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Storage Protect Family

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target server for replicate node

Protect should allow replicating some nodes to one target server, and other nodes to a second target server.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Manually running cloud offload per VM

Spectrum Protect Plus allows us to run VM backups manually by selecting the VM and clicking the "run" button.When we want run replication or offload we need to run the schedule.We should be able run run replication or offload jobs per VM manually ...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Write-lock files during restore operations

We regularly have to do partial restores on active systems, and/or on shares where the users still have access and can be impatient. Unfortunate experience and subsequent testing shows that no locks are placed on files while they are being restore...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Fast End-User Feeling Restore

Today are we trying to get better RTO/RPO with as less money as possible. We are also looking at to backup/restore from a cloud environment. This is always a hazel when RPO vs money. And most of the time does all the end-users only want a couple o...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Faster Single File Restore (TSM for VE) from Tape (Block Level Backup IFE)

With large capacity VM's (several TB's) that also have a requirement for long retention policies, tape is still the most cost effective storage medium.In a commercially driven environment, it is very difficult to convince customers that we require...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus - Sortable & Searchable columns in running jobs progress & job logs

Requesting sort and search functions be added to the Spectrum Protect Plus UI. Specifically in the Jobs and Operations section, while viewing a job log and progress fields.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

File-level restore option in TSM4VE with Cloud - Container Storage Pool

Ref : PMR 79682,070,724As per technote http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21659833 when using combination of TSM4VE and cloud container storage pool , the option of file level restore is not there.File level restore always needed , b...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

File Type retention storage pool

Only Tape class is supported as Retention Pool however many customer that has NAS appliance as secondary backup storage instead of Tape like to use retention set with a copy to secondary storage.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

BackupSet tape Migration

We have backupsets created on 3592-JB tapes and we need to migrate these backupsets to 3592-JD tapes.We are in the process of discarding all JB tapes and TS1130 tape drive.We will have only TS1160 tape drives which can not read JB tapes.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Add search option to backup VMs.

Adding option to search for VM's instead of opening each and every ESXI in order to find our VM.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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