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Design change to avoid deletion of Backup Data from a malicious hacker, mentally disturbed or very angry at his workplace

The following is a suggestion to ensure that Backup Data cannot be deleted by malicious hackers, internal Backup administrators who are very angry at their workplace or mentally disturbed. The proposal is to create a minimum of 5 Backup Admin Appr...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future 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...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Replication job 'Fails' when there is no data

We have a use case where we would like to leave replication enabled for a backup SLA that runs manually. As the job is run infrequently users will not remember to run replication when they run the job. However, SPP reports the replication job as '...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum protect support for AWS Glacier

we are using Spectrum protect 7.1.7 version to backup data to AWS S3. Our customer wants to move less frequently accessed data to Glacier to reduce cost. The AWS SLP feature can be used to achieve this but the current version of Spectrum protect d...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

add more function on TSM operation Center

• If is it possible we can setup server group, each user access Ops center, he/she can choose their server group to review and operation, • For sever webpage, is it possible to show both TSM instance name and OS host name, since we have several TS...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

TSM backup solution for KVM

We are looking for online backup solution for KVM.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Grid View of backup success rate

The current VM backup success report takes minutes to run for a 1 day report and much longer (I gave up waiting) for a 7 day report. If the Protected and Unprotected VMs report is anything to go by it could take over 2 hours to produce this report...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Change of srvmon directory to different path instead of instance path

Our instance home directory which is 20 GB in size is getting full as the hidden collection folder in srvmon directory is using up to 15 GB of the space in instance directory before it can get purged.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Execute failed VM backups within schedule

TSM for VE has been deployed as a replacement for other vendors solutions. It is being developed well but some of the core functionality is lacking, for example the ability to re-run failed backups without having to create new adhoc schedules ever...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Add PowerCLI and/or PowerShell integration to VM backup

Enable and document how a VM admin in VMware or Hyper-V can use PowerCLI og PowerShell to kick of a backup, set tags. Documentation today talks about that you can use PowerCLI to add tags for VM setting, add examples of how this is done. Look at v...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

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