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Storage Protect Family

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Spectrum Protect Node Replication - option to block DELETE BACKUP/ARCHIVE from replicating to target server

Add possibility to supress replicating "delete backup"/"delete archive" commands from node replication, possibly depending on setting "DISSIMILARPOLICIES" or "backdelete/archdelete=no for node on target server (possibly new parameter not to confus...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Delivered

Backup directory-container storage pools to tape

We need the ability to backup or move data from directory-container storage pools to tape.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Support Protection of SaaS Cloud Services

IBM needs to be able to provide a solution for protection of SaaS offerings, the key ones being:MS Office 365, Mail, OneDrive, SharePointGoogle AppsSalesforce.com
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Renew Certificate for all clients

Now have many of our IBM Storage Protect Server been running for years and it is time to renew our certificate especially our self-signed version that many of our installations has been configured with. In the 8.1.20 Server version is it now possi...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Delivered

Operations Center - add activity log details for server maintenance

Customer would like to have the ability to view related Spectrum Protect server activity log records pertaining to server maintenance activities reported in the Operations Center. As of now, the OC reports little more than success/failure.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Delivered

IMPORT an EXPORT on TAPE

In some cases, customers need to keep client nodes as they were on a monthly, or yearly basis.To meet this requirement, we use the EXPORT NODE command :EXPORT NODE node1,node2,…nodeXWhen access to exported data is requested, we use the IMPORT NODE...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

mirror storage pool

For one storage pool to be an exact replica of another pool and be equivalent in every way, to the extend that if one pool becomes unavailable all activity continues on the remaining pool, including write activity. This would also involve changing...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Support needed on client side dedupliaction for NextStgPool when MaxSize is being used on first storage pool.

Support is needed for client deduplication not being disabled for the rest of the session, if an object from a client exceed the defined MaxSize on the first storage pool, and then is being backed up to the next storage pool (which might or might ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Immutable feature on Object storage

We would like to keep the backup data that we copied on cloud as immutable.This means that the data will remain indelible for the period we set.Thus, we can protect our data from attacks such as hackers who intentionally want to delete them.Spectr...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 4 Delivered

ZFS Support for Spectrum Protect Server on Linux x86_64

Having support for ZFS filesystem on Linux x86_64 is a must. ZFS filesystem is a strong and reliable filesystem that exists for years in Solaris world.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

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