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Videos about new features in IBM Spectrum Protect products

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Abstract

For information about new features in the IBM Spectrum Protect product family, view the following videos. The videos provide detailed information about features and demonstrate their use.

Content

Tip: For videos that provide overviews of product releases, see technote 5694507.
IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.17, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.13, and related products
 Individual videos on YouTube: 

IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.16, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.12, and IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management 2.2.17
 Individual videos on YouTube: 

Full playlist on YouTube

IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.15 and IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.11
 Playlist on YouTube

IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.14 and IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.10
Playlist on YouTube

IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.13 and IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.9

Description and link to YouTube Embedded video

Replicating data to multiple target servers (multi-target replication)

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect

See also the related video about configuring multi-target replication in the IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EGmtn6E12M

Copying retention sets to cloud object storage

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect

See also the following related videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DuwIkaHaKU

Backing up Kubernetes or OpenShift snapshots to cloud object storage

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Backing up, retrieving, restoring, and archiving data with the IBM Spectrum Protect Backup-Archive Client

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect

Technology preview: Enabling IBM Spectrum Protect Plus workloads to be sent directly to IBM Spectrum Protect Plus by using the Open Snap Store Manager (OSSM) common data repository

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect,
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect HSM for Windows

IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.12 and IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.8

Description and link to YouTube Embedded video

Helping to optimize cloud restore operations by enabling a read cache

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect

Including Microsoft® SQL Server and Microsoft Exchange Server data in retention sets

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect

Viewing tasks for all servers in a centralized location

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect

Deleting a node from a retention set

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect

Using the Operations Center to check in and check out tape volumes

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect

Using the enhanced compression option for LZ4

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect backup-archive client

IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.11 and IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.7

Description and link to YouTube Embedded video

Copying data from container storage pools to tape for disaster recovery

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect

See also the demo about setting up this feature by using the command line:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B7UeGnpLgg&feature=youtu.be

Backing up client data and the server database to Google Cloud Storage

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect

See also this demo about setting up the feature by using the command line:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4qvu2zSVHQ&feature=youtu.be

Adding members to retention rules based on node groups, client name patterns, and filespace name patterns

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect

Copying data from various S3 client applications to IBM Spectrum Protect

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect

Using the Operations Center for disaster recovery manager (DRM) tape volume management

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect

Viewing information about tape volumes and device paths

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect

Using Container Backup Support to protect data of persistent volumes, namespace-scoped resources, and cluster-scoped resources in a Kubernetes or Red Hat OpenShift environment

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

See also this related demo about backing up and restoring container resources by using the command line:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfyP1xYdgD0&feature=youtu.be

Deploying IBM Spectrum Protect Plus as a container on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

See also this related demo for a Kubernetes environment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h02xN87fFvE&feature=youtu.be

Taking advantage of new features for backing up Microsoft Windows file systems

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Using the new pre-check utility, which validates the Linux® mount proxy’s environment for Hyper-V file restore operations

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

Using the new web client

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect HSM for Windows

See also this demo about setting up the web client:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ygXamVKFyM&feature=youtu.be

IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.10 and IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.6

Description and link to YouTube Embedded video

Enabling protection of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) snapshots when you deploy IBM Spectrum Protect Plus by using Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Protecting data in Kubernetes containers by using the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus user interface or the Kubernetes command line

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Copying retention set data to tape storage for air-gapped, cost effective storage

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect

Backing up and restoring Microsoft Windows file systems by using IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Exploring the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus REST API Reference information

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Creating custom reports for retention sets

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect

Managing the movement of retention set tape volumes

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect

Monitoring IBM Spectrum Protect Plus from the Operations Center

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, IBM Spectrum Protect

Viewing the status of backup operations in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Using Microsoft Azure cloud storage to back up and restore IBM Db2 databases

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect

Using Simple Storage Service (S3) cloud storage to back up and restore Db2 databases

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect

IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.9 and IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.5

Description and link to YouTube Embedded video

Defining holds on retention sets to preserve data in a retention set indefinitely

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect

Command approval

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect

Configuring an object agent on IBM AIX to copy data 
from IBM Spectrum Protect Plus to IBM Spectrum Protect

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, IBM Spectrum Protect

Configuring data protection for Microsoft Office 365

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Backup and restore operations for Office 365

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Container backup, recovery, and retention for Kubernetes

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Displaying system monitoring data
by using the IBM Spectrum Protect HSM for Windows REST API to prevent file systems from running out of space

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect HSM for Windows

IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.8 and IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.4 and 10.1.3.1

Description and link to YouTube Embedded video

Tiering data to tape

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect

Sending data to an Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
Intelligent-Tiering storage class


Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect and various IBM Spectrum Protect clients

