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Storage Protect Family

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SnapDiff backup for volumes mounted to a junction point

NetApp's best practice recommends that volumes on a svm should be mounted to some junctions points not to the root volume (/). The result is that people cannot backup the FlexVols using SnapDiff. I understand APAR IT11729 has a fix for volumes mou...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Simultaneous-write CMOD / Dual Copy on Archive Spectrum Protect Server

Currently we have the API Client in use for storing ARCHIVE Object on Spectrum Protect Server as archive object. During normal operation we defined on Storage Pool level simultaneous-write on all. We found a lack on functionality, when these CopyP...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Multiple schedules backup per VM Tags

There is not possible to backup VMs with multiple VM Tags. The Tag category "Schedule" is in settings "One tag". Using tags is in this reason very limited.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

DBMEMPERCENT Parameter do not allow value smaller 10

Parameter DBMEMPERCENT do not allow value smaller than 10. On a AIX System with a lot of Memory are 10% as minimum for DBMEMPERCENT for small TSM Instances too many.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Automated Rerun of TSM Schedules

I propose that additional client schedule options are added to customise the behaviour and reporting of the backup success.<br /><br />This would be achieved by adding an option to automatically re-run the backup as a whole a number of...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

New warning message if object is larger than defined MaxObjSize on Storage pool

If a file is being backed up to a deduplication enabled storage pool, there has been defined a max object size on that pool - and the next pool not is dedup enabled, the following message is issued: ANS7906W The current storage pool ran out of spa...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

'dsmc i' should never re-backup restored-unchanged files

'dsmc i' should never re-backup restored-unchanged files
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Skip VM that are powered off

In a Vmfull backup situation TSM is trying to backup SRM copies of a VMs that are currently powered off resulting in VM backup failures. There should be a more granular way to exclude VMs and Vmfolders including the ones that are powered off
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

IPv6 Support for NDMP

NDMP-Backup of NAS-Systems (CDOT CAB) not possible in IPv6-Only environment. Datamover creation can't resolve AAAA records, NAS Node needs v4 LIF to open connection to tape server. First step would be to tell the storage system only the DNS name o...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

RESTORE ONLY PERMISSIONS?

Restore only ACL permission
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

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