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Journalled Based Backup for Veritas VXFS

We have a shared Veritas filesystem that contains a million plus files. We have a RPO of 15 minutes for these. The standard TSM client takes approximately 1.5 hours to examine this filesystem and so we badly miss our RPO. The JBB does exactly what...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

TSM Macro for Capacity Licensing does not differentiate between Capacity and PVU

Our team uses TSM 7.1.3.100 to backup our entire enterprise. We currently are licensed by Terabyte; however, we also use TSM for System Backup and Recovery (Sysback). Sysback is licensed by PVU. We are in the middle of an IBM Software audit and th...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Is a defect

Windows 2016 and TSM 8.1.0.0

Since we can't use the new 8.1.0.0 TSM gui to perform a systemstate restore, we have to use WINPE with the TSM client installed.The problem is there are instructions for this, and the ones posted on IBM's sites relate to Windows 2012.Which by the ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 0 Not under consideration

TWS support for IBM i operating system version V7R3M0

According with information in IBM site, there aren't any supported versions of TWS agent for IBM i V7R3M0.Latest supported version is TWS 9.2 but only supported in IBM i V7R1M0 and V7R2M0.Meanwhile V7R1M0 end-of-support was announced to 30/04/2018...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Handling sparse files

This is similar to RFE 101191, but for versions of Linux that don't support lseek with SEEK_HOLE. For those versions of Linux, is it possible to use ioctl with FS_IOC_FIEMAP ?See the source code for BSD tar (not GNU tar) for details. When I was op...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Skipping sub-folder from TSM backup process without impacting its previous backup

I want to skip a sub-folder on a Windows drive (or a sub-directory on a Linux file system) from the TSM client incremental backup process. When I say 'skipping a sub-folder', I mean not to back up this sub- folder starting from tonight but not to ...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

TDP for VE backup exclude files

We have a Windows VM ware which having SQL database . We have scheduled the SQl backups through TDP for SQL and snapshot backup through TDP for VE(It's a client requirement ) So here we are facing an issue that Snapshot backup is taking the databa...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TSMVE unable to backup VMs at highest parent folder level

Issue in scheduling backups using VSphere protection using TSMVE, where the VMware enviroment is setup as VCloud Director. As the setup for VMWare is VCD, each folder in VSphere represents a unique customer organization with long names having UUID...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Extend delete filespace command to provide ability for multiple filespace deletion

Provide an extension to delete filespace command to specify multiple comma separated filespace names or filespace id's and/or an option to excliude filespaces (e.g. like "delete filespace <nodename> * exclude.fs=<fs.anme or fs.id>").
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Better Support for Windows Server Failover Clusters with Asymmetric Storage

Support for asymmetric storage configurations with Windows Server Failover Clusters (WSFC) was added to Windows Server 2008 with hotfix KB976097 and is available with RTM versions of Windows Server 2012, 2012R2 and 2016. SQL Server 2014 AlwaysON a...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

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