Dear All,
I have an urgent query regarding product comparison. I need your assistance to kindly provide any comparison on Veeam data backup and replication vs Microsoft System Center products. Moreover also highlight the points that Microsoft product is covering all the features offered by Veeam backup and replicaiton software.
Your prompt action and quick response would be highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Hello, Running DPM 2012 R2, Protected computer Windows 2012 Standard
I'm backing up only folders (19 GB) on a Windows 2012 server which also have SCCM 2012 installed on it. The initial replica and recovery point creations are successful. Any scheduled synchronization job scheduled after will fail. The job display "In progress" but there is 0 MB data transferred and will remain in that stage for days until I cancel the job. A reboot of the protected server resolves the issue temporarily where I might get a couple days of successful synchronization\recovery points but then the job will freeze again. I have looked in the event logs and the logs in Monitoring on the DPM server and also on the protected computer but have not found any error that points to the cause. Has anyone seen this issue? Will be grateful if someone can point me in the right direction of troubleshooting this issue. Thank you.
Hi,
i try to backup my active directory Using DPM 2012 R2.Below error has occurred.
A journal wrap error has occurred on the change journal, and therefore DPM is unable to track any more changes or may have missed some changes for the data source C:\ on DC-Name.domin (ID 30117 Details: Internal error code: 0x809909D1)
I'm using DPM to backup some client machines and want some directories universally excluded. I added rules to the PG and clicked through the rest of the wizard until I could eventually update it and it seemed to work. On going back into the PG config I found that only the file type exclusions I'd entered were still there and all the rows I'd added with a Rule of Exclude had gone. I added them back in again and the same thing happened. I have all the latest updates applied and the problem is consistent and reproducible. The entries look like:
\\*\*\**\dir1\**\dir2\
What's going on here?
When running a consistency check on a very large amount of files, the checks repeatedly stops after 23-24 hours.
How do I solve this, so that I get a full consistency check and a good replica?
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I have read plenty on the new "File Server for general use" and "Continuous Availability" features present in Windows Server 2012 R2. I even built up a working lab. But I'm finding next to nothing in the way of documentation as to how to backup this data using DPM.
Since the data is stored on a clustered drive that is attached to one node or the other at any given time, it seems that your typical DPM client install isn't going to cut it. I would guess that in a 2 server cluster, one DPM client will always fail since it won't always be assigned the clustered disk. So how do we backup this data properly?
Hi,
I have following simple setup
Server1--> DPMserver2010_A<--Server2
Both server1&2 are protected by DPMserver2010_A. Now, DPMserver2010_A does not have enough space so I installed DPM2010 in another server (DPMserver2010_B).
So, now I want to move the server1&2 to DPMserver2010_B.
Server1--> DPMserver2010_B<--Server2
Server1 is DC&file server and server2 is database(MSSQL2008) server.
Hope it is clear.
I was wondering how to fix it? Any help appreciated :-)
I switched a protected workstation from a server backup to a client backup.
Now when I go to the "Recovery" tab MMC crashes. If I remove the new protection group all works fine.
I did tell it to retain the old data. This may be (Hostname) listed below in the database. The new PG created was as hostname.domainname. Even after removing the PG this entry remains in the database listed below.
I found reference to multiple duplicate names in SQL and ran:
Select ServerName, Domainname from dbo.tbl_AM_ServerThis returns the same results with the PG active and removed.
Hostname | Domainname
Hostname.domainname | DomainnameIs there a safe way to resolve this by removing the database entries?
Following scenario;
File-Server is a 2012R2 Standard box, having it's files stored on an ISCSI attached NTFS formatted drive with deduplication turned on. DFS-R is also active on the volume.
DPM is a Windows Server 2008R2 Server, with DPM 2012R2 running on it.
Most replica's are created ok, but this one fails to create an initial replica.
Is there some limitation for DPM in this scenario? Do I need to install DPM on a 2012R2 box?
