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Storage Protect Family

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Ability to use VMware backup to recover SQL database

Customer have several hundered SQL servers of various importance. Customer want the ability to not only truncate SQL logs as part of the backup but also protect the SQL servers and use that backup to recover/re-use SQL databases.Customer want to d...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Enable a search field for select a Virtual Machines into the IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments console.

Having a several vcenters, and into each Vcenter a huge among of virtual machines, it is hard to find one a VM to selected it to backup. We waste of time looking for these VMs, when we do not know which Vcenter it belong, so we need to display all...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Select Node, which using Encryption, from Server

We have system with nearly 11000 nodes and I would like to know as Server-Administrator, which nodes have encrypted data and can be affected by some changes.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under 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

Change (add) blocksize to 256K for backup NDMP for HNAS to Tape

Hello,We were faced with the slow speed of data backup via NDMP protocol from Hitachi NAS device. Hitachi said that our backup speed through IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.9 will increase 3 times if you Add and make a choicethe block size during backup....
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Hadoop support by SPP

Ability to backup and restore Hadoop data with Spectrum Protect Plus
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

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

TSM Library Audit command enhancement

We have TS3500 libraries that we try to do monthly audits on. In order to do the audits, all the drives in the library must be idle, unmounted. As we have grown, there is rarely if ever an instance when all the drives are idle, therefore, we canno...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 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

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