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Spectrum Protect Snapshot

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Possibility to protect multible volumes in one schedule.

Possibility to protect multible volumes in one schedule.
about 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Delivered

Pr. volume pre- and post- jobs

Pre- and Postjobs seems to be configured globaly in FCM 3.1. It would be nice if this could be set pr. volume instead.
about 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Delivered

FCM: Clone process is IN_PROGRESS forever

If FCM creates a clone system of a database, then fcmcli -f inquire_detail shows the status of the current progress of the background copy. Even if the background copy finishes, the status still is IN_PROGRESS. This currently is "working as design...
about 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Delivered

FCM: SAP/ORA: Change umount/rmfs order

In case of Flashcopy Manager for Unix/Linux and the application SAP with Oracle DB: if the database must be restored/recovered, then the BRTools must be used. If the BRtools are being started for brrestore/brrecover, then the FlashCopy Manager doe...
about 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Delivered

Add DEDUP_DEVICE option to DB2 (Offload) backup to TSM

The Offlload backup of a snapshot to TSM doesn't support the DB2 Backup command option of DEDUP_DEVICE, which optimises de-duplication of the backup images and significantly reduces backup storage.
over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 4 Delivered

FCM managing Exchange 2010 DAG backups as same objects for both active and passive nodes.

RFE: FCM must manage backups taken from Exchange 2010 active and passive nodes in DAG configuration as same objects and keep the versions accordingly. That means expiration is done independent of being active or passive. That will help to provide ...
over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Delivered

FlashCopy Manager should support also NetApp for Flash copies under Unix

The FlashCopy Manager supports currently only the IBM subsystems DS8000, SVC, V7000 and XIV. Many customers are using NetApp storage because of their comprehensive snapshot and replication functionality. These customers want to use TSM as the Unif...
over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 5 Delivered