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Search results: Storage Protect Family

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Point in Time directory restore selection from GUI

When performing a point in time restore through the GUI, would like to be able to navigate through any directories.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Planned for future release

mutually exclusive install options

When installing the TSM Server Code, the selection is available to install both the Server and the Storage Agent. Having both installed is not supported by IBM. The install code should be changed such that if both are selected for installation at ...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Full VM restores place the VM in the parent Datacenter folder and Resource group

When doing a full VM restore and selecting "Original Location", the VM is restored to the parent Data Center folder and parent Resource group in Virtual Center. Given VM permissions can be managed at the folder level in Virtual Center, when a rest...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Delivered

Display restore/ retreive size prior to performing action.

Be able to find the amount of data that is to be restored given the current selection in the GUI/web client.Using the cli you can run a q backup <filspec> -subdir=yes -querysummary To get a total file count, size, est number of tapes etcThis...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Enable -snapshotroot option with -filelist option on dsmc command

The TSM BA client dsmc command does not currently support the usage of the -snapshotroot option concurrently with the -filelist option when performing selective backups. We would like to use both of these options together when using the the dsmc c...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Delivered

Enhancement needed to reduce the number of virtual volumes

When a storagepool is based on a server type device class (i.e. virtual volumes), it is difficult to reduce the number of volumes using move data commands. This is because when the input volume is done, the process ends and the output volume is cl...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

fastback server CDP

this is for TSM FASTBACK 6.1.x.x. IBM 5724-U93there is a CDP option in he Job Schedules.When a restoring from such backup , there is a timeline showing up and the time of the desired point of recovery can be selected. The great idea with CDP , is ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 3 Not under consideration

It takes a long time to start / terminate TSM Server after DB backup

After db backup, TSM server does not quickly start or terminate because of waiting for expanding a truncated log of DB2. A real case at solaris environment is that it took 14 minutes to stop TSM server. That means it wiil also take 14 minutes to s...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Data on client option and feature exploitation

There have been over the years a large number of TSM client options and enhancements whose use is not easily recognized by a TSM server. For example, if a Windows TSM client is using journal-based backups, that�s not obvious to TSM server administ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

A script to invoke a Fastback backup on an Exchange 2010 DAG that selects only passive database copies

We would like an option, when backing up databases in an Exchange 2010 DAG, to ignore active databases and just back up passive copies.Ideally, we also need a method to detect recently running/completed backups on other passive copies on different...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for Microsoft Exchange 2 Not under consideration

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