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Storage Protect Family

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

The enhancement of the status of the backup job on the TSM Operations Center

System: TSM Operations Center(OC)Actor: The user who wants to check the status of the backup job on the TSM OC. The TSM OC is a new console of Tivoli Storage Manager. Description: When we run the backup commands (jobs) using the TSM B/A client (CL...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

export server does not include scripts etc.

When running export server in order to import srversettings in an brand new server not everything is includen. I miss scripts, proxy settings, servr and node groups from the data exported out of the old server.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

SPP: Multiple LDAP servers required

We are using SPP 10.1.13 for backup of VM machines of customers with some project manager requiring access and some customers (vm owners) to be able to start single file restore. Our customers requires to have more than one LDAP server authenticat...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 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

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

Allow prioritisation of policies

Allow prioritization of the execution of policies based on SLA. Each SLA will have a priority number associated with it (0=no priority/undefined, 1=highest...99=lowest). When defined the policy number would would mean that when SLAs are running co...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Replication of Larger file systmes from COS

Hi Mitul, I have the answer now for the difference between client restore from cloud vs replication from cloud 1: the normal restore from the cloud was making use of the chunk cache and async read. Those tools can in some cases make the restore fr...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future 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.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration