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Storage Protect Family

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vSnap – migrate data from one vSnap to another vSnap

vSnaps of SPP are created but in the lifecycle the amount of data will increase. When a new vSnap is needed to increase capacity at the moment only new VMs will be backed up to this vSnap. To migrate data of vSnaps you need to create a new policy:...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add Support for OpenSource DBs like PSQL, MySQL

As an Enterprise Backup solution, Storage Protect should have the ability to integrate with very widely used DB systems such as PostgreSQL (Used in Enterprises as much as in smaller business and private environments). Storing Backups using the DB ...
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Under review

ACL support for Spectrum Scale file systems

Spectrum Protect does fully support Spectrum Scale filesystems. If special attributes of files in this file systems aremodified like setting or changing ACLs, on the next backup run thecomplete file will be backed up again, though only metadata wh...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Server Cross-replication with Client Acceptors to both on all clients

Site fail-over/fail-back of the "restore" function (read from ISP server(s)) is already provided in the ISP server product. Site fail-over/fail-back of the "backup" function (write to ISP server) is not. If site A goes down, backups must be suspen...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Operation Center must have the capability to fully administrate and configure a Spectrum Protect Server

The Spectrum Protect Operations Center has developed into a very useful tool. Due to its clear structure and well thought-out functions, it is becoming increasingly popular, especially with new Spectrum Protect customers. To complete the picture o...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus file level backup/recovery for physical servers

ISPP needs a feature for backup/restore of files/filesystems for physical servers similar to the feature set of a IBM Spectrum Protect BA client
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Planned for future release

TLS Email Support

Today does IBM Storage Protect OC has support to email reports over email, but this hasn't been updated for a wild now and the supported protocol is a unsecure SMTP port 25 communcation and we can always create a SMTP tunnel to a Cloud SMTP Server...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

Support for RHEL 9

Now when SPP is not going to be future develop and we need to run a VMware Backups using Dark Site software we falling back to IBM Storage Protect for VMware and we have test it on a RedHat Enterprise Server 9.2 and it works fine accept the servic...

We would like to be able to backup AWS S3 buckets

We have many AWS S3 buckets that users update every day. Versioning is very expensive as there is no dedup/compression and this is especially true if you replicate across AWS regions. We would like to be able to backup and restore files to S3 like...
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

Spectrum Protect Plus hardware snapshot support

Spectrum Protect Plus currently do not support hardware snapshots as the current Spectrum Protect Snapshot a.k.a. FCM software does - and current Spectrum CDM has no option to recover (flash-revert) the production copy from a snapshot.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release