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Storage Protect Family

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Copy_Only backup (Single Ingest)

The requirement is to avoid multiple client backups of the same data, but allow image copy with different retention policies. In discussions with customer it has been suggested Dave Canan be involved in the technical design spec. Topics such as co...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

The TSM tablespace conversion procedure should be automated

The TSM tablespace conversion procedure should be automated.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Implement TSM BA Client to MS VSS Previous Version

Today when we implement TSM to new customers does we introduce the Web Client normally so a Windows/Unix admin can do the restore instead of the Backup Admin. But we could make it even easier for a new customer and tell them that they don't need t...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

TSM support backup for Oracle Linux server release 6.1 (OEL)?

Does TSM support backup for Oracle Linux server release 6.1 (OEL)? Is this OS (Oracle Linux server release 6.1 (OEL)) is supported for TSM Extended edition and TSM DB agents? Does TSM support for Oracle apps?
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TSM support backup for Oracle Linux server release 6.1 (OEL)?

Does TSM support backup for Oracle Linux server release 6.1 (OEL)? Is this OS (Oracle Linux server release 6.1 (OEL)) is supported for TSM Extended edition and TSM DB agents? Does TSM support for Oracle apps?
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Capability to distinguish between active and inactive Oracle backups

Some way to distinguish between active (most recent) oracle backups and the old versions. Two common reasons to protect Oracle databases are for DR purpose and record keeping due to legal obligations. But these two methodologys have completely dif...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

ASR Support for EFI systems

ASR-based recovery must be performed from within the Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE). The exception to using ASR with Windows NT 6 operating systems is for 64-bit systems whose firmware interface is based on Extensible Firmware Interfa...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Planned for future release

Direct Backup to BOOST/OST enabled VTL

We would like to see Data Domain BOOST support in TSM. We are using Data Domain HW today but I think there would be same/similar advantage using this technology with for example IBM ProtecTier/OST? Competition (Symantec, Networker) have allready i...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

need an include.vmfull statement to assign management classes to VMs

When using TSM/TSMV-VE to backup full VM snapshots, we need to handle production and development/test VMs differently, i.e. they should get different management classes. This is currently very difficult to achieve. The logical and elegant solution...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

Support multiple TEC host servers in TSM/TEC integration

Enable support for assignment of multiple TEChosts (TEC/Omnibus) targets for alerting.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration