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CAB extension support for TSM

Hi Dev, I wonder when TSM will support NDMP with CAB (Cluster aware backup) for Netapp cDOT? I have a bunch of netapp systems that I would like to backup with TSM and CAB but the IBM support told me it's not possible today. On page 53 in this neta...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

TSM and ILMT Support for Oracle VM Environment

We have the following environmentOracle Virtual Server  3.3.1 Oracle Virtual Machine OS Oracle Enterprise Linux 6 update 4 & 5 update 7Oracle Database version 12c, 11g, 10g This is environment (Oracle VM) is not supported by ILMT (IBM Lic...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

unable to take backups of a database using tdp 6.4.1 for SQL 2012 with always on node

Tsm server 6.4 qnd we are trying to take one backup in two different management classes using tdp sql 2012 with always on feature enabled. For tye second backup which should go to the new mgmt, it fails with the merge test. Because backup happens ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Not under consideration

TSM fo VE (VMware) / Extend Data Mover Linux OS Support

Currently, Data Mover OS requirements support the following:RHEL 5.9, 6.2, 6.3; SLES 11SP2 Many customers do not have these old RHEL releases in their supported deployment plans. They use newer versions of RHEL. TSMfVE Data Mover must also support...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

new authority class "QUERY" for query and select privilege

In order to restrict the query and select commands for all the administrators having only client owner authority I put "QUERYAuth<br /> Storage" in dsmserv.opt. In order to monitor the server activity, I    have defined the ad...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Journal based backup for RHEL7

We will soon be deploying Redhat 7 for all our new servers, including a large number in the research space for use with large numbers of files (potentially hundreds of millions). Journal based backups are not available for RHEL7, only for RHEL6 wh...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

TSM Linux Client 6.4.X web interface with Java Version 8

The Linux web client is not working with Java 8x. Please resolve
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Implement -fromdate -todate in the TSM API

We have today a product which can restore only block changes from TSM, but we have to retrieve a list of all objects from TSM because of that there is no way to get a list of objects that has been backed up since a given date/time.Similar function...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

Add Support for ESXi\vCenter 6.0 GA Release

TSM for VE currently shows no support VMWare\ESXi 6.0 Release.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

New exclude statement "exclude.systemstate all"

It would be nice when there is a exclude statement to excludethe backup of the systemstate on windows:exclude.systemstate allTil version 6.4 there was an special exclude-statement for systemservices "exclude.systemservice all" (Win2003,WinVista)
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration