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Storage Protect Family

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SPP Migrate Offloaded Data between different Cloud Providers

Spectrum Protect Plus should provide a functionality to migrate offloaded backups between cloud providers.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support export node when using directory container storage pools

Simpler way to move data from one SP server to another versus node replication, also support export node ti filedev class.The command export node today runs but in actlog all files present that it is not allowed, the command should have resturned ...
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

SnapMirror 2 Tape NetApp - Restore Data to a different NetApp (CASE: TS013360935)

SnapMirror 2 Tape NetApp - Restore Data to a different NetApp (CASE: TS013360935)
almost 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

No direct option for secondary copy to cloud and no immutable copy feature

Spectrum Protect Integrating with the cloud for a secondary copy streamlines backups, eliminating the need for an another on-premises backup server. This approach offers cost efficiency, scalability, remote accessibility, redundancy, automated man...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

cert_distribute.sh script should allow customers to input a list of client nodes

In the current implementations, the cert_distribute.sh shell script at levels 8.1.21 and 8.1.22 queries the Storage Protect server for all its Storage Protect client nodes, does some filtering to select only supported platforms, and then will asso...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

IBM Spectrum IBM Spectrum Protect Replication to 3rd SP Server and/or Public Cloud Storage

We can currently only replicate a node's data to only 1 IBM Spectrum Protect server. Various customers now have a requirement to replicate to a 3rd site or to the cloud.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 6 Not under consideration

Support for vCloud Director

We have several MSP partners who are installing vCloud director and who are using or plan to use SPP. VMware has published the following document regarding vCloud Backup:Backup Design for vCloud Tenant vAppshttps://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digit...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 5 Future consideration

Update notification for gui-clients when new version is available

We have a lot of not technically savvy customers (their pcs are not managed by the backup-admins) which are not checking for client updates on their own.I think it would be useful to have a popup notification when an client update is available (as...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Automate scan and fix of "unavailable" containers for Spectrum Protect servers

Today I found that a number of vm's did not backup snapshots to the (container based) storage pool. This happened before and points to the error: ANS9351E Data was not available on server and was skipped. Processing snapshot ----------------------...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Future consideration

SPP to backup resources (metadata) from Kubernetes, not only pv, by namespaces

We need support for backup of a namespace being not only able to backup and restore PV but also secrets, ConfigMaps, deployments, routes, services. of a Kubernetes namespace
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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