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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

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Spectrum Protect Client and Microsoft Onedrive backup failed.

IBM Case #TS001008967 The Spectrum Protect Client is crashing when it takes backup of files within the Microsoft's Onedrive synced folder. Example:06/08/2018 10:07:37 ANS9999E ..\..\common\winnt\ntrc.cpp(765): Received Win32 RC 362 (0x0000016a) fr...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Is a defect

Backup of subdirectories within Windows CIFS SHARES recursively processed despite of deactivation with dsmc incr subdir=no

In spite of setting the option subdir=no for incremental file backup, mounted CIFS Shares on Windows File Server will be processed recursively. The reason for this behaviour is caused by an unsuccessful execution of the NetShareGetInfo function wi...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Is a defect

RC=12 is not required for successful processing.

When the IBM Spectrum Protect backup/archive client detects that a self-signed digital certificate has expired, the expiration date is updated, but RC=12 is returned and "ANS1579E" is recorded.The process is successful and I would like RC=0 to be ...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Is a defect

ENCRYPTIONType AES256 can be reduced to AES128 with a client option set

Extend the client option srvoptsetencryptiondisabled that even the encryptiontype can't be overruled with a client options set.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Is a defect

Ignore/Skip Windows RC Codes during Backup

As you can see in the PMR we got a big problem with some files on a netapp filer. This files were created by randomly by netapp filer. Problem is that these files have no owner, or other NTFS securitys so an windows RC appears if the BA Client try...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Is a defect

dsm.opt file getting blanked out when disk is full

We have observed couple of times that on Windows BA client dsm.opt file is getting banked out. dsm.opt size becomes 0 bytes and file is empty. We are using node replication. When disk is full and node replication is being used then while running b...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Is a defect

File permission - default at 666, change to 644

The following have permissions set (by default) to 666: /etc/adsm/Nodes/<node_name>/spclicert.crl/etc/adsm/Nodes/<node_name>/spclicert.rdb/etc/adsm/Nodes/<node_name>/spclicert.kdb Setting at 644 works for root user. It is possibl...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Is a defect

Set correct locale for dsmcad RC script on Ubuntu 14.04

The rc.dsmcad init script does not set the locale in all cases. Since dsmcad starts dsmc, this leads to encoding errors (ANS4042E) and several files not being backed up on SuSE and Ubuntu systems. For RedHat systems, the file /etc/init.d/functions...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Is a defect

World Writable permissions to citScanOutput.xml

We are working with a Banking client in which access to the Backup data to other users can cause issues. The File citScanOutput.xml which gets World writeable permissions may cause an security violation
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Is a defect

Correct reporting of unsupported OSes

I have been advised to submit an RfE following on from PMR 45729,001,866. We have noticed that TSM does not reliably report the OS level of unsupported OSes. As far as we are concerned, it used to do so: for example, when Mac OS X 10.9 was release...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Is a defect

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