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Storage Protect Family

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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

SCDM - RFE title Granular LDAP queries than trying to scan in the entire AD Domain.

Storage Copy Data Management - We currently cannot handle scale for the amount of LDAP groups that are being attempted to be loaded for a case. Based on the error displaying an "out of memory" error message, it appears that the issue is related to...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support for LSA (Local Security Authority)

It would be beneficial for everyone when it comes to security.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

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

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

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

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

FILE class mount retention

Enable MOUNTRET on FILE class volumes.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under 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

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