Drive shrink
HiWe're planning to shrink the existing drives on some Win 2003 R2 SP2 servers to create a new drive/add capacity to another drive using a third-party tool. These servers are configured in DPM 2010. My...
View ArticleProtection error after shutting down one machine
Hie I have an unusual error . I have many Machine in Data Protection manager 2012 sp1 But when i shut down a particular machine it affects other machine as i cant add or remove them from protection...
View ArticleProtecting two node file cluster
I guess the DPM client will have to be installed on each node. However from then on I am lost. How do I configure DPM server 2012 to deal with a cluster? Do I point it to the cluster resource (ip...
View ArticleUnable to protect previously protected data on other DPM 2010 server
HelloThere are 3 servers 2 DPM 2010 servers and file servers 1A (primary dpm server) 1B (dpm server) 1C (file server)Data from server 1C was protected using 1B server, but later dpm agent from 1C...
View ArticleWhat is best option??
hello,I have dpm 2012 sp1. In my office are using shadow copy to backup the file server in a disk of 3TB. They are using only DPM for backup to tape. They told me that they are using like this because...
View ArticleHow can I prioritise DPM jobs
How can I prioritise a restore job to run before other scheduled jobs in System Centre Data Protection Manager?(FYI - DPM 2012 64 bit on Windows Server 2008 R2 Std with 16GB RAM)Thanks
View ArticleSplit a protection group in 2 jobs
Hi All, I have a Protection Group with 2 members, due folder in the same disk, because I have only a DAT72 standalon driver i would like that DPM schedule 2 jobs, one for each foder so each one...
View ArticleDPM 2012 cannot restore backups made with DPM 2010 since upgrade
Dear ExpertsI have a client who has 6 DPM 2012 servers that were upgraded from DPM 2010 and since doing the upgrade the client can no longer restore any backups that were originally done on the 2010...
View ArticleWhich Firewall ports need to be open to backup a DMZ in a workgroup using...
I have looked online without any success to the question below. Any answered would be greatly appreciated.I have a server in a DMZ. It's in a workgroup with a local admin account. However, I need to...
View ArticleSystem center 2012 sp1 recovery points failing to write
Having had system center 2012 sp1 working within our system, albeit somewhat flakily, since it came out it has developed a problem which I cannot find the answer to. I currently have 15 protection...
View ArticleMaintain DPM protection of clustered file service during migration to new...
So this seems to be something that I would expect to see some documentation on but there is nothing that I can find.We have a File Service on a server 2008R2 cluster (ClusterA) whose hardware is now...
View ArticleIs it supported to backup a file share on DPM 2012 using the server itself?
Hi,Can someone tell me if DPM 2012 is capable of backing up it's own file shares?Is there much mileage in backing up at the folder level as opposed to the file share?Thanks
View ArticleShadow copy errors backing up from server 2012
Setup:DPM Server = DPM 2012 SP1 running on Server 2008 R2. Protected Server = Server 2012 Standard.We are trying to backup 10TB+ of data from server 2012. Various file sizes from a few MB to 4TB...
View ArticleUpgrading DPM 2010 to DPM 2012 SP1 to Backup VM's located on a Windows 2008...
Hello.I have a Win 2k8R2 SP1 cluster (5 Hosts) hosting VM's on cluster shared volumes (Three seperate cluster shared volumes). I am currently using DPM 2010 to backup VM's located on that cluster. I...
View ArticleDPM 2010 End User Recovery History
Hello,We have 17 DPM 2010 servers providing End User Recovery for their Files and Departmental Shares. We are looking to collect the history of the EUR activities like:1. How many recovery performed...
View ArticleDPM 2012 Large File Server CC Advise
Hi,In relation to the (now locked) thread of http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ff9b8081-68dd-4c0f-8fd4-7b23950c4f20/consistency-check-takes-forever-on-large-volumes I would like some...
View ArticleDPM2012 - Backup file server via share or volume
Hello,I'm currently setting up DPM2012 on our network, and am investigation the best way to backup our clustered file server.Is the recommendation to backup via volume or via share?If I were to select...
View ArticleBacking up 800GB+ of small files word, excel etc.
Hello,I have greated a new fileserver where i initialy did not have much data and the size of the disk was only configured to 40GB. Now i have extend the disk to 900GB and i have copied 800GB of small...
View ArticleDPM 2010 SP1 Replica Fails On Folders That No Longer Exist on Target
We are experiencing recurring replica failures on multiple protection groups. Each time we encounter this failure, it is on a folder that no longer exists on the backup target, and the error...
View ArticleManual replica creation of DeDup Volumes
Hi,we are on the way to update a lot of our file Servers to Windows Server 2012. DeDup will be enabled on the volumes.We are going to to backup these voumes via DPM2012SP1.Now my question: Is it...
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