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Storage Protect Family

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    Enhancment to replicate node commando to only replicate nodes in send or sendsync mode

    I try to create setups without and errors or warnings from housekeeping scripts.I also try to work with opt-out mechanisms as much as possible for customers that agree to use that backup philosophy. When you build a two-way replicating Spectrum Pr...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Oracle dataguard support

    We are changing our environment to separate failure domains across data center. To be safe but nearly synchronous our Oracle database will be (nearly) synchronized by Oracle dataguard based on Oracle ExaCC.To continue the backup solution with the ...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Add Support for IBM Spectrum Scale SafeguardCopy in Spectrum Protect as enhanced Cybercrime Solution for the Spectrum Protect Server Platform

    In the area of cyberattacks its necessary to enhance the data-security in Spectrum Protect Installations. These attacks are coming. If we can immplement the scale safeguard Copy function in an spectrum protect installation for our GPFS Conf, DB, l...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Oracle Agentless Cold Backups

    IBM Spectrum Protect PlusOracle Agentless COLD Backups Current versions of IBM SPP only support Hot backups. Our customer has all they Development environment with Oracle in non Archive log mode. Causing SPP not a viable option to implement backups.
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Support for RHEL 9

    Now when SPP is not going to be future develop and we need to run a VMware Backups using Dark Site software we falling back to IBM Storage Protect for VMware and we have test it on a RedHat Enterprise Server 9.2 and it works fine accept the servic...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Under review

    Update vSnaps over SPP GUI / Dashboard

    We would like to be able to update one or more vSnaps through the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus GUI / Dashboard.Currently we have to update the vSnaps manually via the cli on the vSnap server itself.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    dsmadmc login prompt when using MFA

    When logging in to dsmadmc having MFA activated on the account you do not get any indication on the password prompt that this is active. Suggestion either have a message that you need to enter password plus mfa code Or Rather Present the mfa passw...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    Improve disk to tape data migration by allowing multiple threads to read data from disk in parallel

    Spectrum Protect (SP) server data migration performance from disk to tape is limited by the data throughput reading data from disk. In this situation the SP server was reading data from disk (flash) with about 90MB/sec.The SP server internal instr...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect faster backup and restore for Filer

    Spectrum Protect's Backup by General Storage's MAGS parallelizes the process of checking objects for changes. As a result, this time-consuming part of the backup on file servers is massively accelerated.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    installation image for physical vSnap servers

    IBM provides vsnap server OVAs für virtualized vsnap servers.In some customer situations it would be helpful to have also a fully supported installation image for physical vsnap servers including update images.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

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