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Storage Protect Family

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STA path need to update after drive replacement

As an example of TS3200 LTO6 drives which we have in our infra whenever we found any drive issue and after replacement of this drive we are getting new serial number and same we are updating on tsm server with below command upd dr libraryname driv...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 0 Functionality already exists

Add error handling to dsmc to avoid looping asking questions to non-existent terminal

dsmc does not handle End Of File (EOF) on stdin gracefully when the situation arises that it needs to prompt and ask a question. Instead of realizing that there is no terminal attached and abort gracefully it gets stuck in a loop forever saying: T...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Planned for future release

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

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

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

Improve information in ANR3605E messages

Any ANR3605E message which appears in the server activity log does not indicate which storage agent is the subject of the communication failure. In large LAN-free environments (10s or 100s of storage agents) this can make identifying the source of...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 0 Not under consideration

Allow Spectrum Protect Plus to restore database to different instance using existing database name

I backup a database EXAMPLE on one server(prodserver) under instance Prodinst1. I have a test server(testserver) with instance Testinst1. As part of testing, our developers use testserver/TestInst1 database EXAMPLE. SPP backs up the database on pr...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 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

enhancement to the query system command

Using q sys to collect serverinfo is a good way to gather information in case a PMR is opened.There are however a few things i'm missing in this command.1) For copygroups it's not possible to see the destination stgpool, either includeq copyg * ac...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

SnapDiff to tape

Add feature to make incremental/differential backups of Netapp volumes to tapes base on changed blocks. A New Backup Architecture for NAS Systems - SnapDiff V3 (netapp.com)
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Needs more information

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