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Storage Protect Family

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    Ability to create empty structures in S3 Object Client

    We would like to be able to create empty object structures in S3 buckets i.e.:aws s3api put-object --bucket test --key dir/myfolder I was told by support team, that this is currently a limitation to the MinIO used for the object agent.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

    Support for OTP or MFA

    Ransomware is a hot topic and everyone need to secure there Backup environment as much as possible. We need to find as many features as possible to make a ransomware as hard as possible. By using multi factor authentication is one thing that could...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

    Support for the Domino client beyond V7.1 EOS (12/31/2021)

    The Domino client is still on version 7.1 and will get out of support on 12/31/2021. Even if there is no further development planned, there should be support available for customers using Domino.
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Planned for future release

    SP server to support IBM S3 cloud side retention policies, WORM features, object locking

    When using Cloud Storage Pool in a Spectrum Protect Server , it should support all the features that can be set at the S3 level ( especially when the S3 cloud is IBM !! ) like Cloud side retention policies, WORM features, object locking.For retent...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

    SPP excluding disks Function for HyperV (same function as available for VMware)

    The function "Excluding single virtual disks from SLA policy for a VMware job" (description see Redbook REDP-5532-01, page 175) is current only available for VMWare but missing in HyperV.Inventx needs this function in HyperV.
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Container Backup Support in the Red Hat OpenShift environment running on POWER platform

    Customer is creating new AI workloads on OpenShift running on IBM POWER servers. Spectrum Protect Plus v10.1.7 supports Linux x86_64, but not Linux on POWER.OpenShift is designed to enable portability to multiple platforms, but Spectrum Protect Pl...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    need tape disaster recovery ability for Spectrum Protect Plus

    Enable Spectrum Protect to be a disaster recovery target for Spectrum Protect Plus.This would provide tape based disaster recovery of Spectrum Protect Plus.
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

    IBM Spectrum Protect define replication server can use multiple ip on tsm server

    we want define replication server use multiple ip on tsm server . or can we use hostname for replication server and then add multiple ip resolve onetc/hosts ?
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

    Replication Job shows as "Error" if no data is there to process

    When using the replication of vSnap backup storage data and no "new" backup data is available in the source vSnap, SPP identifies the replication job as "Error" which is not true.In fact, just no new data is available in the source vSnap server. S...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Spectrum Protect Plus: Replication Job ends in error when replicating only MSSQL transaction logs

    Based on our SLA with the customer we need to synchronize SQL log backups to the secondary vSnap server ( with the replication job) every two hours. The replication job after the backup job is always successful, because volumes for data+log backup...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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