Hi Paul and others.
Spictera Unified Storage which includes both the application consistent snapshot and file/bucket/VTL access methods uses the IBM Storage Protect Client API.
These are all separate packages, and can be upgraded individually.
Do let me know if you want to give it a try?
Regarding support for other platforms, do let me know how big this business case is so that we can consider AIX.
As for now, we only support Windows and Linux.
File and the other access methods translates the transition directly into IBM Storage Protect Client API calls, so no local Storage is needed.
It has built in security mechanisms, such as GEO fences where information can only be accessed from approved physical locations, GEO tasged Storage where information such as files and folders structures are automatically tagged with its creators physical geographical location, and information accessed are automatically assigned to the users physical geographical location so that they can easily locate the information of need.
It has also built in ransomware protection mechanisms that fires events if there is an intrusion and rejects such events.
Of course this amoung the features that already exists within IBM Storage Protect such as data reduction, encryption, include/exclude filtering, replikation, tiering etc.
You are happy to contact me or schedule a call if you need.
tomas.dalebjork@spictera.com
Regards Tomas
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Tomas Dalebjörk
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Original Message:
Sent: Sun October 12, 2025 04:33 AM
From: Dmitry Dukhov
Subject: Finally an universal agentless backup/archive solution for Spectrum Protect
Paul, why do you need an API for SPFS? For what functions? As I see it now, SPFS is just a pipe to TSM, similar to a device.
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Dmitry Dukhov
https://www.tsmexplorer.com
Original Message:
Sent: Mon October 06, 2025 11:52 PM
From: Paul Lefter
Subject: Finally an universal agentless backup/archive solution for Spectrum Protect
Hi Tomas,
Does the IBM Storage Protect client API is built-in the SPFS code ?
Are the any plans to support AIX ?
Thx.
Paul Lefter
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Paul Lefter
Original Message:
Sent: Tue July 20, 2021 04:50 AM
From: Tomas Dalebjörk
Subject: Finally an universal agentless backup/archive solution for Spectrum Protect
Now you can protect your data in the way you want
- Agentless data protection of opensource and commercial databases such as PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, Progress OpenEdge 4GL, Sybase/SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE), SAP IQ Server, SQL Server, FirebirdSQL, MongoDB, GreenPlum and many more..
- Protecting KVM using Proxmox or native is easy
- CMS such as wordpress, joomla, drupal etc.
- Use your favorite tool that you want. Eg pg_dump, pg_probackup, etc.
Integrated backup will improve the recovery point objectives (RPO), as the transactional data can be protected immediately when it is created. For example Oracle archive logs, PostgreSQL WAL-logs, etc
"Why scheduling backups when you can have it protected immediately?"
It's easy to use.
Just mount the SPFS filesystem on the location you want, and access it as a drive letter or path on your server.
All file operations are translated directly to Spectrum Protect Client API calls, so nothing is cached locally
Eg
# mount -t spfs /backup
Manage your content centrally using policies, include/exclude rules.
Automatic failover and fallback between Spectrum Protect servers.
Versioning
Retention
Easy to browse and store data using Spectrum Protect.
For more details read : IBM - SPFS - a filesystem for Spectrum Protect
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Tomas Dalebjörk
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