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Storage Protect Family

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    Tag Data Mover available on folder level

    Hello Currently it's not possible to configure Data Mover on a folder vmware for all VMs of this one and you have to do it manually one by one. And we have to not forget to do it each time a new vm is placed in this folder. Thanks for adding this ...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Under review

    How to calculate backed data volume on Replication / SPPArchive / Cloud storage?

    HalloBacked up date is storing on BACKUP vsnap and then are copied to REPLCATION VSNAP (and maybe Cloud, SPPArchive/tape) We can easily calculate size of backed up date on BACKUP vsnap based on output from this endpoint: "/api/endeavour/catalog/re...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

    remove systemV init.d script for DSMCAD

    The current packaging of TIVsm-BA includes a symbolic link /etc/init.d/dsmcad -> /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/rc.dsmcad which results in the creation of the directory /etc/init.d if it does not already exist. This is incompatible with the chkc...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Under review

    SPF-I-3280 .. regarding this idea .. can you please explain how this function is working

    There is a customer requirement to generate a report from event table .. to have a daily overview from client backup .. to have start time, endtime, and status from each backup. Additionally the customer need the output from the client, which Mgmt...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Under review

    success ful backup in database

    So according to this case the filespace table in database, column "last_successful_backup" for Exchange TDP is only updated if replication is configured. If replication is not running, this value is not updated as it should.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Tiering rules need more flexibility for Filesystem and/or type of data (Backup/Archive)

    I would like to see the tiering rules to be able to be a bit more flexible. I have a node that has Backup and Archive data.Backup data is more often needed quickly so a backup location in ContainerPools is valid.The Archive data is kept 10 years a...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Create Reports for Data which is send to Object Storage for single Clients / Servers

    Hello actually we need to create Reports for Data which is sent from SPP to TSM Object Storage within additional copies and archives. I can not find a report type in SPP which supports the report for data amounts for additional copies / archives. ...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

    Change QUERY OCCUPANCY to show the number of files backed up for each node/filespace in a directory container storage pool.

    Currently QUERY OCCUPANCY returns the number of 10GB fragments associated with each file/object. So if a file is 54GB in size it will report this under QUERY OCCUPANCY six files; where five fragments occupy 10GB, and one as 4GB. As a customer the ...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Analoga to QUERY OCCUPANCY

    For Nodes with complex data structure is often not enough to get information at the end of dsmc q ba "Path_to_objects/*" -subdir=yes -ina -querysummary with Total Data etc. More detailed aggregated information with backup/archive data amount and n...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

    Change the IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Microsoft SQL Server autoselect to select backups prior to the backup endtime, instead of the backups prior to the backup starttime

    The LSN (Log Sequence Number) checkpoint is created when an SQL backup concludes. This can lead to the autoselect function in IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Microsoft SQL Server, selecting a log backup between the Difffuls or Full backups start...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Under review

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