What to do with ‘suspect’ tapes in MS DPM 2007 and 2010?
Sometimes it happens that Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2007, 2010 and 2012 mark a tape as ‘suspect’. Normally this should happen when 2 different tapes have the same barcode… If you do know that...
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How to configure item level recovery for Sharepoint 2010 with DPM 2010
I know that there are already a couple of articles covering this issue – but since I ran into trouble with exactly this configuration issue I realized that these articles do not cover everything. For...
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How to mark a DPM tape containing active recovery points as free
When trying to mark a tape that contains active recovery points as free in Data Protection Manager you’ll receive an error like this: The selected tapes cannot be marked as free because they belong to...
View ArticleHow to get the number of volumes used by DPM 2010?
Just a quick hit that tells you how many volumes Microsoft Data Protection Manager uses. I got 848… $dpmserver = $env:computername #localhost or type your dpm server's name here $dpmdisks = get-dpmdisk...
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Strange behavior with Data Protection Manager End User Recovery feature or not?
I recently activated the End User Recovery feature of Data Protection Manager 2012. I did the schema extension – which by the way added a ms-BackupSrv-Share attribute a ms-ProductionSrv-Share attribute...
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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...
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The 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...
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DPM 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...
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Data 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...
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Error 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...
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Data 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...
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Configure 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...
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Update 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...
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Unknown 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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