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Storage Protect Family

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    Process DB snapshot volumes with DRM

    Prior to SP 8.1.25, the SP sever disaster recovery manager (DRM) would process DB snapshot backup volumes. Beginning in 8.1.25 (see https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/IT47560), DB snapshot volumes are ignored by DRM which can make them invisib...
    9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

    Stop automatically disassociation from SLA Policy

    If for example one has DNS issue (it happens) and the SPP appliance fail to resolve, lets say a specific fileshare that is associated with a SLA.Then the SPP appliance desides that this fileshare is not longer there and removes it from the SLA..Th...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

    maxruntime parameter does not honor admin schedules with wait=yes

    The maxruntime parameter could not be used for administrative schedules where processes with wait=yes are started. APAR IT21651 documents the behavior.
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus introduce support for file level backup and restore for Ubuntu and Debian VMs

    Spectrum Protect Plus introduce support for file level backup and restore for Ubuntu and Debian VMs
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Do not trigger a new base backup if the site associated with the SLA policy is changed

    Currently if you alter the target site in an SLA policy it will trigger a new base backup. This behaviour should be adjusted so that by default it does not trigger a new base backup.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Balanced usage of tape drive generations. Changing behaviour of librarymanager when selecting drive for tape mount.

    The idea is: When using a specific format in a deviceclass, the tapedrives selection alogorithm should not discriminate tapedrives with higher capabilities In an environment with different tapedrive models (for example TS1155 and TS1160) but all d...
    12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

    Document required "sudo" permissions

    The requirement for a single file recovery within Spectrum Protect Plus is to implement a sudo-configuration on each protected VM to assign:sppagent ALL=(root) NOPASSWD:ALL
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Containerpool Backup to File Device Class

    Add support for backup of Directory Container Pools to Copypools using File Device Class.
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    Select datastore per VMDK during restore

    When performing a restore it should be possible to select destination datastore for each VMDK-file.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Moving the TSM Server parameter DIRECTIO NO from a server-wide option into a device class specific parameter

    The Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) server will, by default, use non-buffered I/O bypassing the file system cache. By specifying the server option DIRECTIO NO within the dsmserv.opt, this behavior can be changed – means TSM is using the file system c...
    almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

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