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Storage Protect Family

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disable encryption during replication

We provide datacenter service, enterprise backup and disaster recovery services to our customers. That's why we need to backup our customers' data under the SLA we have committed.As we tested we are not satisfied about Spectrum Protect Plus's repl...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

Restoring deleted data on Object Storage

We provide datacenter and data protection service over Spectrum Protect Plus to our customers.We also provide cloud service over Zadara, added Zadara as S3 compatible on Spectrum Protect Plus. Zadara has a feature that enables us to restore a dele...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

'dsmc i' should never re-backup restored-unchanged files

'dsmc i' should never re-backup restored-unchanged files
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

improve flexibility of Spectrum Protect Plus SLA association with Vcenter folders and vms

present SPP design limitation don't well support SLA association with Vcenter folders and vms simultaneously. the association operations on folders and vm under same folder may cause VM failed to be associated with expected SLA as expected. custom...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Is a defect

Lanfree Backup to COS/S3/Blob Storage

Enable Lan free backup support for Multi Cloud. Allow nondedup container pool.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Adding Mmgt-Class to the "query event" output

There is a customer requirement to generate a report from event table .. to have a daily overview from client backup .. to have start time, endtime, and status from each backup. Additionally the customer need the output from the client, which Mgmt...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Functionality already exists

Restore VM with excluded hard disks requires to much space on datastore

I want to restore a VM under a new name and exclude all data disks from that vm for the restore. Only the disk containing the operating system should be restored. When I invoke that restore with the option "vmdk=Hard Disk 1", only the VM and the d...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect required two separate solutions for virtual and physical systems

My client needs two separate solutions for virtual and physical systems. They need IBM Spectrum Protect Plus for virtual systems and Spectrum Protect for physical systems, and that's a pain. It would be an improvement if they were combined.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Functionality already exists

Database impossible to Backup and migrate to other platforms

Before assisting a customer using Windows that wanted to migrate to using UNIX, my client did not see any drawbacks to IBM Spectrum Protect. However, IBM Spectrum Protect does not offer an option to migrate from other operating systems. Additional...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Functionality already exists

MOVE DATA command enhancement (2)

After years of operations we have tens of thousands of tiny virtual volumes in TSM all belonging to one node. For example, QUERY VOL TSM-SERVER.BFS.106394469 F=D Volume Name: TSM-SERVER.BFS.106394469 Storage Pool Name: SERVER_ARCHIVE Device Class ...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration