backup & Restore - Morethan one passive databases

Exchange2010 Passive DAG backup, we have 2 copies of passive databases. These are on different hosts so we wind up backing up both copies. This adds to our total occupancy as well as taking up bandwidth of the client.
almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 3 Delivered

dsmc -filelist should support files with any character in name

dsmc backup client should be able to backup files with the -filelist option where the filenames contain *, ?, " or Newline (and ^X and ^Y for the matter of fact). dsmc can backup these files when you specify the files properly quoted on the comman...
almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Delivered

TSM Admin Center(tip) needs support for Internet Explorer 8 and beyond.

TSM Admin Center - tip(tivoli integrated portal) does not support IE8 and beyond. It needs to support IE8 and beyond for currency in our environment.
almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 4 Delivered

DSMULOG to be added to Linux server versions.

DSMULOG is only AIX, this feature needs to be added to Linux server versions to provide automation options based on TSM activity without the need to run SQL code.
almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

FCM managing Exchange 2010 DAG backups as same objects for both active and passive nodes.

RFE: FCM must manage backups taken from Exchange 2010 active and passive nodes in DAG configuration as same objects and keep the versions accordingly. That means expiration is done independent of being active or passive. That will help to provide ...
almost 14 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Delivered

TSM for VE: Instant Restore for full VM Restore

Currently TSM for VE only supports near instant restore for singe disks/volumes/file systems. For a restore of a whole virtual machine, no instant restore is possible. One possibility to provide this functionality would be following: 1. Make the T...
almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Delivered

TSM V6: Show Us the Tables, Please

Please expose to the SELECT command in TSM V6 (and later, if any) all of the internal tables that TSM uses, with exceptions for things like passwords and other sensitive information.
almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Delivered

FlashCopy Manager should support also NetApp for Flash copies under Unix

The FlashCopy Manager supports currently only the IBM subsystems DS8000, SVC, V7000 and XIV. Many customers are using NetApp storage because of their comprehensive snapshot and replication functionality. These customers want to use TSM as the Unif...
almost 14 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 5 Delivered

Exclude Single Disks during FULLVM-Backup

The TSM for VE module needs to be enhanced in order to give the possibility to exclude single disks while performing a FULLVM backup of a virtual machine. This enhancement will result in tremendous data reduction.
almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 5 Delivered

TSM support for Centera devices on 64bit Windows OS's

Currently, while TSM 6.2 is supported on 64bit Windows (such as Windows 2008 R2), and the EMC Centera APIs are also supported on 64bit Windows as of the current 3.2 fp5 release, TSM server does not support connectivity to Centera devices on 64bit ...
almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

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