Offloading data from IBM Spectrum Protect Plus to tape

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, IBM Spectrum Protect

Archiving data from IBM Spectrum Protect Plus
to IBM Spectrum Protect tape storage

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, IBM Spectrum Protect

Usability improvements in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Multiserver support for VMware

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

Deploying an IBM Spectrum Protect Plus vSnap server
to an existing virtual private cloud on Amazon Web Services

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Deploying an IBM Spectrum Protect Plus vSnap server
to Amazon Web Services without an existing virtual private cloud

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.7 and IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.3

Description and link to YouTube Embedded video

Creating retention sets for long-term data retention

Affected components or products:

IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center and backup-archive client,
IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

Configuring data offload operations from IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 
to IBM Spectrum Protect

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, IBM Spectrum Protect

Offloading data from IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 
to IBM Spectrum Protect

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, IBM Spectrum Protect

Using the new servermon component to troubleshoot issues

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect

Backing up MongoDB databases to IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Optimizing offload operations to cloud object storage,
including IBM Cloud Object Storage, Amazon Simple Storage
Service (S3), and Microsoft Azure

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.6 and IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.2

Description and link to YouTube Embedded video

New features for automatically tiering data 
to cloud storage

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect server and Operations Center

IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.5 and IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.1

Description and link to YouTube Embedded video

Get security notifications for potential ransomware attacks

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center

IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.4

Description and link to YouTube Embedded video

Generating email reports without using SQL queries

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center

IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.3

Description and link to YouTube Embedded video

Automatic client updates (demonstration)
 

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect server, Operations Center,
backup-archive clients

Cloud tiering (demonstration)

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect server and Operations Center

IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.2

Description and link to YouTube Embedded video

Security updates: How certificates are distributed automatically
and how you can distribute them manually


Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect server and Operations Center

Security updates: Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 protocol
used by default for communications

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect server, Operations Center,
clients, storage agents

Security primer: Concepts underlying the security updates
that were introduced in V8.1.2

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect server, Operations Center, clients

Using the Operations Center to set up storage
on the Microsoft Azure cloud object storage system

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center

IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.1

Description and link to YouTube Embedded video

Encryption options as of IBM Spectrum Protect V8.1.1
 

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect server, backup-archive client

Backing up data by using IBM Cloud Object Storage with the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) API

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center

IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.0

Description and link to YouTube Embedded video

Streamlined process for using a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
server to authenticate clients

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center

Using IBM Spectrum Protect with IBM Cloud Object Storage
in the SoftLayer Public Cloud


Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect server and Operations Center,
IBM Cloud Object Storage

Tip: SoftLayer is now IBM Cloud.

IBM Spectrum Protect 7.1.7

Description and link to YouTube Embedded video

Integrating IBM Cloud Object Storage 
with IBM Spectrum Protect

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect server,
IBM Cloud Object Storage

Setting up local storage for data that is later moved
to the cloud to enhance the performance
of backup operations


Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center

Simplifying the process of authenticating user IDs
to an Active Directory database on an
LDAP server

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect server and Operations Center

Copying data in directory-container storage pools to tape

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center

Configuring cloud-container storage pools
to use Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center

IBM Spectrum Protect 7.1.6

Description and link to YouTube Embedded video

Optimizing data transfer by using Aspera FASP technology

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center

Comparison of using Aspera FASP versus TCPIP 
for data transfer

(short version, 3:19 minutes)

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect server,
IBM Spectrum Protect High Speed Data Transfer

Comparison of using Aspera FASP versus TCPIP 
for data transfer

(longer version, 19:34 minutes)

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect server and Operations Center,
IBM Spectrum Protect High Speed Data Transfer

Manage tape libraries by using the Operations Center

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center

Move data to a directory-container storage pool

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center

Configure a solution by using the IBM Spectrum Protect Blueprints
Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect server

Parallel offload of snapshot-based backups
to an IBM Spectrum Protect server, Part 1


Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for VMware,
IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments:
Data Protection for VMware

Parallel offload of snapshot-based backups
to an IBM Spectrum Protect server, Part 2


Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for VMware,
IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments:
Data Protection for VMware

Parallel offload of snapshot-based backups
to an IBM Spectrum Protect server, Part 3


Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for VMware,
IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments:
Data Protection for VMware

Parallel offload of snapshot-based backups
to an IBM Spectrum Protect server, Part 4


Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for VMware,
IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments:
Data Protection for VMware

IBM Spectrum Protect 7.1.4

Description and link to YouTube Embedded video


Generating reports by using the Operations Center

Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center


Viewing the status of network-attached storage (NAS)
file servers by using the Operations Center


Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center


Preparing for and recovering from a disaster
by using Scale Out Backup and Recovery (SOBAR)


Affected components or products:
IBM Spectrum Protect server,
IBM Spectrum Protect for Space Management,
IBM Spectrum Scale

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Document Information

Modified date:
16 March 2023

UID

ibm15695179