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need to backup ndmp type=snapmirror to container storage pool

Almost all (avout 95%) the netapp backup in Ben -Gurion unuversity, based on ndmp backup with type=snapm.This is very large volume's, includ the volumes of exchange database's.We do backup to evry volume once a month, all the month we have daily s...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Raise number of dependent Filesets

A customer wants to implement per directory quota. The maximum number of 10000 dependent filesets per file system is a limitation for introducing per directory quota.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Replication job shows as error

SPP shows a replication job as a failure, but only because there was nothing to replicate not because of an actual error. Perhaps the error message type could be changed here so the job doesn't fail.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Support to backing up MongoDB on Ubuntu servers

We have MongoDB on Ubuntu servers and need to backup them.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Backing up prefered SQL Always-on node

We want to be able to choose which node to backup on a SQL Always-on infrastructure.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Values also in "extents" in Spectrum Control capacity reports

Actually, the capacity reports provided by Spectrum Control have values only expressed in GiB. Since they are normally also available in extents (for example in the DS8000) it would be useful to have them also with this unit of measurement, adding...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Under review

Add option to mmlsfileset to list only independent or dependent filesets

mmlsfileset does not have a direct way to list dependedent or independent filesets. While is possible wrapping out the output of mmlsfileset -L/-Y to then pass it to mmcrsnapshot so only quiescence the IO once. I wonder if it is possible to add --...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

VE file level restore lacks of indexing

Unable to quickly find deleted files without mounting all potential snapshots
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Need complete version information in GUI question mark info

When using the GUI the granularity of the version info only displays 2.0.4, it does not include the build version or forth element of version number (2.0.4.1). Right now only administrators can identify the full version installed via the command p...
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Future consideration

REST API as part of build test plan

The REST API is not being tested prior to packaging new Operation Center builds. This was found in 8.1.4 because a module version was upgraded, but not updated in the server.xml file. No one in L1 nor L2 knew about this issue, but it was immediate...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Not under consideration

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