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Storage Protect Family

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Occupancy not reporting on objects stored in the TSM database

The Query Occupancy or Select from Occupancy commands do not report on backup objects stored within the TSM database.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Automatic decommission for clients on cloud server

Decommissioning of clients does not always happen for clients on the cloud server. This leaves clients data in the cloud and can increase our monthly chargeback for cloud storage along with maintaining data passed the retention date – can cause le...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TSM Client Throttling During Backup

A TSM server backing up several clients can not prevent large amounts of data being ingested from the clients. Resource utilization can be adjusted in order to effect resources on the client, but not, to control data transferred. The mount points ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

DRP TSM :

Some customers save the VM data on tape. They use the stgpool VMCTLFILESTGPOOL (control file) to accelerate the restore. Macro "VMCTLFILESTGPOOL.VOLUMES.DESTROYED" should be added in "RECOVERY.SCRIPT.DISASTER.RECOVERY.MODE".
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

DRP TSM : modify the script to restore the DB

the commands - in RECOVERY.SCRIPT.DISASTER.RECOVERY.MODE file - to restore tsm instance after crash, are for TSM v5.In TSM v6, to restore after a major crash, it's needed to create a new TSM instance. The TSMDB1 database is dropped, just before th...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Is a defect

TDP VE 7.1 Schedule return codes.

TDP VE 7.1 does not return failed 12 for any vm's that fail during scheduled backups.This needs to be enabled to return a code of 12 for the scheduled backups without which the tracking becomes difficult.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Node Replication process

Hi,a backup process is preempted by Node Replication process. This is incomprehensible. Why Node Replication process has a higher priority than backup ? In this way, backup stg process should also have a higher priority.Thank you.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Is a defect

Bandwidth throttling between two TSM servers during the "node replication"

The customer want to have the possibility to have a flexible bandwith during the node replication with a secodary TSM according to their needs.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Windows 2012 dedup API's

Need TSM to take advantage of the Windows 2012 dedup API's. This we are not rehydrating the information when we are backing up a 2012 server that is using the native dedup built in.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

TSM Client snapdiff functionality improvement to verify '.snapshot' directory visibility

This RFE proposes to improve TSM Client snapdiff functionality for verifying '.snapshot' directory visibility and return an error code or a failed schedule status if .snapshot directory is not accessible when the client tries to read the data
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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