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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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Add Webinterface to Debian based Linux.

A customer have based most of their production on Debian based Linux distros (Debian and Ubuntu) with no GUI in the server install. In the BA client DEB package the WebClient module is missing, the RPM package TIVsm-WEBGUI.x86_64.rpm
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

Enable Storage Protect backup archive client testflag SKIPDATEMISMATCHWARNING for restore and retrieve

In a replication failover scenario, the Storage Protect backup/ archive client is comparing the local stored last backup/ archive date with the date stored on the Storage Protect server. If the local date is older than the date stored on the Stora...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Under review

To have a possiblity to disable certain ciphers on BA

As one of our customers is operating an SP environment, they are regularly check with PEN-tests. And each year the find the BA to be possible vulnerable to CVE-2013-0169 (LUCKY13) as there are CBC ciphers available on the "schemode=prompted port" ...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

For Storage Protect Backup/Archive client add a dsmcad systemd unit file that is instance aware.

Sometimes it is useful to run multiple dsmcad instances on a single host. Each will backup different file spaces to different tsm backup nodes. To accomplish this additional dsmcad systemd unit files must be created. systemd unit files have this t...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Under review

Support for Active Directory Item restore

Today does IBM Storage Protect Backup-Archive Client only support to protect Microsoft Active Directory and do a total Disaster Recovery of Microsoft Active Directory. If we want to restore only one item in the Active Directory to get back from a ...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

gskcrypt64-8.0.55 rpm packages require invalid binary files /bin/ln and /bin/sh

For a long time RHEL has provided both /bin/X and /usr/bin/X even though the packages only install /usr/bin/X This is true for RHEL7, RHEL8 and RHEL9 The gskcrypt64 package should have been changed a long time ago to require /usr/bin/X components ...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

double library libTsmViSdk.so / unnecessary space usage

We noticed that the libTsmViSdk.so library is included into the TIVsm-API64 and TIVSM-BA package: bash-4.4$ find /opt/tivoli/ -name libTsmViSdk.so /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/api/bin64/libTsmViSdk.so /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/libTsmViSdk.so bash-4....
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

Analoga to QUERY OCCUPANCY

For Nodes with complex data structure is often not enough to get information at the end of dsmc q ba "Path_to_objects/*" -subdir=yes -ina -querysummary with Total Data etc. More detailed aggregated information with backup/archive data amount and n...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

Disable scan of files before archiving when using filelist

We have been archiving with file lists for over 20 years, so we know that the client archived differently and, above all, faster in earlier versions (5-7). If you specified a file list in these old versions, archiving started within a few seconds,...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

Need Support for Open Enterprise Server (OES) OS which is LINUX Distribution

My customer just upgraded his supported OES to a newer version and are being told by IBM that it's no longer support on Spectrum Protect. This OS has been supported in the past (see https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/linux-x8664-requirements-ibm-st...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

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