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Storage Protect Family

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    Multiple Storage Protect Server DB backup on one tape

    Currently SP only supports storing one internal DB backup per volume. If using tape (as recommended) e.g. LTO9 this results in using a 18 TB tape volume for storing only 100 GB database backup. Running 20 instance and doing 2 DB backup per day kee...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

    SP DP for SQL on windows server 2025

    Having customers already installing server 2025, and are in need of a working DP from SP.
    8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Future consideration

    Node Replication for NDMP Node

    Node Replication for NDMP Node feature in not available in Spectrum Protect Server
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    Allowing multiple node to store data

    Hello! Since we are using SPVE to back up our VMware servers, all of the VMs are backed up into a single node on the Storage Prottect Server. For an extra layer of security, we've enabled the node replication on this node to send the data to AWS u...
    11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Under review

    vSnap recovery from ISP offload

    vSnaps of spectrum protect plus are at the moment secured by replicating the data to another vSnap. Currently only the backup data are offloaded through S3, but not the metadata vSnap needed to recover itself in case of crash or cyber attack. We ...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Replication Job shows as "Error" if no data is there to process

    When using the replication of vSnap backup storage data and no "new" backup data is available in the source vSnap, SPP identifies the replication job as "Error" which is not true.In fact, just no new data is available in the source vSnap server. S...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    ISPP support multiple networks for VSNAP and ESXi hosts

    We have a admin LAN and a Backup Lan, it is currently not possible however to control which Network is used for the different dataflows.1) ESXi servers can have multiple interfaces however ISPP always uses the ESX management lan for restore/nfs mo...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Introduce support for AD objects & containers

    Introduce support for AD objects & containers
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Enable selective VMDK based restore for "Production Restore (Disk Replace)"

    Starting with version 10.1.7 it is possible to restore only the VMDK's of a VM without restoring the configuration data of the VM.This restore mode is named "Production Restore (Disk Replace)". This restore mode does a restore of all VMDK's of a V...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Backup database to s3/cloud - support for immutability

    Cloud container pool has support for immutability and if you store data there, it makes sense to also be able to store the database backup in cloud with immutability. Currently, database can be stored in cloud, but no immutability.
    9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

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