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Manually select a specific snapshot and offload for long-term retention

Manually select a specific backup/snapshot and offload it for long-term retention.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect faster backup and restore for Filer

Spectrum Protect's Backup by General Storage's MAGS parallelizes the process of checking objects for changes. As a result, this time-consuming part of the backup on file servers is massively accelerated.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Ability to replicate storage fusion backup and restore service protection

When we backup the service protection to an s3 compliant backup location, the service protection cannot be replicated to another s3 compliant backup location say at a DR site. It would be ideal if we can replication the service protection backup t...
6 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Minute level snapshot policy for granular point in time restore

We would like to get minute level snapshot policy for granular point in time restore which allows our users to have and ability to go back in time in case of any issues. Now the policies are available only for hourly, daily and weekly. On our curr...
2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Fully declarative cephadm experience

Clients moving to cephadm yaml-based declarative Ceph management expect that they can fully manage day-1 and day-2 operations using that method so that they can leverage the GitOps pattern for operations. Areas to be improved: Every parameter that...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage CEPH 0 Under review

Provide a changelog for Scale releases

Please provide a changelog identifying the APARs fixed in a Scale Mod, Release, or Version change
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Automate backup of cluster etcd

Using Fusion backup as a cluster level DR solution requires backing up the entire etcd data so the cluster can be rebuilt before using Fusion to redeploy the projects/namespaces. OCP 4.14 includes undated instructions on backing up and restoring a...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 2 Future consideration

Policy Based Replication Recovery Volume Names

We appreciate the simplicity of Policy Based Replication setup; however, we are in need of these two features to be added: 1. Allow custom naming of the recovery volumes. This is needed because we do not use the same system names between each site...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Process monitoring of the ESSNI communication layer

The ESSNI communication layer connecting the Management Console with the Clusters/LPARs internal and the Client Interfaces (CLI , GUI , CSM) external is a very complex communication environment. According to the current design there is no extern...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Alternative Archive Destination with Oracle

If, for any reason, the DB or Backup has had a problem und the archive destination is filled for 100% the DB get's in stuck.DB Administrator will choose an alternative archive destination.After Backup works again, it only backup the archive logs f...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

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