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Exclude a Linux disk from TSM for VE backup

On Linux virtual machines, exclude disks from TSM/VE backups by their scsi number (e.g. scsi0, scsi1). TSM/VE can query Virtual Center, so it should know everything from that about each virtual machine and its disk(s).
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

'dsmj.log'

customer wants to have a option to have the possibility to enter the path where the 'dsmj.log' will be created
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

DB2 is backingup empty spaces

- The fastest way to backup is to not back it up at all. Change DB2 backup method so that just "used" spaces are backedup. If "empty" spaces is still needed because of "performance reasons, than consider using posix_fallocate / fseek etc during re...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

Keep transaction logs online as long as possible

The DB2 database has to allways retrieve all transaction logs from backup, even though the information might still be online.------------------------------------------------Here is an description how the backup is working today in DB2 The current ...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

TSM Server is backing up transaction logs twice

The TSM Server is backing up the transaction logs twice. 1. The DB2 is automatically backing up the transaction logs to ARCHIVELOGDIR; at each log switch.2. The TSM Server will backup the db2 database using: DB2 BACKUP DB TSMDB1 ONLINE USE TSM Due...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

VDisk Mirror monitoring events

Customer is requesting the addition of events for situations when SVC cannot update a vdiskcopy of a mirrored vdisk anymore. Furthermore TPC should capture and ad a constraint for those events, so that an admin can look at a constraint violation r...
about 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Recover TSM client after network breakdown

When TSM client is running and if a network breakdown happens, when network comes back, the user has no clue to find out what has been backed up and what the TSM client is going to do (which is not restarting, by the way).
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Have TSM not tampering my machine

I noticed that when TSM 5.x was running on my machine, I had problems running a web meeting at the same time as TSM Client was taking all (or most of) the network bandwidth. I would appreciated it if we could either allow a user to change the TSM ...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

q archive to have a summary view per description

have an option to "q archive" of -summary. This would then output the same information as q archive but in a summary format per description rather than per file egTotal Size - Last Archive Date - Time - File count - Expires on - Description 565 M ...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Add "number of copies/locations/storagepools" to q archive client output

We want to be able to be able to see from the client how many locations an archive is stored. A location being a storage pool. ie if it's in two storage pools it is in 2 locations. An additional detail parameter could be displayed as egStoragepool...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

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