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Storage Protect Family

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DB Backup Requirements

Design of DB Backup of ISP is not optimal. One of Requirements for DB Backup is "free 8GB" on Actlog and Mirrorlog partitions for temporary operations.For Actlog and Mirrorlog will be used expensive storage and parts of them can be used only for f...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

SPP SQL restore should have an option to restore to a different directory

There is no option to restore a SQL backup to a different directory. IBM support tested it and only option is to choose a different db name which will be unique and not affect the Sql instance already there.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SSD Cache for Archive backup extraction

we are using SP as a backup repository in order to archive backups from SPP to tape. during archive backup. the data is compress at the vsnap, stored to colddatacache pool and then migrated to tape on the SP server. the restoration process is the ...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

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

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

Avoid restore from copy pool when primary pool is of type VTL

Currently, when backup data is stored in both a primary and a copy pool, TSM restores this data from the pool where the data is located on less tapes. The disadvantage of this method: When using a VTL for the primary pool and physical tape for the...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Report Restore VM in SPP

Auditor person want to report restore same as menu function report vm backup history but in ibm spectrum protect plus not have
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Not under consideration

Set access for TDPO Database as read-only

a function in the TDPO that allows the database to do the same as the "set access" option for a normal node. i.e. for a possibility to grant read-onlyaccess to a backups taken with Data Protection for Oracle.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

On install OC accept unaccepted characters in the password , installation fails later on.

On install of Operations Center one is requested to enter a password, a list of special character is listed however the installer at this point do not check if the password I enter is valid. The installation continues but hangs later on installing...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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