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Storage Protect Family

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Changing the default path of the Staging directory

The following technote describes a case in which files stored in the staging directory are deleted:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21692439 Instead of looking for workarounds, in the form of setting a different location in the dsm...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Support for Sony Library ODS-L30M

Support for Sony optical libraries (Sony ODS-L30M).Increase the support list in optical libraries for Spectrum Protect (TSM)
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM should support NDMP backup with VTL libtype

TSM Server should support NDMP backups with libtype VTL. It's documented that generally backups are faster when using a VTL and libtype is set to VTL instead of SCSI. Due to the limitation of TSM libtype VTL cannot be used as NDMP backups are not ...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

Changing Retention between Source and Target Replicated Nodes

We need the ability to have different retentions between on the source and target for each replicated node. That way we can store active data for the short term on the source and change the replicated node to long term retention.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Deletion of TDPSQL Legacy Backups

The ability to delete a specific Legacy backup at least through the CLI
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Not under consideration

Add client backup status, backup files, size, date details for report with dashboard to understand backup failure and success

Product Tivoli Fastbackup for workstations 7.1.4.0 We are unable to get correct meaning full report on low level for TFB clients.1.We want report with client name, user identity, start date of backup, last backup date, last backup error, successfu...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Not under consideration

Extend TSM4VE to allow for "incremental forever" VMWare backups

Need to be able to do VMWare incremental image backups without doing periodic full backups.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Planned for future release

Obtaining SnapDiff backup base snapshot name

When running an incremental SnapDiff backup on NetApp volumes from the BA client, a differential snapshot is created on the NetApp in the beginning of each backup, and compared with the base snapshot remained from the previous backup. On the end o...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

"VM-GROUPs" for VMs

Possibility to build a Group for VMs like Nodegroups for easier handling with the backup vm schedule
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

Request for Function to decompress data for Storage Pool Migration

Request for function to decompress Data for Storage Migration pool. Currently, we have difficulty to migrate the Data backed up in Physical Tape Drive to new VTL Drive (Protectier + XIV) Data backed up in current Physical Tape Drive is compress by...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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