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Storage Protect Family

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Restart Exchange 2010 backup session automatically

When the TDP for Exchange client password expires during the Exchange 2010 full backup running period, the backup sesion failed and can not be restarted as before (Exchange 2003 Lagacy). This caused our TSM admins have to rerun the Exchange 2010 f...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration

Delete selective export vol from volhist

Currently if i make mistake and create an export node with wrong domain, i need to delete node to turn the tape back to scratch. There is no way currently to selectively remove an bad export vol from a list of valid export nodes.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Request simple and easy network distribution of FixPack as like as Windows update.

Request simple and easy network distribution of FixPack as like as ARCserve which do it automatically. Also using the DR transfer function, requires upgrade of the transfer source after upgrading the destination. That's really bothersome and need ...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 2 Not under consideration

Request functional enhancement of showing alert and operating status of FastBack.

Customers desire fastBack to show its DR progress , retry situation, failure notification, and other error notification in timely and appropriate manner.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 2 Not under consideration

Requesting built-in file transfer module (ie:FTP) with FastBack product package.

Requesting bundle FTP ( whatever file transfer function) with FastBack product package.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 2 Not under consideration

Avoid OS reboot by the time of applying a fix/FP.

Each time applying a fix/FOR, it will require reboot OS. It has to be applied those fix without reboot as other product such as ARCserve and some other products.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 2 Not under consideration

Want to have a setting or configuration to control the upper limit of the memory usage for the FastBack Server.

Want to have a setting or configuration to control the upper limit of the memory usage for the FastBack Server.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 2 Not under consideration

Request improvement of diagnosis and logging function.

Request improve of diagnosis and logging function is desired for FastBack user who are typical Fastback customers such as small and medium enterprise.They have limited resources to manage system, and can't challenge problem reproduction again and ...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 2 Not under consideration

Client Code Deployment for TDP modules

Currently, TSM has the ability to deploy the standard Backup & Archive clients from a central location. It would be very useful to have the same ability for TDP for Databases and TDP for Mail as well.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 5 Not under consideration

QUERY VOLHISTORY - search by volume_name

It would be nice to be able to query the volume history file for records relating to a specific volume name.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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