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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 3, 2014

RELATED IDEAS

Display restore/ retreive size prior to performing action.

Be able to find the amount of data that is to be restored given the current selection in the GUI/web client.
Using the cli you can run a
q backup <filspec> -subdir=yes -querysummary
To get a total file count, size, est number of tapes etc
This information is not available via the GUI/web interface.

I am proposing some possible solutions
1 Size is displayed in the status bar at the bottom of the window.
2 Have a button, in the toolbar or next to the "Point in Time" button, that will show the summary information in a popup dialog
3 Have a size of the selected items displayed next to each directory on the left tree view.

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
    |     Oct 28, 2014

    Thank you for submitting the request. This is a recognized requirement and a solution appears to be desirable. This request is not in a committed release plan for this year,
    but the theme is aligned with our multi-year strategy, and will be a candidate for our future release. IBM’s plans may change and no commitment is made that a solution will be provided.

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