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Storage Protect Family

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Provide support for TSM for VE on PowerLinux (Linux-ppc64)

One of the advantages of running large backups/restores in a Power system is the use of in memory networking between LPARs. By increasing the MTU size of these inter-partition networks, we are able to get decreased backup times of several of our l...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Ability to have -vmfolder include sub-folders

In a large organisation, vmware and tsm will have different people administering them. The ability to include sub-folders would allow more flexibility.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

TDP support for Microsoft SQL Server Express

We have several customer with a mix of Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008/2012 and editions express, standard and enterprise.To keep it simple we are using tdp to backup the sql servers. Sadly SQL Server Express isn't supported.It looks like the backu...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

Use SEEK_HOLE to improve handling of sparse files during backup and restore

Backing up and restoring Linux sparse files is extremely slow.Is it possible for IBM to modify the software to use the SEEK_HOLE functionality to detect holes quickly? See details at this URL: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13252682/copying-a-...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

TSM currently can recognized different file systems types. I woud like TSM by default to be able to recognize GFS2 file syste

TSM need to be able to recognize GFS2 file systems like it does with any other file system type seen by TSM. When TSM is installed and configured it should be able to see this file system with out any manually intervention. It should be a native s...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

Documentation update regarding Deduplication enabled Storage Pools using FILE Device Class type

Documentation update referencing the importance of proper storage pool "DATAFormat" type for DEDUPLICATION enabled SEQUENTIAL ACCESS Storage Pools of FILE Device Class. As the user defines Sequential Access Storage Pool of FILE Device Class type t...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Mark and Copy from TSM GUI results

When you restore data using the Backup Archive Client, you can click the Report button to get a Detailed Status Report. If any files fail to restore, the 'Failed' number will be incremented and you can press the View button to see a list of un-res...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Enhance ACS support on TSM

Add support for multiple ACS servers on 1 TSM server.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Allow TSM client logs to be brought back to server for analysis when server staff do not have access to client file system

Allow TSM staff to bring back and use the TSM client logs to determine issues and error conditions at the time of backup failures
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Use a linux web client to do NDMP restores

There does not appear to be a way to restore a NDMP backup via a linux GUI client. This means that in order to do a restore a windows server needs to be provisioned, maintained and available purely for restoration purposes.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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