Questions tagged [scdpm]
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager
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Active Directory disaster recovery with DPM
I have a sort of catch-22 question here.
Suppose I'm using Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (2010 or 2012, it works the same way) to backup, amongst various other things, my Active ...
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Why is not DPM 2012 treating my tapes as free even if they should be?
I have a DPM 2012 server (but I've heard the same behaviour happens with DPM 2010) I'm using to backup my environment; it's connected to a single tape drive (no library), so tape rotation is manual.
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DPM server 2010 Attach agent error : administrator privileges missing?
I’m hoping you would be able to help me out with this little problem I’m having.
I installed DPM 2010 in our test environment to test backups on Exchange 2010 servers.
The environment includes :
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Azure Backup Server error: ID 4501
I'm trying to set up a backup Windows VMs to Azure using Azure Backup. I have successfully installed Azure Backup Server to Windows Server 2016 VM and configure VMware vSphere VMs backup using the ...
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Is continuous backup workable for shared flat-file databases?
I'm talking about a dataset containing hundreds of DBF-format data files in a shared location, some or all of which may be open or locked by multiple network users, and Microsoft's Data Protection ...
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Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager
Ok,
We are ready to deploy our first Hyper-V server with 3 VMs. Just wanted to get other peoples thoughts on Microsoft SCVMM. Do we really need it with only 1 host server? It seems like a good option ...
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Change dead disk in DPM 2010
I was backuping data on an 1Gb hard drive with DPM 2010.
This disk died but I replace it with another 1Gb hard drive.
But I don't find how to recreate data structure on this new drive from previous ...
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Storage recommendations for DPM 2016
I am looking for deploying DPM 2016 and want to use StarWind VTL for tape backups like described in this blog:
The problem is that I do not know what storage would be best for DPM 2016.
My backup ...
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DPM 2010 has allocated 100% of our storage pool. What are our options?
Data Protection Manager 2010 has allocated 100% of our storage pool. We currently have all our protection groups set to 'automatically grow the volumes' [checkbox].
As we were trying to add a ...
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DPM 2010 iSCSI Mirror
We're using DPM 2010 for exchange backups,
The backup Disk(s) are iSCSI attached drives from multiple NAS boxes.
We'd like to mirror iqn.2009-07.com.example.example:RAID.iscsi4.vg0.iscsi05 onto iqn....
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DPM Bare Metal Restore
We currently use Microsoft's Data Protection Manager (DPM) for backups in a relatively small environment, but I'm still worried about our main active directory server.
I've been thinking that it'd be ...
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iSCSI devices added to storage server during DPM 2012 SPI backups
We have a Windows Server 2012 Failover cluster running a number of virtual machines. Storage for the cluster is provided by a Windows Storage Server 2012 instance and mapped to the nodes via iSCSI. In ...
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Virtual Tape Libraries for Microsoft Data Protection Manager - Replacement for Crystalink Firestreamer?
What VTLs do you all use to allow DPM to store off-site?
My current environment uses Microsoft DPM for all of its backups. DPM stores the backups locally just fine, but to get it to store digital ...
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Backup SQL Azure database from the Cloud to on-premises (DPM?)
We currently backup our SQL databases in our data centre using Microsoft DPM.
We are now putting some databases into SQL Azure ( SQL Azure Database ).
How can we backup a database from the could to ...
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What is the disk fault tolerance in Data Protection Manager 2012
I've installed System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 SP1, created a Storage Pool assigning five hard disks.
What would happen if one of those drive suddenly crash and become totally useless?
Is ...
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DPM won't synch due to a non-existent file
DPM 2007
Server with issue is Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition
DPM is reporting that "DPM encountered an error while performing an operation for C:\program files\vexira antivirus\server\...
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Set up DPM to use hardware VSS Provider with EMC Clariion SAN
We recently purchased an EMC Clariion AX4 SAN and we're using it to provide storage for our Hyper-V virtual machines. I've already got the servers registered with it and configured the failover ...
