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Search results: Storage Protect Family

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Commandline restore

Commandline Restore Feature for recovering user data after reinstalling or replacing computer. Parameters needed:- server\share- oldcomputer - filter (select file e.g. "D\dir\dir")- overwrite (0 means do not overwrite newer files)
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for Workstations 2 Not under consideration

To have a progress of a scheduled job when scheduled through the Vmware Plugin.

I would like to be able to view the progress of each guest as it is getting backed up when the job is scheduled. If the job is selected to "run now" then it works. If I select schedule then there is no progress bar. Every other backup software doe...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

Allow FastBack DR Hub replication to have both a scheduled Start AND STOP time to limit impact on Business applications.

In DR Configuration / DR Scheduler / Advanced panel, add the ability to schedule a specific time for the DR Replication to Stop, on specified days. This would allow the DR Replication to start at the same time every day, but on certain days, ie we...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 2 Not under consideration

Allow FastBack DR Hub replication to have both a scheduled Start AND STOP time to limit impact on Business applications.

In DR Configuration / DR Scheduler / Advanced panel, add the ability to schedule a specific time for the DR Replication to Stop, on specified days. This would allow the DR Replication to start at the same time every day, but on certain days, ie we...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 2 Delivered

Improve interface for includes and excludes in the TSM client

Includes and excludes are difficult to configure for novice users (even for some experienced admins). I believe we could get much better adoption of TSM in our environment if there was a config wizard that would build the include/exclude files. A ...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Selectively install filesets with Auto Deployment or install only Filesets already deployed

The ability to select which filesets are installed during auto deployment. For security and system resource reasons, we install only features that will be used for each TSM Client. Auto deployment installed Hdw, HdwSnp, Image, and NAS when upgradi...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Planned for future release

Flag to not provide tivoli header messages with select statements.

A possible flag to be included on dsmadmc to NOT respond with the tivoli header messages about the server/client release information.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE Using VMware Resource Pools for backup selection

TSM for VE Using VMware Resource Pools for backup selection. vCloud director creates resource pools for each "org" or client/LOB. vCloud places the vCloud managed VM's in those resource pools.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

TSM Scratch volume selection for SCSI type libraries

1. When a tape is checked out, then checked back in, the mount count should not be reset. The count should only be set to zero when a new tape is labeled into the library or forced to zero by options. 2. Add an option to the check in command to fo...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Selective nodes for Expire Inventory

Option to be able to run selective multiple processes of Expire Inventory based on nodename, not nodeid. (addendum to request 24475). Command could be EXPIRE INVENTORY NODE=<node_name> with ability to do use node name masking: eg EXPIRE INVE...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

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