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Storage Protect Family

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Copy node function

The create the copy of exact node I use always rename node , export and import than rename the original node . This causes to much hassel if there are several nodes and load on the tsm server . Creating copy of node is critical if there is a multi...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE

after a backup occurs in VE the Vm goes into a hanging state and locks the VM, only once the server is restarted then the problem goes away. when the backup methodology is changed to TDP for VMware, file and SOL then the issues goes away and the s...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

enhancement request for TransErrno messages

This applies to Unix clients (AIX, Linux, Solaris). Please enhance the TransErrno error messages to include the full pathname of the ofeending filesystem entry. This would aid in analysing the errors message like these that often follow the TransE...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Tsm4ve in vcloud mode can only use wild card to select, not de-select

With TSM4VE backing up a vsphere cluster, it is easy with a -vm option, and wildcards to exclude vm's from backing up. When pointing to a Vcloud Director, and backing up vapps, you can include vapps with wildcards, but not exclude them. Every VAPP...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Long Startuptime with big Diskpool

Our TSM 6.3.5 Server with 22TB Data in a Diskpool and 200GB Database needs over 90min to start. The developers say, this is because of following Reason: "In our V5 data base we had these things called bitvector objects which kept track of free spa...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM backup solution for KVM

We are looking for online backup solution for KVM.
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Multiple DOMAIN.VMFULL statements should be allowed in dsm.opt

Multiple DOMAIN.VMFULL statements should be allowed in dsm.opt for the backup/archive client for VMFULL type backups.
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Alter TDPO FileSpace delimiter to restore Windows backups on Unix and vice-versa.

TDPO FileSpace delimiter is hard coded. For UNIX, it is "/"; for Windows, it is "\". That prevents TDPO clients on UNIX from accessing backup pieces created with Windows and vice-versa. As a result, FileSpace_Name is prepended by "\" for UNIX and ...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Not under consideration

Delete DBSPACE

cannot easily remove dbspace
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM for Virtual Environments instant restore via NFS

Full VM instant restore should be possible via NFS for customers without iSCSI storage (eg SAN or VSAN)
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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