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Storage Protect Family

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Ability to delete filespace tied in retention set.

If we set up f.e a retention rule to save a yearly backup for all VMs, we then can not delete any of the VMs filespaces completley. Only if we delete the retentionset and thus deleting all of the yearly backups.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

export to tape from directory-container storage pools.

I would like to see an export function that enables me to export to tape from directory-container storage pools. Export to tape is only possible from a sequential pool now days, but I would like to do it from container storage.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Delivered

retenrule with individual filespaces

The new feature retention rule does not allow to define individual filespaces for an BA/aR Client.This parameter is only supported for vm backups.The feature retention rule / retention sets should be an alternative to the backupsets.The backupset ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

TCP Window size - update default to 0 on platforms with auto tuning

Both the TSM server and TSM client has an option named TCPWINDOWSIZE that tunes the TCP window size.<br /><br />Most of us would expect that the default would be 0, ie go with the operating system default settings. This is not the case...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Delivered

Improve Logical Block Protection performance by using faster CRC implementation

The Logical Block Protection (LBP) feature in Spectrum Protect (TSM) is currently limiting performance when used with current generation tape drives. In production we see around 360 MB/s without LBP enabled, degrading to around 200 MB/s with LBP e...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

256K tape blocksize support for NDMP backups for NetApp

We are doing NDMP backups of NetApp filer to TSM Server on IBM Protectier Storage (as VTL). We are doing LANFree backups using DATAMover to storage pool on Protectier. The storage pool is of type "NetApp Dump" "BACKUP NODE" TSM server command is u...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Add SHA256 checksum to Passport Advantage packages

Please Add SHA256 checksum to Passport Advantage webpage image file details.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Delivered

add functionality to audit container command

If for some reason some containers in a directory stgdpool pool have become unavailable or readonly, audit container must be run. If there are many containers to run audit on there is no way of queing up the audit processes.I'd like a wait=yes fla...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

SPP archive to on-prem COS

Archive to on-prem COS: Our team uses Spectrum Protect Plus for VMWare incremental backups to COS vaults without issue. In one policy, incremental backups are taken daily and kept for 7 days. The archive feature in any SPP policy only allows for a...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Support for Mac El Capitan (OSX 10.11.x)

The latest Mac release will be installed on many if not all new Mac endpoint devices. Further, many existing devices currently running Mac Yosemite (OSX 10.10) will upgrade to this latest OS release shortly. We have over 1,000 Mac client accounts,...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Delivered

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