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Storage Protect Family

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Adding Exclude statement for Hyper-V backups

We do not find Exclude statement for hyper-v backups.Customer is not able to exclude particular VM from backup.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

tsm and ilmt agent for ubuntu ppc64le

We are starting using free linux distros like ubuntu to provide several services to our customers. We run ubuntu on ibm i power hardware.It would be nice to use also tsm for backup on this machines and also have subcapicity support on ubuntu os. s...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Not under consideration

version 7.1 32bit linux tsm client

We have several 32 bit linux systems that have applications that prevent OS upgrades. As new security vulnerabilities are found and updated, we have caused the TSM client to stop working, luckily we were able to upgrade tsm to the 6.2.5.4 client c...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

ICO managed TSM activities

Centralized management of TSM activities through TSM server instead of direct connection from ICO to the End-Point. This would enable TSM Server acting as automation tool for backup related activitites such as triggering of backups , snapshots, re...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM backup client fails to restore directories that were "over quota" when the backup was performed

Novell NSS file system (on a SLES based server) has a feature called "directory quota". It is possible to set such a quota on a directory, such that the quota is lower than the amount of data currently stored within the directory. TSM will backup ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

exclude.dir option for ndmp backups

excluding dir option for ndmp backups
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Timestamps for TDP Logs

I would like to see a date and timestamp in the logs generated by TDP. Right now, the data about number of files backed up and such floods the logs and isn't very helpful when trying to determine the progress of a backup.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

ANS1115W with snapdiff option

ANS1115W warning when excluded directoy are scanned with snapdiff method.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

EXPORT NODE PROCESSING ENHANCEMENTS

EXPORT NODE processing issues a FALSE success, when in fact invalid or non-existent FSID are specified in the EXPORT NODE command.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Is a defect

VM vmdk multithread process - Enable the per VM multithread (process multiple vmdk from within a single backup job)

VM vmdk multithread process - Enable the per VM multithread (process multiple vmdk from within a single backup job)
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

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