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    Windows uninstall to remove registry and services

    During the un-install of the windows client there is a bunch of registry setting and services that are not deleted. I would like an option where you could ask the un-install process to remove the TSM related registry settings and or TSM services. ...
    about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    Display restore/ retreive size prior to performing action.

    Be able to find the amount of data that is to be restored given the current selection in the GUI/web client.Using the cli you can run a q backup <filspec> -subdir=yes -querysummary To get a total file count, size, est number of tapes etcThis...
    about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    Store GPFS metadata blob as in the database, rather than as file data

    The GPFS data blob (which contains the file metadata, including the ACL's, storage pool assignment, atime, etc) is currently stored with the data, rather than in the database as metadata. This means that potentially very large amounts of data are ...
    about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Change incremental action on change to ACL or xattr

    Currently, TSM will back up an entire file if the ACL or extended attributes of the file are changed, rather than updating the metadata. See:https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21448429 This leads to a lot of duplicate backups, and ...
    about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    dsmc query backup -encryption=yes

    An option should be added to dsmc and gui to query backup for encrypted files. In addition, you should be able to query backup for files that are not encrypted.
    about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 5 Not under consideration

    Win TSM Client Edit Preferences automatically restarts "TSM Scheduler"

    If Edit Preferences make changes to the options file, the “TSM Scheduler” service should be automatically restarted.
    about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

    Exclude a Linux disk from TSM for VE backup

    On Linux virtual machines, exclude disks from TSM/VE backups by their scsi number (e.g. scsi0, scsi1). TSM/VE can query Virtual Center, so it should know everything from that about each virtual machine and its disk(s).
    about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

    'dsmj.log'

    customer wants to have a option to have the possibility to enter the path where the 'dsmj.log' will be created
    about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    DB2 is backingup empty spaces

    - The fastest way to backup is to not back it up at all. Change DB2 backup method so that just "used" spaces are backedup. If "empty" spaces is still needed because of "performance reasons, than consider using posix_fallocate / fseek etc during re...
    about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

    Keep transaction logs online as long as possible

    The DB2 database has to allways retrieve all transaction logs from backup, even though the information might still be online.------------------------------------------------Here is an description how the backup is working today in DB2 The current ...
    about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

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