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Storage Protect Family

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Replication should not hang if target pool is hung

When replicating to a cloud pool target, if a Disk to Cloud Transfer is hung, then replication hangs. Replication should have a timeout so that it can skip, abort, etc. rather than winding up locks.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Is a defect

Spectrum Protect Client and Microsoft Onedrive backup failed.

IBM Case #TS001008967 The Spectrum Protect Client is crashing when it takes backup of files within the Microsoft's Onedrive synced folder. Example:06/08/2018 10:07:37 ANS9999E ..\..\common\winnt\ntrc.cpp(765): Received Win32 RC 362 (0x0000016a) fr...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Is a defect

Provide a guide or option in Operations Center to change from tape to replserver pool protection

The Spectrum Protect Operations Center throws an error stating the server is configured to use container-copy pools to protect data to tape, and that you can't configure replication for the server. However, neither the message, nor the built-in he...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Is a defect

Redesign DELETE FILESPACE for reduced log pinning and active log utilization

DELETE FILESPACE pins the DB2 active log st the start, and considers the entire deletion one transaction. This is not how ingested data is handled. Because of this disparity, it is possible to receive a large object, such as an NDMP backup, which ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Is a defect

File permission - default at 666, change to 644

The following have permissions set (by default) to 666: /etc/adsm/Nodes/<node_name>/spclicert.crl/etc/adsm/Nodes/<node_name>/spclicert.rdb/etc/adsm/Nodes/<node_name>/spclicert.kdb Setting at 644 works for root user. It is possibl...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Is a defect

Replication fails for a decommissioned VM

Replication fails for decommissioned VMs
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Is a defect

World Writable permissions to citScanOutput.xml

We are working with a Banking client in which access to the Backup data to other users can cause issues. The File citScanOutput.xml which gets World writeable permissions may cause an security violation
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Is a defect

Ignore/Skip Windows RC Codes during Backup

As you can see in the PMR we got a big problem with some files on a netapp filer. This files were created by randomly by netapp filer. Problem is that these files have no owner, or other NTFS securitys so an windows RC appears if the BA Client try...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Is a defect

TSM Macro for Capacity Licensing does not differentiate between Capacity and PVU

Our team uses TSM 7.1.3.100 to backup our entire enterprise. We currently are licensed by Terabyte; however, we also use TSM for System Backup and Recovery (Sysback). Sysback is licensed by PVU. We are in the middle of an IBM Software audit and th...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Is a defect

If a job does not find any db PASSIVE to be backed up, IT SHOULD NOT FAIL !

If a job does not find any db PASSIVE to be backed up, IT SHOULD NOT FAIL !
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 3 Is a defect

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