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    Fix o disable "Replace" option in VSS DB Restore

    Tivoli Data Protection for Databases(SQL) has the option to backup and restore either using Legacy or VSS options. Whenever you select Restore you have the hability to select various "Restore Options", among this options is "Replace""Replace" tell...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

    IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments - Data Protection for VMware V. 8.1.2.0 - avoid add vsphere comment

    Since TSM/VE 8.1.2.0 backup statistics are stored in vSphere Client column comment. To avoid this the parameter "testflag VMLASTBACKUPSTATUS:"NONE" could be used, but the backup Information must be Manually deleted. It would be friendly when this ...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Archive option for TSM for VE long term

    Hi to keeping Long-term data retention with Virtual Machine, the listed solution is recomended from IBM.http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21651348However this solution has caveats such as not capable to expire exports very long run ...
    almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    Qumulo SMB backup API integration

    Integration with Qumulo API to eliminate the long/timely treewalk to see which files/folders have changed.
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Fs Permission denined still Backup reporting as completed with this error TS004208374

    we are facing backup issue, we have NFS volumes backups. one of the volume backup not happening, and schedules showing backup got completed. Please find the below error. 08/20/2020 03:30:10 ANS4007E Error processing '/netapp/bocfshanamc36-sapds-sv...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    Re-instate prereq check script in 7.1 install

    In the 6.3 installation tar file there was a pre-req check script. This is no longer available in 7.1. please re-instate the functionality
    almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Enable to bulk select the Hard disk1 or other hardidisk of all the VMS to protect.

    There is no way using the GUI to bulk-select all 'Hard disk 1' of all the VMs to protect. I want to protect only harddisk 1 (OS disk) Via SPP. But need to do it 1 by 1. There should be filter out disks for complete landscape.
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    De-couple CES NFS and SMB services

    From support: You can stop NFS service without stop SMB. But if you want stop SMB service, you need stop NFS first. We need to stop all access to AFM collections but still need to serve non-AFM NFS to our cluster. Easiest would be to only shutdown...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale System 2 Not under consideration

    IBM Spectrum Protect Client Encryption with IBM Spectrum Scale

    Spectrum Protect backup encryption using include.Encrypt for Spectrum Scale client is not working due to unrecognized format "Include Encrypt". Error:mmbackup does not recognize this include rule format: Include Encrypt. The tsbackup33 perl script...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    TSM aware of VTLs features (dedup and replication)

    Copying client data using node replication requires a lot of bandwidth and many customers don´t want to use TSM dedup since they already have dedup atVTL levels (protectier and datadomain). It would be great if TSM server could be aware of VTL rep...
    almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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