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trying to use DPM 2012 R2 RU2 to backup the VM's that run on a 4 node Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V cluster. The Guests are stores on SMB 3.0 Shares on a 2 node Server 2012 R2 Scale Out File Server cluster. when I go to expand the SOFS group in DPM I get the error:
DPM was unable to protect the members in the resource group [Share Name] this resource group contains some resources that have dependencies which not present as part of this group. (ID: 199)
We are protecting a deduplicated volume of a few terabytes to a primary DPM server, and then to a secondary one. I have noticed that the secondary DPM Server has allocated and used significantly more disk for the replica volume than has the primary. Why would this be? it almost looks like the secondary has protected the data in an unoptimised state (I have checked that the dedupe role is installed on the DPM servers).
Thanks
Mark
Hi,
I have DPM running at our main office. We backup a remote office server with 1.5TB of data over a VPN connection. It was working fine until our local storage pool drives suffered physical failure. All fixed and had to recreate protection groups. Initial backup of remote server was slow, and when it finished it said it was inconsistent. I ran a consistency check and it took a really long time and got interrupted several times. Then it finally looked like it finished with no errors. I tried to create a replication point and it failed saying it was not consistent. I started the consistency check over again. This time it ran and it counted up to 2,034.12MB in the Data Transferred column. It has now been stuck at that number for 30 hours but still lists as in progress.
In looking at dpmra.exe on using process monitor the protected computer, when data was being transferred I could see file name in the logs. Now that it has stopped counting all i have seen for the last 30 hours is registry open, close and query keys. A sample from the process monitor log is below. Anyone know if this is normal, or if something is stuck, or if there is some other problem?
Thanks,
Derek
7:44:47.9280016 AMDPMRA.exe10748RegOpenKeyHKCR\CLSID\{88d96a06-f192-11d4-a65f-0040963251e5}\InprocServer32SUCCESSI am having trouble getting my file backup to run after an upgrade from DPM 2010 to DPM 2012 SP1. Due to the upgrade every single protected data source entered into consistency check, this is expected behaviour, and most of these cc has finished without problems. I have a single agent left, that constantly fails. Almost immediately after a cc is started the agent throws the following event in the application log of the client server.
Faulting application name: DPMRA.exe, version: 4.1.3313.0, time stamp: 0x50ad9909
Faulting module name: FileWriterHelperPlugin.DLL, version: 4.1.3313.0, time stamp: 0x50ad994d
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000000000062a09
Faulting process id: 0x81c
Faulting application start time: 0x01ceb8504e52f3a7
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Data Protection Manager\DPM\bin\DPMRA.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Data Protection Manager\DPM\bin\FileWriterHelperPlugin.DLL
Report Id: 2fcb217d-2444-11e3-928c-00155d0a5800
I’ve tried uninstalling/installing however this has not solved the problem.
Any help to solve this issue will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
/Claus
Hi,
unfortunately a collegue of mine enabled DeDup on a volume of a Win 2012 Protected Server.
DPM Server is running DPM 2012SP1 UR1. DeDup role is not installed.
Now we get inconsistency error Messages...
We have installed a new DPM 2012R2, UR2, running on Windows Server 2012R2, DeDup role is activated on the Server.
My solution would be:
1. Remove Protection on "old" DPM 2012 Sp1 Server for the affected PS
2. "setdpmserver.exe" on PS to new DPM 2012R2
3. Attach PS to DPM2012R2
4. Update DPM Agent on affected PS from the DPM2012R2 console to uptodate R2 Agent
(is there a reboot required?)
5. Configure PG for whole volume (dedup enabled) and start replica creation
You think this works?
Is there anything I have to take of when starting the backup of a dedup volume?
Thanks in advance
/bkpfast
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We have a protected 2012 R2 server that has Data Deduplication enabled. DPM tried to create a recovery point and ran out of disk space. When I check to see what happened, the job had transferred over 43GB of data. This is way outside of the norm for this protection group. Upon investigation I found that a scheduled weekly defrag had run. I assume this to be the source of the churn. Can anyone provide an guidance on the interaction of the these processes? The scheduled defrag was enabled by default. I assume we'll need to disable this? I have never defragged my VM's as it would cause massive churn for the VM backup's in DPM. But this was not a VM backup, just a backup of files on a deduplicated volume.
