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Storage Protect Family

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    Prevent storing duplicate filespaces in a DAG setup with active/active configuraiton

    I have a customer where they use DAG setup on MS Exchange 2010. They move the active databases between the Exchange server nodes and this result in a new filespace under the proxy node used for backup of the Exchange environment. Thereby data are ...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 3 Delivered

    W2k8 system state backup performance improvement

    We are used to systems state backup times of less than 2 minutes (W2k3). Having W2k8 clients now we see backup times of 20 minutes and more just for system state, even it's incremental and nothing has changed. You can also refer to call 75426,025,...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Delivered

    Client Support for MAC OS 10.7 (Lion)

    We would like to get TSM Client Support for MAC OS 10.7. We have some clients with that version we need to backup.
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 5 Delivered

    Enhance SnapDiff Backups to run alongside SnapMirror

    Currently, SnapDiff backups have two possible options. –diffsnapshot=create, which is the default, means that TSM creates the snapshot and then compares that with the previously created snapshot to determine the difference for backups. This has a ...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Delivered

    Exchange TDP scheduler enhancments

    Current Exchange 2010 DAG environment allows for moment of active DB. TSM TDP is not able to adequately keep pace or understand this. Additional features need to be built in to allow for choice or/opt file, selection of backup preferences.
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

    Update TDP reported level

    Currently TSM TDPs report Client Version as the API version of the base node. Either make reported Client Version TDP version or add new API Version to node table so both are reported.
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

    Enable -snapshotroot option with -filelist option on dsmc command

    The TSM BA client dsmc command does not currently support the usage of the -snapshotroot option concurrently with the -filelist option when performing selective backups. We would like to use both of these options together when using the the dsmc c...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Delivered

    Send Email from TSM Server

    Send email from TSM server.
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Delivered

    Exchange2010 backup & Restore - Morethan one passive databases

    Exchange2010 Passive DAG backup, we have 2 copies of passive databases. These are on different hosts so we wind up backing up both copies. This adds to our total occupancy as well as taking up bandwidth of the client.
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 3 Delivered

    dsmc -filelist should support files with any character in name

    dsmc backup client should be able to backup files with the -filelist option where the filenames contain *, ?, " or Newline (and ^X and ^Y for the matter of fact). dsmc can backup these files when you specify the files properly quoted on the comman...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Delivered

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