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IBM Spectrum Protect define replication server can use multiple ip on tsm server

we want define replication server use multiple ip on tsm server . or can we use hostname for replication server and then add multiple ip resolve onetc/hosts ?
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

TDP for VE: execution of scheduled backups can not be viewed, but manual executions can

TSM for VE admin needs all funcionality in his workspace, the TDP for VE GUI , therefore visibility of scheduled backups required even though actually not executed by TDP for VE;
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect soporta buckets S3 en IBM COS de tipo Standard, Archive y Accelerated, queremos solicitar que también soporte Cold Vault, Vault y Smart Tier.

Spectrum Protect soporta buckets S3 en IBM COS de tipo Standard, Archive y Accelerated, queremos solicitar que también soporte Cold Vault, Vault y Smart Tier.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect and Federated Catalog

An Active Active solution with a Federated Catalog.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

TSM4VE - Hyper-V: Do not leave open snapshots after IFFULL or IFINCR backups

System: Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments / Hyper-V component. Description: By leaving open snapshots and actually writing on that snapshot and not parent disk, additional space is acquired that customer's storage has not been designed for.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Need Plus to "recognize" cloned Oracle Database, keep it on the SLA to continue backups, possibly with tagging, or backup of all databases from a host with the option to exclude.

Regular cloning for Oracle Databases for patching process, which also moves the binaries, but maintains the inventory. Patched clone is then set as the production database. Need Plus to recognize the new Oracle as the production, keep it with the ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

TSM-VE: Improve the datamover backup tasks distribution, and improve the load balancing options available to the datamover

We have seen in many large TSM-VE implementation that the multithread options from TSM-VE 6.4 is a good feature, but has its limit relatively quickly.I think we should have a way to identify and display the load pushed on ESXi hosts & clusters...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Differential retention of replicated backup data coming from databases like DB2

Submitting on behalf of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee. Customer would like Spectrum Protect and DB2 to cooperate on retention of backup data from databases such that it could be retained at a primary site for a longer amount of time than it ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Server migration processing should be able to use more than 1 process with data from only 1 node in the primary disk pool

Server migration processing (from disk to tapes) should be able to use more than 1 process in order to use multiple tape drives in parallel emptying the disk pool despite data in the primary disk pool is from 1 node only.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Backups of Hard links

Backup of Hard linked files will backup the data blocks once for every hard link.This behavior, where TSM treats all links as regular files, is not optimal since a backup will need to transfer the data more than needed.This should be optional so t...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration