Our Customers Have Made These Suggestions for Improving Catalogic DPX.
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This area is specifically for Catalogic DPX.
Move vStor Volume from one pool to another
On a single vStor Server to allow a volume to be moved from one pool to another pool, balancing or migrating between pools (Like vol move on netapp system between ...
vStor Informations on DPX Dashboard
I would like to see the Availability, Disk Use, Throughput, Access / Generate Log Files
Remote seeding Windows and Linux servers to VStor for block backup.
As a user I would like to backup my servers in a remote location to my central office, however these servers are quite large and therefore a base backup takes a very ...
Update Tape Library inventory automatically
As a user I would like have DPX automatically re-inventory my tape library when the door is opened and closed or when the tape lirbary module of DPX is restarted to ...
Agentless HyperV Support(DPM-8)
Add HyperV support for feature parity to VMWare
DPX Scheduler should allow for a maintenance window
The DPX scheduler should allow for a maintenance window to allow for SQL , exhange or windows updates etc In this window any jobs running are held or cancelled and ...
Throughput Gauge/Counter traffic
Realtime/Overall Network throughput statistics for Network (rx/tx) traffic (DPX/VStor) in new Gui Dashboard 24h/7d
Office 365 backup and restore
As a user of DPX I would like to protect my data in Office 365 and Exchange online. The reason for the protection requirement is that after 30 days the data is ...
Prevent file backup from starting if job already running
If a Differential job starts, it should check for any current jobs running from the same Job definition and cancel itself. Example: a Base job runs overtime and a ...
Agentless VMWare restore list of nodes instead of ESX Host list
If you try to restore a VM with instant VM or instant vmdk restore, you have to search the appropriate node in the list of ESX Hosts. It would be much better if there ...
Enhanced E-Mail Notifications
Currently job notifications sent via SMTP are very verbose like a job log and shown as continuous text.
The text needs to be formatted to include line breaks. ...
BMR and virtualize from archive tapes or diskdirectory
As a user I would like to be able to recover a server using full virtualization or BMR from Tape snapshots in case my primary backups have been corrupted.
vStor Snapshotlist is confused
In the snapshotlist there you can see only five entries per page! And it is not possible to filter them neither to search there for a node!
This is absolutly sensless!
Under consideration
Support for agentless VM backups for Nutanix AHV
Provide support AHV Hypervisor(Acropolis) from Nutanix
automated Sandboxing for DPX restores
Having a function to sandbox a backup and have it tested automatically for application function and virus infections
DPX Jobs should be able to run in dependency in order to make optimal of the backup window
Jobs should be able to run in dependency in order to make optimal use of the time slots. Currently it can happen that a job of a VM is finished and then nothing ...
Not planned
Add the ability to deploy a hotfix modules for multiple clients easily.(DPM-183)
As a user I would like to be able to deploy a single hotfix file or files to multiple clients easily as copying a file to multiple machines can be very cumbersome.
Under consideration
Bulk change feature
This would be a nice feature for changing settings at more than one client at the same time. For example: change notifications, proxy, file history handling,.......
Under consideration
DPX Web GUI Dashboard Top failed backups
It would be interesting to see a chart with servers with the most fault backups in the last 24h/week like the existing TOP DATA TRANSFERRED BY SERVER
DPX restore VM (iV or full) with exact same vmdk name as the original
When restoring a virtual machine would it be possible to honor the original VMDK names that its easy to know what VDML belongs to which VM ?
Ability to flag certain job definitions as business critical.
As I user, I would like to able to set certain job definitions as critical so that these take priority over other jobs and also always display on the top in the job ...
Backup VMs based on VMware Tags
use (tag)# function from vCenter to get a better overview.
see directly properties of Backup Jobs like
#Backup,rt30(retentiontime),daily,8:00pm,container … ...
Under consideration
Add a monthly report for total TB backed up in one month
I would like to see a report that shows the total TB protected in one month, with total jobs, total failures, and total successes.
Under consideration
Sending Logfiles directly from GUI
Send Logfiles directly from GUI using content Menu or Right Klick on Job. Dialog Add to Case ID or create new.
Under consideration
Dependencies and evenly distribution of backupjobs
Sometimes it is neccessary that job1 has finished before job 2 starts. Or sometimes there are running 10 jobs at the same time and then there is running no job for at ...
Active Directory item Recovery
Possibility to browse and restore (single or groups) Active Directory Objects and Items.
Ability to exclude VMDK from Agentless backups
The ability to exclude a VMDK from VMware Agentless Backups is an important feature for us, especially in a fully virtualized environment. Many times, for example, we ...
Under consideration
Support Multi-factor authentication in DPX
Two-factor authentication adds an additional layer of security to the authentication process by making it harder for attackers to gain access to a DPX environment, ...
Under consideration
Archiv to Tape bulk job
With ndmp tape backup I have the possibility to backup a few servers latest snapjob for agent based backups. This is missing in the archive to media wizard. In a ...
Under consideration
Archive to media naming convention is incomprehensible.
If you are using archive to media it is absolutly to much effort to understand the naming convention and find the appropriate tape to a job.
In the Library you can ...
Under consideration
Priority settings between backup and restore
In most cases restores are more urgent than backups! So it would be a nice feature if I am able to fasten up a restore and slow down running backups.
Size up DPX Web GUI "Schedule Overview" window to full size
Why is the schedule overview window limited to half size. So you can see only 12 jobs without scrolling the window. The rest of the screen is unused and only grey. ...
Under consideration
SAP Hana database protection using DPX(DPM-42)
As a user I would like to be able to protect and recover SAP HANA 2.0 Databases with DPX file/block level technology. At one point we supported SAP S3, but never ...
FreeBSD Client and Device server support (DPM-88)
Support FreeBSD 12 and newer as DPX client for file-level backup and tape library device server support.
Done
Protect and recover data on vSan file shares
User Story
As a user I would like to backup and recover directly to vSan Shares as all my user data is locate on this share.
Acceptance Criteria
Add ...
Under consideration
Migrate Archived job instances to new Media
As a user I would like to be able migrate archived job instances to new tapes as I have LTO8 tapes and my archive data is on LTO5 and would like to move the data to LTO8.
Under consideration
Protect VMWare VDI infrastructure Templates Backup without CBT
There are some kind of template VMs. For example in VM Ware VDI infrastructure Templates with „Instant Clones“ they doesn’t work with CBT Turned on. Because they are ...
Under consideration
DPX Policy for agent based backup
In vCenter I can use the dpx policy for backing up agentless server. It would be a nice feature for agent based backup too.
Under consideration
Protect vStor replication snapshots against ransomware.
As a user I would like to protect a vStor replication snapshot/relationship from being removed automatically when the snapshot expires so that the data in the ...
Archive to media Backups not configurable as "bulk job"
At NDMP Backup I have the possibility to ad a lot of server to one job, for example monthly backup. At Archive to media I have to configure it for each server. This ...
Under consideration
Add Support for S3 Object Lock
Add Support for AWS and MINIO S3 to use these storage services as an (LTO) Tape replacement.
As more an more customers don't like tape-librarys they want to use ...
change the view of NDMP restore mode
change the view of the NDMP restore window to the same as filebased restores.
searching for single files and folders in NDMP restore mode is quite disturbing if your ...
Suggested by:
Markus @ Bitnet EDV GmbH / Atecto GmbH
(15 Sep, '20)
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Upvoted: 14 Apr, '21
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Comments: 0
Under consideration
Allow searching knowledge base directly from job logs view in DPX UI.
To enhance usability and the end user experience with DPX message codes in job logs should be hyperlinked to KB articles for each message code to allow end users to ...
File level backup to Cloud ( AWS S3 API)
I would like to do file level backup to cloud (To Amazon)
Job Monitor - Improve Time Filtering Options
On the job monitor allow have a dropdown to filter jobs in last 6, 12, 18 and 24 hours rather than just showing 24 hours and having to alter the advanced filters > ...
Planned
DPX Audit log required
When dpx admin do something example delete job or create job or some change there is no audit log.
we cant see anything in the logs
Not planned
Add threshold to Differential jobs
Add threshold to Differential jobs, so that when a configurable limit has been reached it automatically triggers a Base backup. This could remove the need to ...
Mark that the job filter is set
For example: at Register "Catalog" - "Job Functions" there you can set a filter. It would be a little, but nice feature if there where a little mark that a filter was ...
Under consideration
Updating the agent without stopping the masterserver
It must be possible to update agents without stopping the whole Masterserver. If the Agent doesn`t runs a backup it must be possible to update the Agent Independent ...
Under consideration
BTRFS file system support (DPM-69)
SLES 12 Sp4 and beyond has BTRFS as the default file system for installation, in order to support SLES fully can you please add BTRFS support