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Storage Protect Family

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need to backup ndmp type=snapmirror to container storage pool

Almost all (avout 95%) the netapp backup in Ben -Gurion unuversity, based on ndmp backup with type=snapm.This is very large volume's, includ the volumes of exchange database's.We do backup to evry volume once a month, all the month we have daily s...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Improve NQR Performance

When doing an NQR on Nodes with tens of millions of files, the initial TSM database search and sort operation which takes place on the server takes several hours. We noticed that the hardware resource utliziation (CPU, DB2 Disks) is not very high ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Node replication at lower priority

Ability to have 'repl node' command run at a lower, or user definable, priority.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

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

Decommissioning Commands

To implement a "DECOM NODE" command so node is automatically renamed as per default configuration and data to be automatically deleted when provided retention period is reached
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Planned for future release

REST API as part of build test plan

The REST API is not being tested prior to packaging new Operation Center builds. This was found in 8.1.4 because a module version was upgraded, but not updated in the server.xml file. No one in L1 nor L2 knew about this issue, but it was immediate...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Not under consideration

Manage Automatic Move Container process

Create an option to manage the time that the IBM Spectrum Protect server can start the Automatic Move Container processes.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TSM4VE - requirement of Windows proxy for file-level restore in Linux environments

Setting up a TSM4VE file-level restore for Linux in a Linux only environment requires a Windows based TSM4VE proxy. Customer requested support for a Linux only based TSM4VE proxy instead.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 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

Replication job shows as error

SPP shows a replication job as a failure, but only because there was nothing to replicate not because of an actual error. Perhaps the error message type could be changed here so the job doesn't fail.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration