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Storage Protect Family

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TSM for Linux PPC

i understand version 8 will not be supported on LinuxPPC servers
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 0 Delivered

Scripts executed on client to have parameters/environment variables

When trying to implement backup with proxy nodes (and placing all data on a single target-node), a problem arises. Since backups with proxy nodes requires the ASNODE parameter, and in a hosted environment it is not desirable to create customer spe...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Delivered

Clustered Data Ontap version 9.0 GA

Unable to Backup our New Cluster running:Current Cluster Version: NetApp Release 9.0: Fri Aug 19 11:04:54 UTC 2016
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Delivered

Backup catalog/database to different site

Have the possibility to backup the catalog and SPP database to another site as the SPP server. Example, we backup now everuthing to the primary site. But for disaster recovery it would be nice to have the possibility to backup the catalogs (and SP...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Introduce Timeout in DSMCAD

By default, dsmcad doesn't have any time out value. Post Rapid Force NVA 6.6.128 upgrade, the connection of NVA Scan is not closing as expected. Post Scan of TSM Client on dynamic or dedicated dsmcad port, the connection stays as active, dsmcad se...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Delivered

Allow selection of vm backup or resore in the web gui via vmware cluster (without showing individual vmware hosts)

TSM4VE does not currently allow viewing of VMs to select for backup or restore via VM Cluster only (without hosts). Viewing VMs to backup or restore via host is very difficult to work with in large corporate environments.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Delivered

backup stgpool improvement

the 'backup stgpool' comand should be smarter.. for example if I run backup stg maxproc=4, and there is 1 process already running, it should start another 3. instead, it says 'backup stg already running' Also, another useful option would be to set...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

TSM for ERP for DB2 support on DB2 v10.5

TSM for ERP (SAP) using DB2 is not supported for DB version 10.5
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 4 Delivered

TSM Drive Support for Oracle StorageTek T10000D

We need support for the Oracle StorageTek T10000D tape drive. Should be simple, same media as the T10000C.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Delivered

cloud storage support for HCP with TSM

Please consider adding support for Hitachi HCP cloud storage on TSM server 7.x going forward.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Delivered

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