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Status Future consideration
Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories Spectrum Protect (Server)
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 13, 2023

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Provide option to prevent object-splitting on tape

Having clients archiving and restoring directly to and from tape we're trying to have the least possible amount of tape mounts.

However at the end of a lot of tapes the last file gets split when EOV occurs. There should be an option to consider a tape with enough free capacity to prevent splitting objects when EOV is reached during archiving. This could be done on device class level.

Spectrum Protect knows the utilization and estimated capacity of volumes/tapes. During archiving the file size is already known while a mount is requested.

In our case this manly concerns non-compressible high-resolution videofiles which makes the needed free space on tape even easier to calculate. Even if the object to archive is compressible the initially needed free space would still be sufficient to prevent splitting.


Idea priority High
  • Admin
    Juan Carlos Jimenez Fuentes
    Reply
    |     Jan 20, 2023

    This request may not be delivered within the release currently under development, but the theme is aligned with the current multi-year strategy. IBM may consider and evaluate any RFE Community feedback for this request through activities such as voting. IBM will update this request in the future.

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