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Storage Protect Family

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Change QUERY OCCUPANCY to show the number of files backed up for each node/filespace in a directory container storage pool.

Currently QUERY OCCUPANCY returns the number of 10GB fragments associated with each file/object. So if a file is 54GB in size it will report this under QUERY OCCUPANCY six files; where five fragments occupy 10GB, and one as 4GB. As a customer the ...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

SnapDiff API v2

As written in the NetApp KB, ISP is not able to use the SnapDiff API *v2*. https://kb.netapp.com/Advice_and_Troubleshooting/Data_Protection_and_Security/SnapDiff/When_performing_a_SnapDiff_incremental_backup_of_a_FlexGroup_volume%2C_Spectrum_Prote...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus - G Suite support needed

We need local backup for ours users who has been migrate from Domino to G Suite.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Print QR code when setting up MFA in dsmadmc

The new MFA/TOTP support for admin accounts is great, but it's cumbersome to set up when using dsmadmc due to the need to manually enter the shared secret in the MFA smartphone app. The solution is to print a QR code, and that works fine even in a...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

ISP code should be able to handle the same input/output volume when multiple parallel reclamation processes need access to the volume

When using the following stgpool configuration with ISP there is a limitation torun parallel reclamation for multiple tape pools within the setup: 1. protect stgpool container_archive_prim --> copy_container_archive_prim2. stgrule copy containe...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Ability to use the OC Autodeploy feature offline for client upgrades

Currently, for the OC Auto-deploy feature to upgrade existing clients it requires internet access and connectivity to the IBM repository.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Enhanced Schedule for Months with 5 Weekends

Need another option to schedule backup Jobs for months with 5 weekends in a month ,
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Is a defect

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 3 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 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Analoga to QUERY OCCUPANCY

For Nodes with complex data structure is often not enough to get information at the end of dsmc q ba "Path_to_objects/*" -subdir=yes -ina -querysummary with Total Data etc. More detailed aggregated information with backup/archive data amount and n...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

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