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Storage Protect Family

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Prevent media with read/write errors to be reused

When a tape has a write error, it should not be reused when it has returned to scratch pool. We need some method to track media statistics across the life time of a tape, from all the SP host that has used the tape. Each SP server should send tape...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

New Vsphere TAG at VM level to specify scheduling priority

A new PRIORITY tag at vm level could be used to force the tdp4ve backup schedule to backup the vms in a desired sequence ( ex priority option from 0 to 100 ) default 100 , 0 highest priority 100 lowest priority. Customer are often requesting to ba...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Add completed timestamp on failed administrative events

Add "completed" timestamp to administrative events if the administrative schedule fails.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Customer-managed encryption keys with KJM support in GCP Buckets

Why is it useful? Enabling CMEK support with KMS for GCP buckets provides Enhanced Security, Compliance Requirements, Key Rotation and Management, Data Sovereignty Who would benefit? Banking Customers, Customers with strict encryption requirements...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

support for openzfs on linux

Please add native support for backing up the openzfs on linux filesystem. OpenZFS on linux is used quite extensively at the national labs. Current workaround options to get by such as using virtualmountpoints are unwieldy. pools may have a large n...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Improve "generate dedupstats" to run filespaces in node parallell

When running generate dedupstats on a node with thousands of VM filespaces, it runs for weeks before it completes. These should kick off in separate processes so that it can be managed by the Maxprocesses value.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Node Replication & DR - Enable client backup to the Target TSM Server

Enable the BA/TDP clients to send backup data to the target server in case of a failure of the primary server (node replication enabled)
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

better LDAP and MS AD integration in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Better and easier integration of LDAP, especially complex Microsoft Active Directory for Spectrum Protect Plus. The functionality and setting options are currently too limited.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Show which backup is full and which is incremental as listed

Spectrum Protect Plus backs up as first full and then incremental forever. In some cases CBT can be erased so SPP needs to take full backup.We can see if the backup is full or incremental on the backup job logs.But we need to examine all the backu...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Protection of namespaces under AKS - Azure Kubernetes Services

We have customer in Brazil which would like to protect just the namespaces which they have on AKS, storing this backup on Azure Object Storage. Currently, SPP does not support AKS.
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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