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Need a way to store Incremental dbbackup on same tape as full dbbackup

is there is a way to store Incremental dbbackup on same tape as full dbbackup ? since we will use numstream for dbbackup we will consume lots of tape witout filling them up to their high capacity further explanation:Using the numstream option at D...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

blah blah - just a test

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almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / HSM for Windows 1 Not under consideration

Working Version for tsm 6.3 on solaris 10 x86

hello, this is not really a new feature. on ibm webpages, solaris 10 x86 is "not supported" for the server and client. so it wood be good to have versions for solaris10 x86
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

NDMP consistent PIT restore based on differential backup

Dear dW, we would like to have the chance to make a consistent restore based on a differential NDMP backup. In the current implementation restoring an NDMP differential results in having the deleted files restored as well.For example if I have the...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

ANS1360I message only in clientlog, but not in Servers actlog

following message in dsmsched.log: 11/23/2011 21:02:26 Normal File--> 47,610 \\server1\c$\xxx\file_name.pdfANS1360I Compressed Data Grew It is not possible to monitor this error automatically, because its only in clients error log. also it is a...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TSM NDMP Support for EMC VNXe backups

We would like the ability to backup CIFS shares on an EMC VNXe (Low cost storage array, supports CIFS only) storage array. This would be via NDMP protocol.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Is there any way to replicate a node excluding certain file extensions?

Is there any way to replicate a node excluding certain file extensions? I know we can choose the filespace and the data type (backup/archive), but I could not find any way to do it with this level of granularity.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

HSM client must destroy orphaned DM sessions of all its processes

The Tivoli HSM client (aka TSM for Space Management) must clean up orphaned DM sessions of all its processes. Currently, only certain daemon processes do this. However, most of the commands - e.g. dsmdf, dsmmigrate, dsmreconcile... - open DM sessi...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 3 Is a defect

We need to be able to create two backup copies from the same backup db 'job' - two copies of the backup on 2 sep. stg pools

We need to be able to create two backup copies from the same backup db 'job' - two copies of the backup on two separate storage pools (file devc).
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

SnapProtect functionnality with TSM using VMware and LVM

SnapProtect is a new function from the nSeries. We need TSM to catalog the snapshots created by the nSeries and be able to restore file level directly from the snapshot. Other solution on the market is already available to offer this solution.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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