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TSM Not Backing Up AD LDS Files

TSM doesn't seem to be backing up the primary files for the AD LDS (Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services) application installed on a couple of my servers. Please see the attached Word document for more details and screenshots. Client: O...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

TSM USB Gen 6 DDS Drive Support

Hi there, Please find the scenario of the following:TSM 6.3.4IBM gen 6 USB dds tape drive That's for your confirmation of whether the DDS tape drive in question is supported by TSM 6.3.4 as we cannot identify the tsm name type with tsmdlst.exe in ...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

TSM client support on Oracle Linux

The customer uses TSM product as one of the corporate standard backup solutions. He has a plan to implement some systems on Oracle Linux 6.4 and has raised the request that TSM 6.4 backup-archive client should be supported on the Oracle Linux. Ker...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Backupset Enhancements 222

Backupsets as Rapid Restore Archives (RRA) contain active data only. This means it drops data unlike competitors where a version is created and then deleted, it is not archived. This is counter-intuitive. If a point-in-time policy greater than 31 ...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Force override of profiles from configuration manager

Whenever the configuration manager fails to update on targets, an admin should be able to either force the profile to a target, or on the target allow replacement. To reenable subscription is a long process where ALL nodes must be moved to tempora...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Expiration only backup

Would like to have the ability to run an expiration scan on a client. We currently have to back up some clients with millions of files - due to ram limitations we are using a filelist. With that expiration does not occur. Would it be possible to r...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Add TSM linux client to use syslog to log errors

TSM Linux b/a client is not able to write error logs to syslog facilities.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Create parameter IFDIFFERENT for client option REPLACE.

Add a parameter for the TSM client option REPLACE .This parameter would be called something like IFDIFFERENT. This parameter would behave in a similar fashion to REPLACE=NO except it WOULD replace the file on the filesystem if it was dif...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Obtaining SnapDiff backup base snapshot name

When running an incremental SnapDiff backup on NetApp volumes from the BA client, a differential snapshot is created on the NetApp in the beginning of each backup, and compared with the base snapshot remained from the previous backup. On the end o...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

backup and restore to windows cifs share without explicitly using net use

Currently in order to backup a windows cifs share, to do a snapdiff or otherwise, you need to issue a "net use" as a pre command to a scheduled backup. This is an extra step in configuration/scripting that shouldn't be necessary. This also makes i...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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