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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 3, 2019

SP Client - Suppress interactive prompts

Hello,

we do a lot of scripted restores and backups. We found that in a replicated environment under certain conditions a restore operation would for example prompt with
"ANS2120W The last store operation date reported by the server .... does not match the last store operation"

It is currently not possible to suppress this prompt with a commandline option which now requires that we change our automation software, which can be challenging in other ways.

Please introduce an option in the dsm.opt or dsm.sys file to choose a default answer to such questions (not just for ANS2120) so that an interactive prompt is not needed anymore. This way a scripted restore/backup operation can continue in the background and changes to the automation software are not needed.

Idea priority Medium