Thanks,
Scott
HI all,
sorry how DPM detect which files is changed I must copy to replika ? Or how is created replika . DPM also reguester create full backup and then use incremental backup copy-and-write method ?
thanx
Falcon
I can recover through the DPOM console this data attempting to create a PowerShell script to do the same thing.
Here is script :
$from = (Get-Date).adddays(-36500) –f "dd-MMMM-yyyy 00:01:00"
$to = Get-Date –f "dd-MMMM-yyyy HH:mm:ss"
$pg = Get-DPMProtectionGroup -DPMServerName BLANDPMS | where { $_.FriendlyName -eq "Domain Computers"}
$ds = Get-DPMDatasource $pg | where {$_.computer -eq "EVELYNNPC"}
$so = New-SearchOption -SearchString * -FromRecoveryPoint "$from" -ToRecoveryPoint "$to" -SearchDetail filesfolders -SearchType contains -Recursive -Location "C:\"
$ri = Get-DPMRecoverableItem -Datasource $ds -SearchOption $so
$ro = New-DPMRecoveryOption -TargetServer BLANDPMS -RecoveryLocation copytofolder -FileSystem -AlternateLocation "C:\Recovery\" -OverwriteType overwrite -RecoveryType Restore
restore-DPMRecoverableItem -RecoverableItem $ri -RecoveryOption $rohere is results of the script when I run :
PS C:\psscripts> .\Recovery.ps1
restore-DPMRecoverableItem : The specified recovery options are not valid. (ID: 31095)
Check the parameters that you are passing to the cmdlet and ensure that these parameters correspond to the data source
type that you are attempting to recover.
At C:\psscripts\Recovery.ps1:16 char:1
+ restore-DPMRecoverableItem -RecoverableItem $ri -RecoveryOption $ro
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Restore-DPMRecoverableItem], DlsException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvalidRecoveryOptions,Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.UI.Cmdlet.RecoveryCmdLet
s.RecoverRecoverableItem
Variables :
PS C:\psscripts> $pg
Name
ProtectionMethod
----
----------------
Domain Computers Short-term
using disk
PS C:\psscripts> $ds
Computer Name
ObjectType
-------- ----
----------
EVELYNNPC User data
Disconnected Client
PS C:\psscripts> $so
startPath : C:\users\evelynn.domain\pictures\
searchParameters : Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.UI.ObjectModel.OMCommon.SearchParameters
startTime : 10/23/1914 9:00:09 AM
endTime : 9/28/2014 9:00:17 AM
isRecursive : True
PS C:\psscripts> $ri
054.JPG 9/27/2014 1:11:52 PM EVELYNNPC.domain.com\U... Disk
055.JPG 9/27/2014 1:11:52 PM EVELYNNPC.domain.com\U... Disk
056.JPG 9/27/2014 1:11:52 PM EVELYNNPC.domain.com\U... Disk
057.JPG 9/27/2014 1:11:52 PM EVELYNNPC.domain.com\U... Disk
058.JPG 9/27/2014 1:11:52 PM EVELYNNPC.domain.com\U... Disk
059.JPG 9/27/2014 1:11:52 PM EVELYNNPC.domain.com\U... Disk
060.JPG 9/27/2014 1:11:52 PM EVELYNNPC.domain.com\U... Disk
This contains 250 items did not list all here
PS C:\psscripts> $ro
DsmProperties : Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.XsdClasses.MTA.DsmPropertiesType
AlternateLocation : C:\Recovery\
LibraryId : 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
SourceServer :
TargetServer : BLANDPMS.domain.com
RecoverToReplicaFromTape : False
IsSANRecovery : False
ReferencedRecoveryOptions :
I am doing backups to Azure each night for a file server. If I wanted to restore an entire volume from the previous backup then all I should have to do is select the volume to restore and restore.
This would be considered a full recovery to that volume, is that correct?