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SC DPM detailed backup reporting
We are currently using DPM 2019 to backup our servers on prem. Our weekly full backups go to tape and our daily incremental backups go to the disc pool. We are discussing doing online backups to Azure....
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Microsoft DPM, What are the Type Values in the Alert Table (SQL Backend)
Currently I have a PowerShell script which hooks into the SQL Backend of DPM and queries the list of unresolved alerts.
In the table tbl_AHP_Alerts There is a field called Type.
This Type Field ...
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MS DPM - Slow performance of consistency check
I have a fileserver with an 8TB volume for which MS DPM is doing a consistency check, its now running 16 hours and it is probably less than 30% through the volume. Why is that so slow? My MS SQL ...
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SharePoint - Do DPM and SQL backups affect each other?
I am trying to clear up an ugly maintenance plan on SharePoint databases that happen to also be backed up by Data Protection Manager (which is setup to take snapshots at 15-minute intervals). The ...
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Data Protection Manager Offsite Backup
Our current backup scheme is to backup all of our servers to a NAS device, and swap it out with another one occasionally. Of course, this is no fun to manage, so we've been evaluating Microsoft's DPM....
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Puzzling issue with Hyper-V backup (volume shadow copy) integration and DPM 2019
I have a Microsoft DPM 2019 server that's been backing up various Windows Hyper-V VMs without issue until recently. No apparent changes have been made, but now a particular VM is failing its backup ...
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Why is Get-DPMDatasource not recognised in Powershell? (Using DPM Module)
I am using
Import-Module DataProtectionManager
To have access to DPM cmdlets in powershell. (DPM Version 2012R2)
Unfortunately, Get-DPMDatasource is stating it is an unrecognised cmdlet.
Without ...
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DPM 2012 cannot create offsite backup of Exchange 2010
I am using System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager installed on a Windows Server 2012.
I use the Azure DPM agent to upload offsite backups to Azure.
I have an issue with Exchange 2010 (running in ...
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How to auto mark tape as free in DPM 2012?
I have a backup server running System Center Data Protection Manager 2012, connected to a couple of tape drives (no library). I also have, of course, some tapes. Tape rotation is manual.
The tape ...
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Slow backup of data from file servers with System Center Data Protection Manager 2019
I have a virtual file server cluster of 2 VMs, where each VM is running with Windows Server 2019 (8 GB RAM, 8 vCPUs). The file servers store their data on a VHD set, which is formatted with NTFS and ...
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Protect new VHDX in VM with Microsoft DPM
I have a MS DPM 2012 R2 (Update 3) environment set up, backing up a Hyper-V 2012 R2 virtual machine from a 2-node cluster.
There are about 90 recovery points for this Hyper-V VM already.
I have now ...
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Unable To Remove DPM Agent
I have installed the DPM 2010 Agent on a Windows Server 2003 that act as a Secondary AD. Since it was demoted, I'm unable to get DPM to work.
According to this :
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/...
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Use Microsoft DPM 2010 with Azure or Amazon S3?
Does anyone know of any software that hooks up with Microsoft's DPM 2010 or even the new 2012 to ship data to cloud storage providers like Azure or S3?
We utilize D2D backups today but want a more ...
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Can DPM 2007 back up virtualized Domain Controllers?
I'm reading this article on caveats and best-practices for running DCs in VMs. It states that the only way to back up a virtualized DC would be to use Windows Server Backup on the guest, due to ...
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How to repeat failed tape backup attempt in DPM 2007?
How do you repeat a scheduled backup of a protection group if the first backup attempt failed (e.g. if there were no tapes in the library, or if there was an intermittent failure in the library or ...
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Backup Linux server onto windows server or DPM server/owner and rights in NTFS?
We are using a rsync based backup for our Lonux servers which is fantastic. We rsync all our Linux server onto our large Linux base samba fileserver. Unfortunately that server is completely outdated ...
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Hyper-V virtual machine recovery checkpoint problems
One of my virtual machines, backed up by DPM, is repeatedly creating recovery checkpoints and exponentially increasing the storage space required on the host.
