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Storage Protect Family

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    Server audit log for restore operations

    In some scenarios it might be desirable, that restore operations for specific nodes can be logged - so that it later on is possible to do a traceback to identify a given account, that performed a restore of one or more objects on a client. The log...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Delivered

    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...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 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.
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

    Support for RHEL9 for Storage Protect Server

    RHEL 8 is more than 5 years old. RHEL 9 was already released more than 2 years ago (was officially released on May 17, 2022), It would be a good idea to add it as Operating System for Storage Protect Server.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

    TSM for VE GUI Improvements.

    1.- Currently when we go to scheduler a backup/restore of VMs we need to expand the datacenter and then expand esx by esx in order to look for the VM. This doesn't like to the customers, especially when they have many ESXs. We need to see all VMs ...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Delivered

    TSM for VE - Add support for Multiple vCenter & TSM Servers

    Add the functionality for configuring multiple vCenter and TSM Servers to on the same TSM for VE (VMware) GUI. This will allow customers to be able to manage multiple vCenter servers and also to manage backups to multiple TSM Servers.
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Delivered

    Policy based purge of defunct nodes and data

    Today, if you need to purge a node from the environment because it has been retired or no longer needed, one waits for the data t age through its retention policy, then delete fi (of any active data remaining) and then remove node. This process is...
    almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Delivered

    Add SHA256 checksum to Passport Advantage packages

    Please Add SHA256 checksum to Passport Advantage webpage image file details.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Delivered

    SPP archive to on-prem COS

    Archive to on-prem COS: Our team uses Spectrum Protect Plus for VMWare incremental backups to COS vaults without issue. In one policy, incremental backups are taken daily and kept for 7 days. The archive feature in any SPP policy only allows for a...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

    Estimated end time and update process indicator at the first start after update

    When the Spectrum Protct Server is updated, db2 table schemas are updated frequently. This can could take a long time to be usable the first time it is started after the update. Unfortunately, you don't see a progress bar and you can't foresee whe...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

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