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Storage Protect Family

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cert_distribute.sh script should allow customized new client cert file names

In the current implementations, the cert_distribute.sh shell script at levels 8.1.21 and 8.1.22 is using random file names for the newly created client cert (crt) file. For customer environments with multiple, maybe hundreds of Storage Protect ser...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

We would like to be able to backup AWS S3 buckets

We have many AWS S3 buckets that users update every day. Versioning is very expensive as there is no dedup/compression and this is especially true if you replicate across AWS regions. We would like to be able to backup and restore files to S3 like...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

We need application consistent Safeguarded Copy protect for SAP R/3

We have multiple customers that are still using SAP R/3 for a while before switching to SAP HANA. Since ERP is part of their minimum viable company, we need a way to safeguard this application.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Under review

Directory Container Erasure Coding

I have multiple smaller customers where we only have 1 Storage Protect server and are not using any tape to be able to run protect storage pool. This is little bit of a risk and also we put all our data in to one solution and if we get bad contain...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

success ful backup in database

So according to this case the filespace table in database, column "last_successful_backup" for Exchange TDP is only updated if replication is configured. If replication is not running, this value is not updated as it should.
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Add Support for OpenSource DBs like PSQL, MySQL

As an Enterprise Backup solution, Storage Protect should have the ability to integrate with very widely used DB systems such as PostgreSQL (Used in Enterprises as much as in smaller business and private environments). Storing Backups using the DB ...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Under review

Tiering rules need more flexibility for Filesystem and/or type of data (Backup/Archive)

I would like to see the tiering rules to be able to be a bit more flexible. I have a node that has Backup and Archive data.Backup data is more often needed quickly so a backup location in ContainerPools is valid.The Archive data is kept 10 years a...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Support for Active Directory Item restore

Today does IBM Storage Protect Backup-Archive Client only support to protect Microsoft Active Directory and do a total Disaster Recovery of Microsoft Active Directory. If we want to restore only one item in the Active Directory to get back from a ...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

Allow custom configuration of ciphers used by a Spectrum Protect server for TLS connections

Spectrum Protect servers use TLS for incoming client and administrative sessions over the netowrk. An incoming TLS connection is offered a number of ciphers to use for the TLS connection by the Spectrum Protect server. Whilst this list of ciphers ...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Create Reports for Data which is send to Object Storage for single Clients / Servers

Hello actually we need to create Reports for Data which is sent from SPP to TSM Object Storage within additional copies and archives. I can not find a report type in SPP which supports the report for data amounts for additional copies / archives. ...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

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