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Update documentation to configure multiple dsmcad services on RHEL 7.x

Please update the documentation about "Manually configuring multiple client acceptor services on a Linux system" (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSERB6_8.1.2/ve.inst/t_ve_cfg_setmulticadslnx.html) for RHEL 7.xBasically, the technote 2...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Add extra filesystem check in linux BA client

After you added support for BTRFS and NFSv4 the new filesystem check has problems to find and verify autofs mounted filesystems on Linux systems. Automounted filesystems will get backed up and you end up with terabytes of extra data in the backup ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect FreeBSD client

I would like to request support for Spectrum Protect Client that runs natively on FreeBSD.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Locking mechanism for TSM oldest backup

There is no locking mechanism in TSM to prevent the oldest backup from expiring during the restore operation unless the expiration process is stopped.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Not under consideration

Dedupstats continuous update

Having an option to enable background updating of dedupstats is preferred to running 'update dedupstats *' every day. 'update dedupstats' should only have to be run if information in dedupstats has become inconsistent.This could be a background pr...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect TDP for VE - restore procedure for one of the VMDK should allocate only the space of that VMDK

TDP for VE, restore one of multiple source hard disks of a VM. The disk to restore is 50GB another disk of the source VM is 2TB, actually the product allows to restore the small (50GB) disk only after allocating the whole space that was used by th...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect AD LDAP enhancement for multiple AD domains

As of now Spectrum Protect can authenticate against single AD domain. However, we have Spectrum protect administrators from multiple different regions around the globe and administrators from each region have AD account on their own AD domain. For...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Full VM restore with HD 1 only

The question is, how to restore the VM without having All Hard Disks, beside "Hard Disk 1" being created and allocated in the datastore. We do backup of "Hard disk 1" only for a VM, see attached "SPFILOPS17 backup detail.jpg" When we restore the V...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

SPP - DB validation prior to tape restore

Requesting that IBM complete a precheck of the system/DB target prior to the starting of the tape restore using Production mode. The case referenced above - TS006352692 was generated after waiting 36 hours for the tape restore and failure could ha...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add FLR support for BTRFS in Spectrum Data Protection for Virtual Environments

File Level Restores for BTRFS subvolumes do not work out of the box when using any of the restore interfaces with Spectrum Data Protect for Virtual Environments. Remounting the iSCSI presented snapshot allows for correct mount, but yes, this invol...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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