How to get a list of all tapes a System Center DPM Server knows about?
I have a long list of DPM tapes – a very long list… and most of them are offline. But how would you know what data is stored on what tape? Jeff Wouters wrote a blogpost about it at...
View ArticleThe way through Data Protection Manager 2012 SP1 upgrade
Yesterday I installed SP1 on my DPM 2012 server – see the screenshots below. The setup itself was ok, but the problems began when updating the protection agents on Windows Server 2012 systems. Welcome...
View ArticleNo support for LTO6 tape drives yet – HP revises firmware for tape libraries...
In December HP released firmware upgrades to all its major tape libraries and autoloaders to support the new LTO 6 generation drives. Today I received a brand new HP StoreEver MSL LTO-6 Ultrium 6250...
View ArticleDPM 2012 SP1: Protection Agent cannot be installed
When trying to manually install a Microsoft System Center 2012 SP1 Data Protection Manager Agent you may receive this error: Protection Agent cannot be installed on machine where DPM is installed This...
View ArticleData Protection Manager 2012 Setup: Error 4309 while installing SQL Server...
I just needed to do a fresh installation of Microsoft System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager SP1 on a fresh Windows Server 2012. I went throug all steps of the installation wizard, installed all...
View ArticleError in Data Protection Manager 2012 after installation of Update Rollup 3...
On July, 23 2013 Microsoft released Update Rollup 3 for System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 containing Data Protection Manager version 4.1.3415.0. After the installation of this update rollup on DPM 2012...
View ArticleData Protection Manager Database Backup fails with Invalid Command
From time to time you need to backup your DPM Database manually. I used to simply run the command DpmBackup.exe -db But when I tried now I only got the error Error: Invalid command -db. There are a lot...
View ArticleConfigure Data Protection Manager 2016 AntiVirus Exclusions on Windows Server...
When using an AntiVirus product on your Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2016 server you have to configure it appropriately. What does that mean? Technet says: Disable real-time...
View ArticleUpdate System Center Data Protection Manager 2016 to 1801
In February the first System Center Semi-Annual Channel (SAC) release has been published and now I got the time to install it. So the most recent DPM Version is not 2016 UR4 anymore but 1801. How to...
View ArticleUnknown error (0x80041024) in Data Protection Manager when taking a Hyper-V...
While migrating all Hyper-V virtual machines from an old cluster environment to a new hyper converged system environment I noticed that one of the unix based virtual machines couldn’t be backed up...
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