Three servers involved:
Server 2012 R2, ...
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2012 R2 DPM: massive increase in data transferred during syncronisation of a Deduplicated protected volume
I have been using 2012 R2 DPM to protect a 46 TB 2012 R2 deduplicated volume for the past 4 months without too much issue. The volume is a low access archive server. Current usage on the volume is 23 ...
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Is it possible to use Microsoft Data Protection Manager without clients being registered in DNS?
TL;DR -- Is there any way to get Microsoft DPM 2012 R2 back up domain clients that don't exist in DNS?
We've got a (maybe) unique setup where our domain clients pull IPs from a DHCP that assigns them ...
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DPM 2010 inconsistent replica all the time
We are having problems to backup a Windows 2003 server using DPM 2010. We are backup about 40GB data but the replica will just use 90MB. it always reports the replica is inconsistent.
The latest ...
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Excluding a SQL File Group from DPM Backup
I have numerous SQL 2012 databases that are being backed up by Microsoft's Data Protection manager (DPM) 2012. However, in each of these databases there is a specific file group that contains a large ...
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Restore more than 250 files using DPM 2010 and PowerShell
I've got what should be a fairly simple task: restore the following files from DPM:
D:\inetpub\wwwroot\*\index.*
I followed the instructions in this TechNet wiki and pretty much thought I had it.
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DPM 2010 RC Mailbox Recovery Fails
I am testing DPM 2010 with Exchange 2010. I am attempting to restore a single mailbox from a previous backup to a Recovery Database. I created and mounting the Recovery Database on the Exchange 2010 ...
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Can't delete server from DPM console
I made a mistake installing a DPM agent on one of my servers. I installed it as if it were on an untrusted domain, using the -isNonDomainServer option. This succeeded, even though the server was the ...
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MOSS 2007 recovery using Data Protection Manager
I'm trying to recover a part of SharePoint document library to a network folder. Sharepoint server already has a DPM agent and everything is backed up regularly. When I start recovery wizard in DPM,in ...
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Is it possible to backup an SQL Database hosted on an Azure VM, to our internal DPM2012?
I've got an SQL database on an azure VM (non domain) that i'd like to backup to our internal DPM 2012 server.
I've installed the DPM agent on the Azure VM, setup DCOM to use only the ports 5000 to ...
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DPM 2010 - Performance when backing up Hyper-V Cluster
At my company we are backing up about 150 Hyper-v VMs in an Hyper-v cluster using CSVs (Windows 2008 R2).
The space used by these VMs is about 18TB on SAN storage and 1GB network.
We are using DPM ...
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Setup/Guidance/Troubleshooting DPM 2010 Bare Metal Backups
Having difficulties setting up Bare Metal recovery in DPM 2010.
Does anyone know of a good guide/walkthrough to talk me through a basic setup? I have tried most of the DPM knowledge base without ...
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Can DPM 2007 back up Active Directory?
We're installing Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2007 - we'll be using it to back up Exchange and SQL Server among other things.
Does anyone know if DPM can also back up Active Directory?
It ...
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Windows server on bare metal vs hyper-v regarding DPM 2010
Planning how to set up a newly purchased server. It is to be placed in my DMZ, hosting webapps only requiring a simple software stack of Java, Tomcat servlet container, and PostgreSQL database on top ...
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DPM 2012 virtual server stuck backing up
I have a DPM 2012 server which has a virtual server stuck 'Backing up' and cannot be started. As the virtual server lives on a host with a number of other virtual servers the only way we have fixed ...
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DPM 2012 - recovering files - How?
Having installed DPM 2012 and created a protection group with a server and selecting a folder on that server when I come to do a recovery it seems I have to recover the whole folder.
Am i missing ...
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DPM 2010 End User Recovery Failing
I have DPM2010 installed and I am using End User Recovery. I did not initially set it up. It is working for a few folders and on the DPM server in Share and Storage Manager I can see the shares in ...
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