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Storage Protect Family

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    Files with only ctime changes treated as unchanged by Storage Protect, creating a mismatch in mmbackup’s summary. Adding the unchanged count into Storage Protect and mmbackup’s comparison prevent “skipped files” messages.

    mmbackup builds its candidates files if there is just change in ctime. However, some files may have a modified ctime even when no metadata or data changes have actually occurred.For such files, if the IBM Storage Protect server already has the lat...
    16 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    Support incremental data transfer to cloud archive target (not require full retention set).

    Currently, the only way to send data to a cloud archive target (S3 Glacier, IBM Cloud archive or accelerated archive) is to create a retention pool and then send a retention set. When using the cloud archive target, the retention set is always a f...
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    adjust installation scripts to work with DNF and the new path for the ln binary

    For a while now (since Red Hat 7?) DNF has been the preferred way to install and manage packages on Red Hat systems. The TSM client documents explicitly say RPM should be used. With Red Hat 10 the path to the file link command (ln) changed and DNF...
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Submitted

    have supported way to easily clone a SP instance

    If customers wish to build a standard protect instance template, it cannot easily be cloned to deploy multiple protect servers. For example, each SP server has a "viewable" identity (server name), but also several hidden identifiers (unique ID # i...
    22 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Include AWS root CA in SP managed Java Key Store

    AWS has historically supported Starfield Class 2 certificate, which was part of Java packages since 2004. IBM SP Java contains that in its JKS, and it worked fine till 2025. By the end of 2025, AWS stopped the use of Starfield C2 certificate and t...
    19 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Predictable handling of encrypted EXT4 directories on Linux

    For now the error when accessing an encrypted EXT4 directory by the backup client can be ignored by a setting in dsm.sys (see support case). But this leads to the effect, that an encrypted directory will be considered in a backup if the encryption...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    Improved handling of MCDB-enabled databases by Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server

    Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server works as designed in respect to restore scenarios. But there is a challenge with exchange mailbox restores after enabling the Microsoft Exchange MetaCacheDatabase (MCDB) feature that prevents an DP4Exc...
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Submitted

    Allow Backup-Archive Client on Windows 11 Environment with Cloud Only (Azure) users

    As stated from IBM Support, Azure Users are not supported: Currently, the Spectrum Protect (TSM) Backup-Archive Client fails to run on Windows 11 if the cloud only user (Azure) is not a local administrator, even when added to the "Backup Operators...
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    Add parallelism when replicating data stored on tape

    When using node replication with data stored on tape, the SP replication process is single threaded. This means that only a single tape drive will be used when replicating a node even if there are many free/available tape drives in the tape librar...
    10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

    Support for vApp options during restoration

    We noticed that after a restore, vapp Options are disabled with the loss of the settings which was previously defined on these vapp options.
    about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Submitted

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