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Archive function

An ability to run archive on the TSM server side insted of from the clientsid where you have the competition with normal backup windows.When the archive is on diskpool, dedup can be used.generate backupset is to devclass that can't be deduped.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

Dedup info command

A tool for information of the status of DedupQ DEDUPlike 'sh dedupdeleteinfo' witch is a undocumented one
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Planned for future release

Incorrect steps on windows backup archive client instalation guide

On page52, step 6, it's not clear that the key to be entered on the cluster configuration needs to EXCLUDE the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\, or the cluster won't let the key be added. I think there should be an example clarifying it. I.e., registry key HKE...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Is a defect

fastback server CDP

this is for TSM FASTBACK 6.1.x.x. IBM 5724-U93there is a CDP option in he Job Schedules.When a restoring from such backup , there is a timeline showing up and the time of the desired point of recovery can be selected. The great idea with CDP , is ...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 3 Not under consideration

MOVE NODEDATA from random access pools

MOVE NODEDATA should allow operations on DISK storage pools, for both source and target.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Backup client for SAP HANA

There is a need to develop a real backup solution for SAP HANA. As it is today all backups are done on a full-backup base from files. Since the database can be quite large this is a problem.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Planned for future release

FCM: Opt to include non-db filesystems in fcm for db2

Need non-db filesystems propery included along with db-filesystems during "db2 backup as snapshot" Currently, fcm allows a NEGATIVE_LIST param, but the allowed extra data is not properly "frozen" (chfs -a freeze). Cloning has a similar option (FLA...
almost 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Change in order for the TSM6.3 Restore process of WORM enabled File system

Issue: IBM TSM (non NDMP) is used to take backup of WORMed/Retained file, it backs up file content and also backs up the Xattr “ibrix.virtual.retention_state” along with the value of the Xattr. Now, when IBM TSM restores a retained/WORMed file on ...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 5 Not under consideration

Provide general ability for the ordinary user to use SpMg Tape Optimized Recall

The Tape Optimized Recall (TOR) feature finally being provided in the TSM client 6.3 should immediately be "expanded" to allow the ordinary user to take advantage of this long sought feature. The (initial) root limitation on TOR is severely limiti...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 4 Not under consideration

It takes a long time to start / terminate TSM Server after DB backup

After db backup, TSM server does not quickly start or terminate because of waiting for expanding a truncated log of DB2. A real case at solaris environment is that it took 14 minutes to stop TSM server. That means it wiil also take 14 minutes to s...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration