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Storage Protect Family

Provide ENABLECLOUDDATALock on cloud container stgpools also for Azure blob storage.

We need the option ENABLECLOUDDATALock on cloud container stgpools also for Azure blob storage, it is working for AWS S3 and Google Cloud Storage, but actually not for Azure blob.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Future consideration

Add parallelism when replicating data stored on tape

When using node replication with data stored on tape, the SP replication process is single threaded. This means that only a single tape drive will be used when replicating a node even if there are many free/available tape drives in the tape librar...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Update Storage Protect server to avoid using the S3:ListAllMyBuckets AWS Java SDK call

Current version of Storage Protect server uses V1 of AWS SDK for Java library, the libary invokes ListAllMyBuckets function (SP server validate cloud operation),ListAllMyBuckets violates the Principle of Least Privilege (PoLP) and raises security ...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Support copy to Cloud Container Pool using STGRules

It's a very common use case to have one local backup of the data and for cyber resilience another air gaped copy on locked cloud storage. Unfortunately, this is currently not supported by Storage Protect. Please implement "Copy to Cloud Container ...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Under review

Spectrum Protect Container Storage Pool Storage Space Reduction

Bosch is requesting a Spectrum Protect server administrative command which allows the administrator to reclaim container storage pool space including deletion of empty volumes from the file system.In an optimal implementation, the administrative c...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Future consideration

Files with only ctime changes treated as unchanged by Storage Protect, creating a mismatch in mmbackup’s summary. Adding the unchanged count into Storage Protect and mmbackup’s comparison prevent “skipped files” messages.

mmbackup builds its candidates files if there is just change in ctime. However, some files may have a modified ctime even when no metadata or data changes have actually occurred.For such files, if the IBM Storage Protect server already has the lat...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) Planned for future release

Improved handling of MCDB-enabled databases by Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server

Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server works as designed in respect to restore scenarios. But there is a challenge with exchange mailbox restores after enabling the Microsoft Exchange MetaCacheDatabase (MCDB) feature that prevents an DP4Exc...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail Submitted

Allow Backup-Archive Client on Windows 11 Environment with Cloud Only (Azure) users

As stated from IBM Support, Azure Users are not supported: Currently, the Spectrum Protect (TSM) Backup-Archive Client fails to run on Windows 11 if the cloud only user (Azure) is not a local administrator, even when added to the "Backup Operators...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) Submitted

Native tape control - Offlload to Tape without Spectrum Protect

Our internal teams and Business Partners have been working to position Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) to either existent and new clients but there is a commom claim that for new clients, it is absolutely important to have SPP performing the Offload t...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Not under consideration

Need support for vSphere Exclude VM tags in Plus

Customer has a huge number of vCenters supported currently by SP4VE and has invested in SP4VE plugin and tagging including using vSphere tagging to exclude VMs. Plus will limit this customer from moving off SP4VE to Plus if they have to code all t...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Future consideration

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