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Exchange 2010 GUI exclude active/passive

It would be useful to be able to exclude passive databases from gui backups for Exchange 2010 DAGs. Ideally by using a opt or cfg file exclude statement. currently you can exclude from cmdline with exclude flag - same requirements for gui.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

Ability to set the relative priority of TSM operations from commands or dsmserv.opt

We want to be able to set the relative priority of TSM operations to better control what operations can pre-empt other operations.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

rename filespace not visible

Hello, We use vmware4tdp. Here we noticed when we rename a filespace (vmfull image) this filespace (image) is not visible in the restore gui nor restore command line.So we are not able to restore a image which has been renamed on TSM Server. Greet...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Is a defect

TSM Journal Backup for Network Shares

The TSM Journal Backup only works with local drives on the all TSM versions. In our company, we have a lot of network shares, like this example: 04/22/2013 03:47:44 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS BEGIN04/22/2013 03:47:44 Total number of objects inspected:...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Support of TSM Client Imagebackups on AIX with using LVM Mirror Pools

We are using LVM mirror pools in AIX. The imagebackup on the client system with the mirror pools doesn't work, because the internal command creating a logical volume group that is used, needs the parameters for the mirror pools, and there is no wa...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Warning wcreted when accessing file systems that are not backed up

When the client starts a filesystem mount problem is only reported in the local error log. If there is an warning/error that effects the status of the backup as this does, it should be sent to the TSM server actlog so that the error is know withou...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Windows GUI Title states flashcopymanager In DP for DB

After the last update of TSM for Databases the top title of the Windows GUI states the name flashcopymanager (see screenshot), even if no FCM is installed. Customers are confused.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Is a defect

Need to have Report Extraction feature in Tivoli Fastback Console 6.1.2.0

We need to have report extraction for backup status of clients from CAC 6.1.2.0 which doesnt support as of now
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for Workstations 4 Not under consideration

Backupset and reclaim/move data not working together

Because creating backupsets may take several days if the server amount where the backupsets are created is large. During that time you run into problems if doing reclaim or other similar kind of processes. Backupset crashes and because you can't c...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

API failures in SUMMARY table, please

I want the SUMMARY table kept by the TSM server to include BACKUP and ARCHIVE activities with Successful=No for API activities just like they're kept for "regular" (OS) client activities.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration