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DB backup not running on all nodes in oracle

we have customers with oracle DBs that have some DBs registered in all nodes but that are not running in all nodes, and the SPP cannot backup these DBs, it is necessary to make the SPP capable of doing so
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Needs more information

Pick a backup to offload in a cloud object storage or SP as archive

Hello support, I would like to know if it is possible to pick a backup that i want to offload in a cloud object storage or SP.We can define a SLA to to it as a politic. But the goal is to do it in onetime. example:do an incremental backup every da...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

backup hyper-v 2012 the backup is work but we have error 12

We have backup server with windows 2012r2 and we install IBM SPECTRUM PROTECT SERVER 8.1.6 we have hyper-v 2012 r2 with 12 hosts with cluster , we install ibm spectrum protect for hyper-v 8.1.6 i want to backup only two vritual machines with linux...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

DBMEMPERCENT Parameter do not allow value smaller 10

Parameter DBMEMPERCENT do not allow value smaller than 10. On a AIX System with a lot of Memory are 10% as minimum for DBMEMPERCENT for small TSM Instances too many.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

SnapDiff backup for volumes mounted to a junction point

NetApp's best practice recommends that volumes on a svm should be mounted to some junctions points not to the root volume (/). The result is that people cannot backup the FlexVols using SnapDiff. I understand APAR IT11729 has a fix for volumes mou...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Loss of change block tracking files

Implement a mechanism allowing in the event of loss or corruption of CBT files not to redo a full backup.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Integrity control for stored datas on vsnap

Set up an integrity check to validate that the data that was copied to the vsnap server are valid.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Automated Rerun of TSM Schedules

I propose that additional client schedule options are added to customise the behaviour and reporting of the backup success.<br /><br />This would be achieved by adding an option to automatically re-run the backup as a whole a number of...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Container Storage Interface support of Endurance storage and Portworx storage.

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Container Storage Interface currently do not support Endurance storage or Portworx.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Simultaneous-write CMOD / Dual Copy on Archive Spectrum Protect Server

Currently we have the API Client in use for storing ARCHIVE Object on Spectrum Protect Server as archive object. During normal operation we defined on Storage Pool level simultaneous-write on all. We found a lack on functionality, when these CopyP...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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