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Storage Protect Family

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    Support for Active Directory Item restore

    Today does IBM Storage Protect Backup-Archive Client only support to protect Microsoft Active Directory and do a total Disaster Recovery of Microsoft Active Directory. If we want to restore only one item in the Active Directory to get back from a ...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

    double library libTsmViSdk.so / unnecessary space usage

    We noticed that the libTsmViSdk.so library is included into the TIVsm-API64 and TIVSM-BA package: bash-4.4$ find /opt/tivoli/ -name libTsmViSdk.so /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/api/bin64/libTsmViSdk.so /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/libTsmViSdk.so bash-4....
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

    Directory Container Erasure Coding

    I have multiple smaller customers where we only have 1 Storage Protect server and are not using any tape to be able to run protect storage pool. This is little bit of a risk and also we put all our data in to one solution and if we get bad contain...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

    Access to AWS S3 buckets with object lock enabled via a VPC Endpoint

    For security reasons we must access AWS S3 buckets via a VPC Endpoint. We also require that the S3 bucket has object lock enabled. We have set this up and tested it and it does not currently work. We are able to read/write to the S3 bucket via a V...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Tagging Node and Data

    We see more and more situations where specific nodes or filespaces need to have different functions such Retention Set, Replication to multiple servers or protect to tape and this is a big hazel to mange where we have try both with Node Groups, de...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Retention rule Media be part of DRM

    If you are using Container Pool and want to create a air-gap copy of your data, either you do a protect storage pool to protect everything to your tape device or if you want to keep a offline copy for a longer period then the normal policy domain ...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Enhancement Request - Automating audit operations to detect damaged extents, inconsistencies, and corrupted files in the background

    Periodic runs of the audit containers command or using audit stgrule options are required to scan the chunks and detect any inconsistencies and damages. This is an intensive and manual operation that adds additional overhead to the Storage Protect...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Allow custom configuration of ciphers used by a Spectrum Protect server for TLS connections

    Spectrum Protect servers use TLS for incoming client and administrative sessions over the netowrk. An incoming TLS connection is offered a number of ciphers to use for the TLS connection by the Spectrum Protect server. Whilst this list of ciphers ...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Improve the error Prone Default Settings for Data Movers in TDP-VE

    We recently upgraded to TDP-VE for VMware v8.1.23 and when adding a new data mover over the WebGUI provides the User with default settings to add to the local .opt file. Under Windows this cause an issue with the logfile location. Below are the se...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Under review

    Enable replication server in the same AIX cluster as the SP

    The client has an SP server mounted on a two-node AIX PowerHA cluster.When there is a failover, the SP service reloads from Node 1 to Node 2.The client backs up OCP (Openshift) with IBM Fusion Backup. To store the data, a Directory-type STGPool ha...
    8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

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