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    Stop File Content Backup on ACL Change

    Currently when an ACE is changed in an ACL it will cause the full file to be backed up again in TSM. For example, if we have a 200GB file and we change 1 ACE in the ACL it will cause the content of the 200GB file to be backed up again when the con...
    about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

    RFE for support of "mmafmctl <filesystem> failoverToSecondary ?j <fileset> --norestore" within mmcesdr

    AFM-based DR support a “--norestore” option when invoking # mmafmctl <filesystem> failoverToSecondary –j <fileset> --norestore e.g. secondary# mmafmctl kyc2 failoverToSecondary -j sec02 --norestorePrimary Id (afmPrimaryId) 149423358914...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

    Obtaining SnapDiff backup base snapshot name

    When running an incremental SnapDiff backup on NetApp volumes from the BA client, a differential snapshot is created on the NetApp in the beginning of each backup, and compared with the base snapshot remained from the previous backup. On the end o...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    Change TSM Server-based Library Manager behaviour

    Please change the behaviour of the TSM Server-based acting in a library manager only role to not require read/write access to the tape drives during normal operations. Currently, TSM server performing library manager only function (no servicing ba...
    about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

    NTACL transfer function with Spectrum Scale 4.2.0.3

    With Spectrum Scale 4.2.0.3, the security attribute called NTACL is not transferred from Cache to Home using AFM function. This attribute used to be transferred with GPFS 4.1.0.7 which is used by the customer.
    over 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    TSM file devclass support for NFS filesystem

    When defining file type of devclass, the directory options can be multiple directories. define devc fileclass devtype=file directory=/back1,/back2 We will be using 2 x 10 Gbit card to access NFS share. There will be two mounts at least, but both m...
    about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Hard Link backup and restore on AIX

    Hard link can not restore on a very specific situation.While the backup or restore the hard link in different time, the hard link will lose.
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

    dismount vol * state=idle

    For maintenance on a physical or virtual library it is sometimes needed to unmounts all tapes from a library. To do this you have to set devc to mountl=0 and cancels all processes and backups on LIBCLs using this library. Afterwards all drives are...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    halt command should do a complete and clean halt by option

    Currently the halt command stops all processes but does not unmounts mounted volumes. In an LIBCL LIBMG environment you cannot use the drives until some timeouts will recycle the drives or the use in not confirmed to LIBMG (ANR8925W Drive x in lib...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Add support to api calls for not following symlinks

    It would be useful if the GPFS api commands that accept a filesystem path as an argument could support an optional flag such that if the final component of the path is a symbolic link the link is not followed. The goal is to be able to perform an ...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

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