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Storage Protect Family

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dismount vol * state=idle

For maintenance on a physical or virtual library it is sometimes needed to unmounts all tapes from a library. To do this you have to set devc to mountl=0 and cancels all processes and backups on LIBCLs using this library. Afterwards all drives are...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

halt command should do a complete and clean halt by option

Currently the halt command stops all processes but does not unmounts mounted volumes. In an LIBCL LIBMG environment you cannot use the drives until some timeouts will recycle the drives or the use in not confirmed to LIBMG (ANR8925W Drive x in lib...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Store GPFS metadata blob as in the database, rather than as file data

The GPFS data blob (which contains the file metadata, including the ACL's, storage pool assignment, atime, etc) is currently stored with the data, rather than in the database as metadata. This means that potentially very large amounts of data are ...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

DB2 is backingup empty spaces

- The fastest way to backup is to not back it up at all. Change DB2 backup method so that just "used" spaces are backedup. If "empty" spaces is still needed because of "performance reasons, than consider using posix_fallocate / fseek etc during re...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

mark recovery points as corrupt if volume/container is irretrievably destroyed or damaged

If a volume is destroyed, is audited with discarddata=yes or otherwise cause to or found to be damaged but cannot be repaired, there are potentially corrupt recovery points. In the case of TSM for VE, the ideal behavior would be to mark all potent...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

snapdiff to update last backup fields in filespace data

Could you please update the TSM snapdiff client to update the lastbackup information of filespaces when a "query filespace f=d" is issued. This would be the obvious behaviour and would be inline with the documented meaning of the columns This limi...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 5 Not under consideration

Remove the dross from VM backups

Page/swap space continuously changes, so every time you do a vm backup, this space will get backed up again. Also due to the totally random nature of the contents, it will not deduplicate will. It may be just a few Gigs/vm, but over multiple versi...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Linux StorageAgent installs via RPM

With the release of TSM 7 there is no longer an RPM released to install the TIVsm-stagent package in Linux.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 0 Not under consideration

Melio File System backup

TSM BA client for Melio File System backup on Windows.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

TSM4VE for Hyper-V - enable Hyper-V host to backup VMs from other Hyper-V hosts

After extended testing with IBM support and Microsoft support, it appears that TSM4VE still uses the Windows 2008 implementation for Hyper-V backups. While running backups on multiple Hyper-V hosts, some backups fail because simultaniously an othe...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

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