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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 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

why exclude.dir not favor archive?

why exclude.dir not favor archive?and there is no other option for exclude dir for archive backup.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Ability to encrypt and store dsmadmc user credentials in a local file

By default the TSM baclient encrypts node user credentials in a locally stored file. Unfortunately this functionality is not present with admin user credentials when using the Admin Client (dsmadmc). In order to automate dsmadmc commands within sc...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Restore by Tag

Hello, in case we want to restore a lot of server we must do it by rest api or by clic one per one each vms we want restore. It very painfull to do that. It would be great to restore using tag. If my environnement is balised with tags I should abl...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Customization of Client Auto-deployment Schedule

We would like to modify the auto deploy schedule in order to make it successful in our environment.In our infra, we do have multiple nodes configured for same host, hence multiple CAD services are running.After version 8.1.11, we are unable to sta...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Not under consideration

Allow replication processing of data on sequential tape media to use more than one mountpoint/session per node/filespace

Allow replication processing of data on sequential tape media to use more than one mountpoint/session per node/filespace.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

FreeBSD support for TSM Client

FreeBSD support for TSM Client
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Better estimation on tape capacity

At the moment TSM does not do any true estimation or ongoing estimation on the capacity of a tape.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Restore a VM without choose a specific /site/repository/archive cloud /etc

Hello support, We created 2 policy (SLA_site1 / SLA_site2 ) that we affected to Datastores on each site . So VM can be on the policy SLA_SITE1 or SLA_SITE2 depending of their location when we backup them. Now we want to restore a backup from a spe...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

TSM for VE: Eliminate ANS1711W warning message or change to informational.

Whenever the default backup mode is selected for a VMware VM backup (incremental forever, incremental) and a full backup has not been performed, a warning message is issued "ANS1711W Incremental backup selected for 'MLTUSAPV27', but a Full backup ...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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