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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories Spectrum Protect (Server)
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 31, 2011

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Flexible NDMP Backups

What we wanna change is how TSM control the NDMP dumps and assigning the
MGMT Class to each object.
We want to make sure when I assign a MGMT Class to my dedicated backup.
Then should that backup be save for that amount of time and not change the
history of the full.
I can understand that I can't save a DIFF Backup longer then a FULL. But
why not Make pendancy that if a DIFF Backup still exist then can't TSM
delete the Full in the same way it works with the TSM for MAIL/DB.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 12, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Tivoli
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 26, 2012

    Thank you for submitting this enhancement request, and please accept my sincere apologies for the long delay in replying to this request, we do understand the requirement and the rationale behind it but unfortunately we currently do not plan to implement this function, as an alternative (at least for Netapp filers) an NDMP snapmirror-to-tape backup can be done using a different managment class and be retained for a longer time than the standard NDMP base /differential backups.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 26, 2011

    this could have been helped by a true Incremental NDMP backup. This is provided by other backup software vendors using Netapps. Unfortunately this was rejected http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=13071 .

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