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Storage Protect Family

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Support for "actual" option on NFS exports in snapdiff backups

NetApp volume exported with "actual" option:/ctools_searchindex -sec=sys,actual=/vol/crystal_ctools_searchindex,rw=172.32.1.10Mounted on the client:mount 172.32.1.9:/ctools_searchindex /usr/local/ctools/storage/ctfs/fsctools/search/searchindex Whe...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

TDP for SQL parallel backup of Logs to two different managementclasses

With TDp for SQL only allows to backup logfiles only to one location. On other databases such as Oracle, DB2 and even MaxDB it is possible to backup logfiles to two different locations.It would be helpfull if in the configuration it is possible to...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 4 Not under consideration

reconcile volumes behaviour with server delete grace times

The behavior of the reconcile volumes command should be changed to take into account server deletion grace time settings. Reconcile volumes command should not report errors when archive files for deleted source virtual volumes are still present on...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Is a defect

VE Snapshot without/Quiesce

With large VMware environments with TSM for VE, it is nearly impossible to get a clean backup of hundreds of VM's on a single data mover, given VSS instability. The VE backup should try application quiesce, first and if it fails do a non-quiesce s...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Support Engineer

Issues with changing vmdk include/exclude rules on VM backupshttp://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21643349
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Replace DEFAULT with actual management class name in reporting.

The default management class is always shown as DEFAULT in SELECT * from BACKUPS reports rather than the actual class name which would be more useful in determining what the retention periods are for a given set of backup files, whereas with defau...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE Automatic VM Exclusion

I would like the ability for TSM for VE to automatically exclude VM's which already has TSM BA Client installed and use for file level backup. This list could be generated from TSM Admin/Operations centre (Or any 3rd Party software managing TSM) a...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

How much space is needed.

When TSM issues ANR0534W size estimate exceedes stg, it would bee very nices if the estimated size was showen too.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Is a defect

HSM Recalls slow with sparse files.

Files that are sparse can take an exceptional length of time to recall from tape.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 2 Not under consideration

Password re-use

Passwords used for interactive accounts different from the previous 12 passwords.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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