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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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    Remove unecessary QUERY JOB errors from actlog due to running servermon

    When servermon is activated using the parameter ALWAYSONSERVERMON on, the message “ANR0213E QUERY JOB: No jobs found” appears in actlog every 10 minutes. This cannot be disabled, even if you delete or comment out the entry QUERY JOB FORMAT=detail ...
    5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

    Disaster recovery from Storage Protect backup pool for big file systems

    We are running multiple Storage Scale file systems in the multi Petabyte size. All data are in Storage Protect backup. The backup is very valuable in case of user driven data loss. But in the case of a disaster where the complete file system is lo...
    8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Provide ENABLECLOUDDATALock on cloud container stgpools also for Azure blob storage.

    We need the option ENABLECLOUDDATALock on cloud container stgpools also for Azure blob storage, it is working for AWS S3 and Google Cloud Storage, but actually not for Azure blob.
    10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

    Use larger containers for NonDedup data

    We have about 100k of small 64M containers that stores Non Dedup data(one SP instance). Other types of data gets stored in containers up to 10G in size. NonDedup data should be stored in larger files of 1G or maybe even 10G. This would reduce file...
    10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Backup database to s3/cloud - support for immutability

    Cloud container pool has support for immutability and if you store data there, it makes sense to also be able to store the database backup in cloud with immutability. Currently, database can be stored in cloud, but no immutability.
    10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

    GCP Object Lock support

    Backups immutability feature by using google cloud object locking. Add GCP to a large list of already compatible object storage sources: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-spectrum-protect-object-storage-support
    10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Testar compatibilidade versão 9.7.1.0 do Isilon OneFS NDMP com TSM Client

    Testar compatibilidade versão 9.7.1.0 do Isilon OneFS NDMP com TSM Client com o Storage Protect 8.1.16 or posterior. Tivemos TS018215491 Quando vamos escolher o restore pela opção [ point in Time ] o mesmo da erro: ANS309E remote operation failed ...
    12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    Multiple Storage Protect Server DB backup on one tape

    Currently SP only supports storing one internal DB backup per volume. If using tape (as recommended) e.g. LTO9 this results in using a 18 TB tape volume for storing only 100 GB database backup. Running 20 instance and doing 2 DB backup per day kee...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

    Please, enhance ISP command to add option for does not check affinity IDs.

    Why is it useful? We expect to restore NDMP-formatted data retrieved from NAS in a cluster configuration from [tape media] (LTO) to another NAS storage system.However, this operation is not possible and we receive error code "ANR1766E" because the...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    We would like to store all our archive data on a S3 AWS cold tier target.

    We have a use case in our environment for sending our archive data to a cloud container pool that would exist on the Spectra Logic BlackPearl device that supports AWS cold tier functionality. With an S3 cold tier cloud container option we would no...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

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