I am hoping someone can give me their technical opinion on what they thing my best options are for the following situation.
I am using DPM 2010, ver:3077070 on Server R2SP1 64. I am backing up a main file server I will call FS1. On this server there are are four network drives. H, K, S and P.
H = 800GB, K = 20GB, S = 1.7TB and P = 2.0+TB. I have 3 PG's for this server. First is for the H and K, second for S and last for P. For the last couple of weeks we have been setting up this file servers replacement, including a new SAN for it's storage. For the most part everything will remain the same except IP and the P drive. The P drive will now be separated into different drives using mount points.
My plan on the day of cutover was to remove the protection agent from FS1. This would then make my PG's inactive. Once the new server was live and renamed to FS1 I would install the agent and recreate all the PG's. My hope is that DPM will use the existing replicas for all of the existing data. I am pretty sure though I will have to recreate the P drive replica due to the mount points.
I am wondering if it might just be better to NOT uninstall the agent on the old FS1, thus not making the replicas inactive, and then only pointing the new FS1 agent to DPM and DPM back to the new FS1. (Confused yet).
Does anyone have any thoughts on how they might tackle this new setup, while trying to salvage existing replicas and pointing them to a new server...
Basically, am I taking the right approach? Will DPM pick up the old replicas or will it try to create new ones for all the drives? Could i just leave the agent on the old server, which would leave the replicas active and when the old is shut down and new brought up just run set DPM server and attach-production server?
Thanks
