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Support for Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL)

Support for Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL). OEL is based on RHEL but was extended with a specific modified Kernel by Oracle. As also the native RHEL Kernel is included in OEL and FCM is supported for RHEL, it should be supported for OEL, too. Oracl...
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Delivered

FCM: File-level backups from a VSS offload mount of file system backups

Currently FlashCopy Manager v3.1 does have this functionality with NTFS volumes:- create a VSS snapshot of a NTFS volume on host A- mount this VSS snapshot as a new drive letter on host A- unmount this VSS snapshot on host A. This RFE is about the...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 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 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

Extended Scheduler capabilities

Not possible to create advanced schedules.My customer has made schedules which make backups every two hours. But they would like the possibility to exclude certain weekdays like saturdays and sundays.
about 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Delivered

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

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