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Storage Protect Family

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Restartable TDP for Exchange Backup over a WAN connection

TDP for Mail Exchange Backup requires a Full Backup without interuption. In case of a WAN connection a transfer withous interuption might be impossible and no Exchange Full Backup is possible. It would be good to be able to restart a backup job.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration

fastback fbdrcopy force to not overwrite existing files in TSM

a force=no option so that if the fbdrcopy operation is interrupted you don't have to overwrite the files that have already been exported to the TSM server.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 2 Not under consideration

Support for Dell Equallogic FS7500

We recently added a Dell Equallogic FS 7500 NAS for the storage of our faculty/staff, administrative and student file shares. We would like to see the FS 7500 added to the list of supported devices so that we can backup the system using TSM and ND...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Admin tasks running remote

For admin tasks, the backup data is going from storage to the TSM server and then from TSM server to storage. Use an other server to move the backup data (except the metadata) from storage to storage, that is closer to the storage.(like lan free b...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Backup from IBM Netezza over the SAN with TSM BA Client and TSM for SAN

Could you please confirm if it is or it is not supported and if the only way to execute IBM Netezza backups to TSM is over the LAN ?
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 2 Not under consideration

implement SQL backup COPY_ONLY

The SQL has the option to create a full DB Backup that does not interfere with the normal backup full, diff, log chain with the COPY-ONLY parameter.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Planned for future release

Change owner of linux archived objects

Using a linux client, a linux user can archive objects with his linux username or logname.Using the retrieve or delete archive function, the user cand read or delete only his archived objects.Because of a user name changing (married woman, enterpr...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

I would like to know if there is a simple TSM reporting tool that could email me a summary of the nightly backups.

I would like a simple reporting tool that would email me a daily report of backup schedules, which were successful and which were not, number of scratch tapes available and what items failed to backup.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Planned for future release

Define new attrbutes (opt settings) for the Tivoli Storage Manager TDP environments.

During restores of large databases via TSM - the connection will exceed the default values of the CommTimeOut and IdleTimeOut settings. In order to alleviate theis problem, we have defined out CommTimeOut and IdleTimeOut values to be very large-be...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

ACL restores @ single file restore

In case of a single file restore, the Windows Explorer do not allow to copy ACLs in a normal copy-and-paste operation.So it is needed to use a 3rd party product (xcopy, robocopy,..) to "copy" the files from backup to productive location. This is i...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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