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Storage Protect Family

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TSM can't report that an object is a symbolic link

When attempting to restore a subdirectory structure we encountered a situation where a symbolic link had been replaced with a subdirectory (with contents). The TSM Backup Archive Client completed the restore but reported an error: ANS4007E Error p...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TSM for VE reporting unsuccessful backup

TSM for VE, version 7.1.2, that skips VM during backup of SRM VMs generates a SUCCESFUL=NO in the summary table
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Is a defect

OEL Oracle Enterprise Linux Client Support for TSM Backup

Need to validate that TSM will support OEL (Oracle Enterprise Linux) as an operating system option in CMS for the CSM4Oracle offering. OEL will become the default OS option for CMS and OVM and I need to ensure that it will be supported by the TSM ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Not under consideration

TDP SQL V7.x- The 1790 character restriction was added in the 7.1 release of TDP

TDP SQL V7.x- The 1790 character restriction was added in the 7.1 release of TDP
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Not under consideration

Allow ndmp backups to stack in versions 6.3 and later

Prior to v6.3 we had the functionality to stack backup processes when running ndmp backups. Rather than create extra scripts externally to limit them to 4 we require the functionality to be returned.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

TSM-VE IFINCR : incremental backup only ( manage CBT issue )

It would be great to have a way to avoid TSM-VE to perform a full backup when it hits a CBT failure or any other event making a full backup mandatory (for example:ANS9386W) .I imagine a parameter to rule out virtual machine which cannot run increm...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Cumulative clientopt definition

Background: Today when we use clientopt on the server side the number of clientopt can grow quite large, the number may grow in to 50-100 clientopts over time if the Spectrum Protect Solution uses a central configuration manager. This may be possi...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Testflag or option to restore from Primary STG pool instead of ACTIVE data pool

Currently if an activedata pool exist for a primary stgpool and a client restore is performed, the client will attempt to restore the data from activedata pool. Only in the following conditions it will restore the data from primary stg pool. 1. If...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM granular restore from tape

The TSM for VMware vsphere plugin does not allow for a disk to be mounted for granular restore when the guest is saved on tape. . This is available through the TSm Ve recovery agent but not from the VMware plugin .
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Backup of Microsoft Shared volumes seems not to be supported by TSM

Problem titleAttempt to backup Microsoft Shared volumes results in retries for eachfile stored on the CSV Problem descriptionTSM Backup-Archive Client Version 7, Release 1, Level 1.3, running onWindows Server 2012 R2 standard having mounted Cluste...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

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