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Storage Protect Family

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new feature for Exchange 2010 Online Archive

I would to restore the ONLINE ARCHIVE MAILBOX, the new feature provided by Exchange 2010; Now we are able to restore this, but only including the restore of the entire database into a RECOVERY DATABASE and after this is only possible with a lot of...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

ANS1360I message only in clientlog, but not in Servers actlog

following message in dsmsched.log: 11/23/2011 21:02:26 Normal File--> 47,610 \\server1\c$\xxx\file_name.pdfANS1360I Compressed Data Grew It is not possible to monitor this error automatically, because its only in clients error log. also it is a...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

exclude.archive.dir

Provide an exclude.archive.dir option. Without that exclude all other directories, beside the one which should be archived, are scanned and archived. That is particularly an unwanted behaviour when one want to archive a folder from a NetApp snapsh...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

Exchange 2010 with DAG backup active/passive DBs

TSM for Mail is currently making a difference if a mailbox database is active or passive (Exchange 2010 using DAG). So for each kind of backup there will be kept the defined number of versions. (e.g. 7 Versions should be kept, so if the database i...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration

Allow automatic checkin of returned DRM volumes

It would be useful to be able to checkin tapes that have come back from offsite as scratch automatically, instead of having to do a MOVE DRM on them first (or after checking in as private).
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Automation of TSM configuration

Automatically discover devices and (re-)configure TSM server/client options It's reported that our competitive products may have had such capability. Account team contacts: Ken Kelly/Waltham/IBM, Daniel R Digregorio/Waltham/IBM@IBMUS, Gary Graham/...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Working Version for tsm 6.3 on solaris 10 x86

hello, this is not really a new feature. on ibm webpages, solaris 10 x86 is "not supported" for the server and client. so it wood be good to have versions for solaris10 x86
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Support for TSM Sysback V6.1 to back up VIO servers

I would like TSM Sysback to be usable for the backup of VIO servers, and not just the virtual AIX clients running on these VIO servers. These VIO servers, which are AIX based, can then have their backups implemented on a nightly basis in the same ...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

TSM NDMP Support for EMC VNXe backups

We would like the ability to backup CIFS shares on an EMC VNXe (Low cost storage array, supports CIFS only) storage array. This would be via NDMP protocol.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

SnapProtect functionnality with TSM using VMware and LVM

SnapProtect is a new function from the nSeries. We need TSM to catalog the snapshots created by the nSeries and be able to restore file level directly from the snapshot. Other solution on the market is already available to offer this solution.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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