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Request for Support and Documentation on StoreOnce ISV Controlled Data Immutability in Data Protector

SB31

In today's landscape, data immutability has become a fundamental requirement for all backup software, especially for enhancing protection against ransomware. Data Protector (DP) has been a strong contender in this area, providing early and robust support…
- 2 months ago
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DP should have a post processing engine to update index/catalog

Thomas Reichardt

adressing multipe issues: If a specific file (specific creation date) is required for restore from VMware backups, the restore expert would have to check multiple VM backups to find the correct file. If customer applied multi-disk agent approach to…
- over 1 year ago
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Object Copy/Replication Support into a secured isolated Sandbox environment

Joerg_R

This is a request to support Object Copy or Object Replication into a special isolated Data Protector cell for backup validation tasks like ransomware detection or deep data scans. Theses Object Copy or Object Replication sessions should provide support…
- over 1 year ago
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full file/oject catalogue creation per source (by postprocess)

Thomas Reichardt

for all backup sources where file/object catalogue is not created during backup itself a postprocess should regularly create a new full object/file catalogue (including the linkage to the corresponding sessions where the file/object is stored) this…
- over 1 year ago
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Improve object replication performance importing the media at replication end using more processes in parallel

Dionisio_S

Object replication (post backup or scheduled) can be executed replicating several of them in parallel simply setting the min and max destination device concurrency. When object replication is completed there is a bottleneck in the media replicated import…
- over 1 year ago
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Priority-based Execution and proper Queuing

Sebastian.Koehler

Brief description: Data Protector should have a proper queue management with the option to apply priorities to backup, restore and other sessions. As of today sessions in Queuing state may be started out of order while using a first-in first-out design…
- over 3 years ago
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Adding Mirror option on Copy Job Operation

Thangaraj Ganesan

if we could enable/add the mirror option in the Copy Operation destination tab (as like backup destination), will eliminate the requirement of taking 2nd copy to physical media with separate copy operation. Since, we have the option on AMO (automated…
- over 3 years ago
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Multi-read Access to StoreOnce Catalyst

Sebastian.Koehler

Brief description: The StoreOnce Catalyst API supports m ulti-read access to StoreOnce Catalyst objects for a while. This functionality should be integrated into Data Protector to improve performance and flexibility. Benefit: Multi-read access on…
- over 4 years ago
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Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Support for Data Protector

DevangShah

Hi All, Data Protector currently supports following cloud platforms: StoreOnce Cloudbank Amazon S3 Amazon Glacier and Deep Archiving MicroSoft Azure Cloud It would be good to have GCP supported going forward. Thanks & Best Regards Devang…
- over 4 years ago
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Environment details in sessions

Victor_F_DP

Hello all, I suggest a simple message in the backup/restore/copy session to know some details about the environment like OS of servers involved and DP version. The message can be something like this at the end of the session: [Normal] From: BSM…
- over 4 years ago
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Enable or Disable Post-Backup Object Operation

Sebastian.Koehler

Brief description: We need an easy way to Enable or Disable Post-Backup Object Operation (Copy, Replication, Consolidation and Verification) from the Data Protector GUI. The only workaround that exists today is to move the spec from the corresponding…
- over 4 years ago
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ARS breaks target protection options

Chid

We want replica objects imported into a foreign cell via ARS to have a longer protection than the original source objects. Although you can give target objects longer protection in a traditional object copy job or replication job without ARS, the target…
- over 4 years ago
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Increasing Object Operations tree control more than 64000obj. or adding search field for filtering

Teodor Enchev

Hello, As there is a limitation - 64 000 Objects/sessions in Object Operations tab, I would like to ask, is it possible this to be increased in the next release? Also there should be a good option to implement a search field/menu, which can help…
- over 4 years ago
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Enhance Software deduplication for ARS

qian

ARS only support StoreOnce Catalyst.not support Software storeonce deduplication. so hopeto support ARS with Software deduplication, like storeonce catalyst sync.
- over 5 years ago
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Object copy enhancment

Claude Urhausen

Hi In the past, I asked an ER for having the possibility to define in an Object copy to copy only the full Backups. With the new Scheduler it is, maybe, simpler for you, to take the “Schedule Name” as specification. As example, the schedule name monthly_full…
- over 5 years ago
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Restore-like GUI filter for Object Operations

Aleksandr_Sviridov

If you want to make an interactive Copy\Consolidation\Verification you're unable to filter results, result set is a list of SessionIDs. We need restore-like GUI for this operations. There should be pagination, filter by time\specification\status etc.…
- over 5 years ago
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Checkpoint Resume for Object Copy

Sebastian.Koehler

Brief description: While Object Copy in Data Protector has a Restart option this does not work well with very large objects. A object failed at 99% will need to be copied from the very beginning taking a long time. We should have a (Checkpoint) Resume…
- over 5 years ago
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reconnect broken connections for copy/replication sessions

markovdi

Reconnect options should be avaialble in copy sessions as well in order to avoid failures due to minor network interruptions.
- over 5 years ago
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Data Protector omniobjcopy without having to specify the "Object" parameters

ravil_

Request to enable Data Protector to support usage of the following syntax: omniobjcopy -session <SessionID> -targetdevice <Device> (without having to specify the "Object" parameters and where only the objects from the specified SessionID will be copied…
- over 5 years ago
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Support for Mirror Devices in Object Copy

nikhil_d

Currently device mirroring is supported only in backups. However with advancement os StoreOnce (and other disk based devices) backup to disk and then copying to tape is also very popular. One pain point however is, for the object copy, device mirroring…
- over 6 years ago
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Add the ability to restore Oracle DB from Object Copy

JJJ

Add the ability to restore Oracle DB from Object Copy. As with File System restores, add the Copies tab the the Restore context menu when performing Oracle restores, alternatively provide equivalent functionality using CLI, similar to Location Priority…
- over 6 years ago
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Object Copy reporting

DBurton30

Give the ability to create reports and/or notifications when Object Copy is run. At least have a pre/post executable ability for any Object Copy. This way you can run a script or command to gather the session information and dump to a file or email the…
- over 6 years ago
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Object copy jobs and replication feature intuitive

tor

Maybe due to carelessness or to do quickly ;-) , sometimes a backup job that needs to be included in one of these groups for object copy sessions o replication copy sessions, may not be it. This could have a high risk in coustomers. Maybe this could be…
- over 6 years ago
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Copy Session Manager should have a dynamic queue

Sebastian.Koehler

Brief description: Today, when CSM starts, it assigns objects statically to concurrency slots on target devices. While this offers good performance during the first half of an Object Copy session, with enough data streams assigned to each target device…
- over 6 years ago
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Allow to configure target device and pool with schedule

Sebastian.Koehler

Brief description: Each backup spec can only backup to a specific device and media pool. This can not be changed to accommodate requirements such as segregate Full and Incremental backups on different set of media or devices. Having multiple backup specs…
- over 6 years ago
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