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Storage Protect Family

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Patra:SAS Tape Problem

We would like TSM to supoort SAS Tape. TSM detect TS3100 as LTO device class but TSM detect SAS tape as GENERIC. So we can't restore data with different device class. SAS Tape Model:7216-1U2IBM Multi-media Enclosure - DAT160 SAS Tape Drive - HHLTO...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Tivoli Sales Specialist

Support TSM Server for Solaris x86
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

need a method to have rc.acs_ssi startup/shutdown put into the rcn.d dirs for Linux like TSM 6 install does ro start/stop TSM

In our Linux environment things are killed and started in the /etc/rcn,d scripts where n is the run level. Here are the directories: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 25 16:30 rc0.d -> rc.d/rc0.dlrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 25 16:30 rc1.d -> rc...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM client parameter ERRORLOGMAX implementation unusable for SONAS

Solution does require 1) Limit the log size of dsmerror.log2) Wrapping commands to implement a CLI just simply list the contents of the log file, meraning an implementation is required that starts listing the oldest entry first and the last entry ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Tivoli Admin Center 6.2.0 : act logs are not inlcuded in interface for collection of logs

act logs are not inlcuded in interface for collection of logs;
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration

retrieve netware archive over windows client

We want to retrieve files and directories from netware archives (without trustees) with use of a windows tsm client.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

A script to invoke a Fastback backup on an Exchange 2010 DAG that selects only passive database copies

We would like an option, when backing up databases in an Exchange 2010 DAG, to ignore active databases and just back up passive copies.Ideally, we also need a method to detect recently running/completed backups on other passive copies on different...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for Microsoft Exchange 2 Not under consideration

TSM support for OCFS2 file system ACLs

We are using Suse Enterprise Linux 11 with SP1 using a native active/active HA clustering. SuSE only supports OCFS2 as the active/active file system but TSM is not supporting this file system for backup and recovery.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

Fast way to determine tape location of archive data

A fast way to determine what tapes contain archive data with a particular description. This could also be extended to which tape(s) conatina an archived/backed up file. The query we have to use to determine this information is excrutiatingly slow....
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

It is requested that udev device name can be specified for the backup image command

Since it is common that a device number is changed with OS reboot on the Linux system, generally users use udev device in order to make the device name unique.However, TSM cannot specify this udev device name for the backup image command, which is...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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