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Storage Protect Family

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TDP for VE - DP for Hyper-V to include backup for both VHD and VHDX formatted guests.

If the TDP for VE - DP for Hyper-V is installed, you are limited to backup IFFULL or IFINCR only guests in VHDX format. To both backup VHD and VHDX formatted guests on a single Hyper-V host. If you want to backup both VHD and VHDX hyper-V guests w...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TSM for MAIL Exchange - DAG Passive DB not HEALTHY not backed up

It looks like 2 databases (one healthy and one unhealthy) need to be backed up, we skip the unhealthy one and back up the healthy one. Then we return success (RC = 0), because we backed up the healthy one successfully. This is by design. I think t...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Not under consideration

Custom values for failover server (TSM Client node)

Allow custom settings for failover server in client dsm.sys Current soultion will overwrite failover server settings in dsm.sys A few possibilites arise:- Publish values for each node from the node definition on the tsm server- Allow per node a cu...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

New kind of pool: combination of Primary and Active Data

As it is today we can have a Primary pool, which receives (and maybe maintains) several versions of an object and an Active Data Pool, which expires and then removes older versions of objects as new ones are backed up. And with this at least two c...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TSM cannot handle the backing up chroot Linux files natively

TSM not backing up:[root@lppdns01v ~]# ll -d /u01/chroot/etc/nameddrwxr-x--- 2 root named 4096 Jun 9 2014 /u01/chroot/etc/named[root@lppdns01v ~]# ll -d /u01/chroot/usr/lib64/binddrwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 9 2014 /u01/chroot/usr/lib64/bind[ro...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

DP for Mail - Exchange: Backup multiple databases independently

Exchange database backup is launched as transaction from Exchange side of view - when all databases backup is started, databases are processed sequentially one-by-one. Until last database is backed up it is not possible to run LOG backup (type INC...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

Multiple Instances of webUI on Different Proxy Nodes for the Same Datacenter

ISP4VE should be able to install and configure multiple instances of the vSphere GUI, on multiple proxy nodes, that have access and control over the same datamovers and VMware datacenters.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Operation Center not show pre and post schedule failed

When preschedule or postschedule fail, Schedules appear as succesfull in Operation Center. To find wich pre or postschedules that failed, we have to use the comand line to query event and find which one are in Error Status 8.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Not under consideration

provide alternative method to CBT for incremental backups

Due to the fact that there are multiple issues with VMware CBT function I recommend giving the TSM admin the choice of an alternative method for creating incremental backups, e.g. other backup products can make use of a CRC per disk block in order...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

enable/disable use of CBT on VM machine level

Due to the fact that there are multiple issues with VMware CBT function I recommend giving the TSM admin the choice of selecting "use CBT yes/no" independent of the chosen backup method on a "per VM" level, e.g. as a "VMNOCBTUSAGE=VM1; VM2; VM3"
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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