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FCM For VMware Ver 3.2.0.2 - Improvement to Backup Status Report

FCM reports a false status for virtual machines when checked by generating a backup status report using the Reports > Backup Status Option with FCM GUI. With FCM for VMware 3.2.0.2 onwards FCM functionality has been improved to continue the bac...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

FCM4UNIX: multiple occurrences of DATABASE_BACKUP_INCREMENTEL_LEVEL incl. USE_AT clause in FCM profile required

Hi Tivoli :-) For incremental level Oracle (native) backups the DATABASE_BACKUP_INCREMENTAL_LEVEL statement must be usable multiple times like the INCREMENTAL_LEVEL statement for SAP/Oracle backups: INCREMENTAL_LEVELThis parameter is only for use ...
almost 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Flash Copy cold backup for Oracle while running in NOARCHIVELOG mode

We have several Oracle databases running in NOARCHIVELOG mode that we need to perform a cold backup on via flash copy manager. Oracle said this is a supported operation but Flash Copy Manager looks to see if Oracle is running in Archive mode or no...
almost 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

Restore of Archive-Mailbox from Exchange via Flash Copy Manager

Swiss National Bank is not satisfied with the answer we got for PMR 05632,031,848. We were referred to Technote 1598343 ( http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21598343 ) which states that TDP Exchange / FlashCopy Manager does not suppo...
almost 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Ability to cancel the offload tape backup with FCM

When a backup process is offloaded to a backup server, it may take several hours. For example with a customer, each offload process takes 8 to 12 hours. At time, we need to cancel it when we try to backup development applications to make sure that...
almost 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM: VMware - Additional Question for Security Reasons

In case of restore a VM to its original location, the Plugin asks to overwrite it. This is great. We would like to see another additional question, if the VM still is running. E.g. "The VM you want to restore is still running. Do you really want t...
almost 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

TDP for SQL exclusion of offline databases in backups

TDP for SQL agent skip/ignore/exclude offline databases in the backup process. Error code:ANE4993E (Session: 304432, Node: proxynode) TDP MSSQL Win32 ACO3002 Data Protection for SQL: full backup of database BannerProvisioning from server node fail...
about 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Restrict FCM to manage the own source and target volumes (multi tenancy)

Reference: Technical Exchange call with Mr. Uhl, Munz, Calvus 7/18/2013In a shared SAN-enviroment, security is very important for a service provider with multiple customers. We want to use FCM running on different operating systems in combination ...
about 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM: Support disk partitions on Linux

The customer requires support for disk partitions on Linux. Statement 2.0.10 of the FlashCopy Manager for UNIX and Linux prerequisites checklist explicitly excludes this support.
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Can we use FCM installed on Windows to manage luns on Aix

1)We have flashcopy manager 3.2 installed on windows,can we use it to do flashcopy of the luns ,presented to Aix server.if Yes,how it can be achieved.If no,any other remedy to fix this.2)We have SVC of version 6.2.0.5,Aix of 5.3 and DB2 of v9.1,3)...
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

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