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My votes: Spectrum Protect for Mail

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Windows Server 2019 Core

Exchange 2019 is supported on Windows Server 2019 Server Core. We need support for backup/restore on this platform Microsoft is pushing Windows Server 2019 Server Core as the OS of choice for Exchange 2019. On https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/e...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Delivered

DP for Exchange GUI behaviour

We would like to have a few improvements in the DP for Exchange GUI.How the GUI bahaves during restore operations.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Delivered

Exchange2010 backup & Restore - Morethan one passive databases

Exchange2010 Passive DAG backup, we have 2 copies of passive databases. These are on different hosts so we wind up backing up both copies. This adds to our total occupancy as well as taking up bandwidth of the client.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 3 Delivered

TDP for Domino on Linux x86 & x86_64

Tivoli Data Protection for Domino does not support Linux on x86 & x86_64 systems after 5.5.3 while Domino supports this platform. When will this platform become supported again for current versions of Tivoli Data Protection?
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 4 Delivered

256 bit encryption for IBM Spectrum Protect for Lotus Domino

The API for TSM for DOMINO does not support 256 bit encryption, the industry standard. We need to have 256 bit encryption to satisfy a requirement by our internal business partners.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Delivered

We have a customer who wants backup up Exchange-2013.

HiI am writing to you because the support has recommended it to me.We have a customer who wants backup up Exchange-2013.Unfortunately, I can understand that there is no BA/TDP clients to the version yetCan you then tell me if it in any way is poss...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Delivered

TDP agent Exchange 2010 DAG awareness

1. TDP agent aware of all the nodes in the DAG cluster so that they would be visible from any TDP agent GUI in the cluster. 2. TDP agent acts as the conductor on DAG setups when performing backup so backups can be started in parallel on each windo...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 5 Delivered

Reduce permissions required

We would highly appreciate if you could investigate the real permission requirements for the backup service account. Organisatio Level requirement is too high, other vendors are currently investigating and providing test patches.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 4 Delivered

adding management class option in the TDP for mail client ( in flash copy manager)

Hi,Here is Elif Ahmetoglu from Vakifbank Cloud System Management team in Turkiye and working on Backup & Storage Platform. we are using TDP for mail client. We want to you add the management class option when creating scchedule job. for exampl...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Delivered

Recovery mailbox EXCHANGE

The feature exists, but don´t work correctly. TDP EXCHANGE don´t work fine and in several situations we aren´t able to recovery mailboxes. The tools designed don´t work as expected
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 3 Delivered