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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 20, 2013

Add capability to extract data from existing TSM backup to a second node

A lerge number of customer require periodic long retention backups.    Currently the most space efficient way of achieveing this is by having a second node for the long term retention and running periodic ( e.g. weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly ) backup schedules against this node.

This introduces additional complexity as a second scheduler requires setup on the client end.    The alternateive of using the -asnode option is not viable as it requires dedicated schedules for each system.

I propose an addition capability to the TSM serves allowing data to be extracted internally ( similar to a backupset ) analysed and copied to another node, performing the incremental forever comparison so that the storage utilization is kept to a minimum.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    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
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    Jul 23, 2014

    Thank you for submitting this request. We apologize for the delay in our response. Unfortunately we will not be implementing a solution as suggested in the next year or two but we will continue to track this request internally. If after our next release you would like us to reconsider your request, please resubmit it. We appreciate the feedback.