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Support ZFS on Linux Client

We use FreeBSD servers with ZFS filesystems on our large storage systems. Since there is no native FreeBSD Spectrum Protect Backup-Archive Client, we intend to use the Linux version leveraging FreeBSD's Linux runtime environment. But the SP Backup...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Running jobs on an SLA consecutively

Spectrum Protect Plus allows us to run all jobs on a schedule. When replicating, copying or archiving a backup data we need to set a time to the job.But sometimes backups take more time than usual and in that case replication and/or copy job fails...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

double library libTsmViSdk.so / unnecessary space usage

We noticed that the libTsmViSdk.so library is included into the TIVsm-API64 and TIVSM-BA package: bash-4.4$ find /opt/tivoli/ -name libTsmViSdk.so /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/api/bin64/libTsmViSdk.so /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/libTsmViSdk.so bash-4....
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

Timeout for Replication

We have seen a scenario where if we got a Network Issue between two IBM Storage Protect Servers and the replication failed on the Source machine the target machine doesn't timeout it session. When we get in that stage we can't cancel any sessions ...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Add support to Spectrum Protect Plus for DB2 on Windows Systems

Actually Spectrum Protect Plus does not support DB2 running on Windows Systems.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Delete Backups in Vsnap repository

SPP 10.1.1 allows expiration of specific recovery points... But that's expiring all the VMs included in that recovery point within the SLA. It still do not have the ability to expire individual VMs within a policy...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Support for SQL Express

Today SQL Express is not supported. But there is no reason for why. It has all the functionality as the FULL sql, except limits on CPU and RAM. Backups works fine etc. The only part that will not work today is the mmc gui that wont complete its co...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Under review

dsmc should be able to backup all files when using mmbackup

TSM when used to backup Spectrum Scale file-systems with mmbackup is unable to backup files with certain characters in filenames (e.g. new line). Given files with new lines can be created using Spectrum Scale with CES from Windows and Mac clients,...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus - Introduce new Replication Only SLA

System: Spectrum Protect PlusActor: User needing new feature Spectrum Protect Plus is a Backup and Data reuse product that allows for easy protection of virtual workloads and replication to alternate locations. However, although replication is sup...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

release empty volumes on migration process

In Spectrum Protect the data are stored on the primary storage pool. if filled up, a migration process is triggered to move the data to the next storage pool (e.g. from disk to tape). This migration process creates a list of volumes of the primary...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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