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TSM Operations Center Add Client Node add to node group

When adding a client node using the beautiful TSM Operations Center, the user is walked through various selections for node, domain and backup schedule and even client options set! Great. In a disk only based solution with node replication where r...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Windows System State Backup does not include the Windows Internal Database

As parrt of the system state backup the Windows Internal Database WID does not form part of the system state backup. e.g. c$\Windows\WID\Data\master.mdf Windows own internal backup WBadmin backs this up as part of system state
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Allow selecting of vm to backup based on vmware tag

VMware supports "tagging" at the virtual machine, and / or the folder level. These tags could be exploited to determine which VM's to backup with TSM4Ve.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Use a single GUID per machine in a TDPDOM WIN86 environment

Problem title GUID flapping (repeated ANR1639I messages) Environment: Product or Service: Data Protection for Domino Windows 7.1.W Component ID: 5698DPDAP VMware vSphere 5.5 U3 Windows 2008 R2 x64 Standard Edition Lotus Domino 8.5.2 FP4 x32 TSM se...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Is a defect

Allow server/oc silent install script to work across revisions

Currently, an install script has to specify specific versions/revisions of TSM server and OC code when identifying what components to install. This means the script is only good for that v.r.m.f.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TSM for VE 6.4.1 support for vSphere 5.0

Customer updated its vCenter from version 5.0 to 5.5, but the vSphere environment remained on version 5.0. With this, they cannot use TSM for VE 6.4.1 (that does not support vCenter 5.5) or TSM for VE 7.1, that does not support vSphere 5.0.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

tdpoconf limitations when configuration TDP for oracle

TDPOCONF is limited as we cannot parse additional parameters when we run the password configuration. Ideally, it would be best if we could run tdpoconf password and automatically parse the password automatically within a script. This is a major ro...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

TSM: Manual upgrade when skipping instances in a Linux cluster environment

Manual upgrade when skipping instances in a cluster environment
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TDP For erp sap_hana

Despite what is written in the documentation Versioning is not available for SAP_HANA backups. I would like to have the MAX_VERSION available so as to age backups. At the same time I want SAP HANA to be aware about the deletion of those old backups.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Not under consideration

Enhance define volume command with additional parameter

When defining a Sequentialfilevolume, it appears instantly in the filesystem. This is possible, because the internal structure of the volume will be created later, when data is written to it. This was introduced somewhere in TSM Version 6.3 and us...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

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