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Storage Protect Family

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TSM does not allow versioning of file-attributes only

TSM does not offer any possibility to do a backup with version control for only(!) the standard UNIX-file-permissions. In fact, TSM does not allow to backup the file-perms only, with or without versioning.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Allow configuration of filespace for Hyper-V backups

When you backup a Hyper-V VM using the "backup vm" command, the files representing the VM are stored in their own filespace. This effectively excludes them from expiration on deletion, as filespace aren't subject to expiration. When a VM is delete...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Multiple data movers

Multiple data movers
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Enumerate VMs to be backed up

Enumerate VMs to be backed up
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environment support availability for vSphere 6.7

When wil be available support for vsèphere vcenter 6.7 ? vCenter plugin is not working on version 6.7
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Add tdp client for MSSQL on linux

TDP for MSSQL needed on Linux systems
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

TSM for Space Management - file expiration

The current release of TSM for Space Management (Unix) has a migfileexpiration option that "Specifies the number of days a copy of a migrated or premigrated file remains in storage after it is modified on your local file system, or deleted from yo...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 3 Not under consideration

Automatic Backup of DB when Active Log becomes full

when the Active Log become full the TSM Server Crashes. why not implement the same functionality as Archive Log ?? Archive Log when it reaches 80% a database backup is triggered to be able to reclaim space
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Exclude a Linux disk from TSM for VE backup

On Linux virtual machines, exclude disks from TSM/VE backups by their scsi number (e.g. scsi0, scsi1). TSM/VE can query Virtual Center, so it should know everything from that about each virtual machine and its disk(s).
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

move nodedata by backup date

I would like to have the option to use the MOVE NODEDATA command with a selection of a range of backup dates. As it is today the finest selection is based on the filespace, but inside the filespace there are several backup dates, that could be sel...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration