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Storage Protect Family

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Add preview support to restore

Ability to run a restore in preview mode that outputs what would be restored if the restore was to be run with the given parameters. Ability to restore only those affected files into another location
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Journal Based Backup Identification

Request is to be able to identify nodes using journal based backups from a query to the Spectrum Protect Server
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

dsmmigundelete command re-create stub files for individual files

When space management migrate file to TSM storage, a stub file created in place of the original file, in some case, user need to recover one or more stub files because it deleted by mistake, and if these file are not protect by B/A client, the onl...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic migation of the TSM DB and Log volumes from one OS volume to another.

We need to migrate the TSM DB and log volume from one Os volume to another dynamically. WE have performed this activity in the previous version of TSM and it worked perfect. Seems like that capability is missing in the newer versions.. For Ex: I u...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Migrate data from one cloud storage pool to another cloud storage pool

We need feature to migrate data from one cloud container storage pool to another cloud container storage pool using "move nodedata" as it's currently only support sequencial storage pool but won't support container storage pools
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

RENAME COLLOCGROUP command requested

Provide the ability to rename collocation groups with a command similar to RENAME COLLOCGROUP.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect (TSM) version 7.1.7 certification with Informix ONBAR 12.10

I want to know if the product Spectrum Protect (TSM) version 7.1.7 is certified to work with Informix ONBAR 12.10
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Migration process should skip locked files

Under certain conditions, the TSM server will try to migrate volumes that are locked by client backup sessionsl and simply wait for the volume to free up. This happens on a long-running (slow) backdup, or when a session does not terminate properly...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Select All function in search result of BAClient GUI for NAS restore

Select All function in search result of BAClient GUI for NAS restore
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Restore Performance of an SQL Database using ISP4VE

When using Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environment with Application Consistent Backup for SQL Databases, the restore Performance for SQL Database is far to slow.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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