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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
over 6 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.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SP Plus - Start Copy job/replication job when Main policy is complete

Possibility to define in a SLA that a "Additional Copy" or "Replication" Should only begin when the "Primary" job is no longer running.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP Container backup support unsupported storage class exclusion

We wish to have a better exclusion feature for currently unsupported storage classes.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Select datastore per VMDK during restore

When performing a restore it should be possible to select destination datastore for each VMDK-file.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

ISPP - reduce required free space in VG for DB2 backup

Currently when protecting db2 with ISPP you need to have 20% free space in the VG containing the DB2 database to accommodate the LV snapshots taken during ISPP DB2 backup. This additional storage requirement increases backup costs which can add up...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add possibility to choose SPP GUI communication IP when deploying VADP proxy

When having multiple IPs for SPP GUI / VADP proxys, it's not possible to choose the communication IP for the VADP proxys to communicate with the SPP GUI host.This is only possible by accessing the VADP server itself and running a script "update_va...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP: Implement link feature for jobs

Currently SPP only offers a job scheduling by time. To leverage the backup (and replication) window at a maximum, it would be great to have a "link feature" for jobs.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

non-root users access behaviour with version SP 8

Customer needs for SP version 8 to allow "other users" (non-root users and not "authorized users" for SP point of view) to use dsmc in order to restore their files The requirement is to continue with behaviour as per TSM 7.16 (https://www.ibm.com/...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Allow "restriced" Account for Hypervisor Inventory

Today it is required a) to create an account for the communication between the Spectrum Protect Plus appliance and the VMware vCenterb) assign permissions for that account within the vCenter "top down" from the vCenter level including inheritance ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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