Does Consistency Check obey "exclude" rules in protection group?

I have Windows 2003, R2 server running Vmware Server (free version)...I know, I know...please refrain from the comments. The guests are NT4 & 2000. All other servers are Hyper-v core w/plenty of guests on a SAN. When DPM 2007 runs a consistency check on the 2003 box, it becomes totally unresponsive & we have to kill the check. (1) Does the consistency check obey the "excludes" defined in protection group or does it check the entire disk/volume? (2) Any other excludes that should be defined besides the virtual machines and vmware server executables? In short, besides the

Unable Force Tapes Free

I posted this earlier looking for some help. I am updating my request for help. http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.dataprotectionmanager&tid=e20cf4d0-6b3b-4375-833c-2fadbbf233e4&cat=en_US_c18d9b67-8a4f-493f-99fa-246042fd5824&lang=en&cr=US&sloc=&p=1 After migrating to a newer DPM server, I cannot reuse any of my tapes. When I run the force tape free script, I get the following error message after it expires the data on the tape: PS C:\users\Administrator\Desktop> .\ForceTapeFree.ps1 DPM server name: : dpmsrv02 Library name: :

DPM Configuration with SQL Replicated Servers

Is there any documentation about backup and restoring SQL servers that are replicated? TIA Irvin

Install DPM2007 on Domain Controller

Hello, I have a doubt about installation of DPM2007. I need to install it on a Server that is a Domain Controller, because this server has the Tape Device. On my researches I found an article with FAQ of DPM2007 that was saying that the DPM server must be a dedicated, single-purpose server, the server cannot be either a domain controller or an application server and the server cannot be the Management Server for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager. I wanna know if its not recommended to install it on a Domain Controller, or its installation will not event start if d

DPM 2010 Hyper-V Backup ini Saved State only option

Using DPM 2010 backing up a file server we only have the option to backup the Hyper-V in a saved State. According to the following conditions that must be met to allow online backup. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd637102.aspx The one issue I am confused about and we also have implemented is, "A ShadowStorage assignment of a volume inside the VM is explicitly set to a different volume other than itself." Our shadow copy is configured to use a seperate volume. This was done following Microsoft recomendations for best performance and reliability. See below.

Problems with .pst and some more questions

Hi, We arte testing DPM2010RC right now. It will most likely replace our current Backup System. I Have a few questions and hope that someone can give me a quick answer. We are backing up mostly Fileservers right now. At an hourly Sync there is an average Data volume of 0 – 150 MB of changes per Server. That is the great advantage of VSS Snapshots I think :-) Unfortunately some Users have .pst Files in there User directory (network share). Some of them Uses an .pst File to reduce their Exchange Mailbox and Archive there Mails. They have there .pst File Active in Outlook a

DPM2007 exchange consistency check failing

Currently getting this errors message for one storage group: Data consistency verification check failed for LOGS of Storage group MF-Z Storage Group on s1asmMBX.s1asmMBXCCR.asmhq.local. (ID 30146 Details: Unknown error (0xfffffdf0) (0xFFFFFDF0)) We are able to protect other storage groups from this cluster without any issues. Currently running DPM2007 SP1 and Exchange 2007 SP2.

DPM 2010 powershell script to restore Hyper-V VM to another locati

I want to create a scheduled task that will restore the lastest hyper-v recovery point to another location. Any help welcome Thanks

DPM C:\ drive full during backup, backup fails

During the backup of our Exchange server (and other servers in that respect), the C:\drive is running out of disk space and the backup fails. Looking at details of the failed replica gives: C:\Program Files\Microsoft DPM\DPM\Volumes\Replica\File System\vol_dc7aadf7-ee15-490e-b936-5eb09e838ecb\1c91cfd6-7539-487b-8c63-8e54340ea3a0\Full\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\Mailbox\address In SCOM I get a Logical Disk Free Space is Low (0%) and when the backup is failed, I have 40GB of free space. What can I do to tell DPM NOT to clog up my C-drive? Thanks!

DPM 2007 Metadata Enumeration Issues

I'm attempting to backup a MOSS 2007 farm with DPM 2007 SP1. More often than not it works great, but more often than I'd like it "succeeds" with the following errors which leaves me unable to do item-level restores. Affected area: Sharepoint Farm\simcspdb\SharePoint_Config Occurred since: 3/4/2010 11:11:41 PM Description: DPM failed to obtain catalog information as part of the backup for SharePoint Farm Sharepoint Farm\simcspdb\SharePoint_Config on simcspwf.sawdustmgmt.local. Your recovery point is valid, but you will be unable to perform item-level recoveries using this recove

DPM 2007 on Server 2008 R2 64bit

I have just reinstalled a DPM server, upgrading the OS to Server 2008 R2 64 Bit. I have applied the recent patches KB961502(x64) When I connect to a File share cluster we have on Server 2003 I do not get a list of the shared volumes. I have updated the Agents, I have rebooted the DPM and the File Servers. Still not resolution. What do I need to do to fix this.

Removing Tapes from protection in DPM 2007

Hello, I am having problems with creating new back-ups because DPM says it has no free tapes available. There is 1 tape loaded in the library which has an inconsistent protection period. Our protections are set to 3 months maximum, however this certain tape has 1 year of protection. I want to be able to format the tape and mark it as free to be able to write a new back-up to this tape, but DPM keeps telling me the tape still belongs to the protection group and i cant find were to remove it anywere. Please assist.

DPM 2007 SP1: Modifying the protection group stops all jobs

Hi, the defaults for disk allocation of the SQL Server Protections are fare too small. If I how ever change these defaults while the jobs are running this stops current jobs. Is there a workaround? Thanks Adrian -- Adrian Miller

DPM 2010 easy questions

We have new 2008 x64 R2 server acting as Hyper-V Host, 2 VMs both which are also 2008 64 R2. We need a backup strategy and find ourselves focusing on DPM 2010 which we've never used before. We like DPM 2010 because it's seems to be tuned for Hyper-V and just plain easier then the 3rd-party options In order of importance: Q1: I gather we should NOT install DPM directly on the Hyper-V host and instead use another server entirely, ie. a dedicated backup server hardware device. Q2: When is DPM RTM going to be ready? Should we wait or should we go for 2010 RC, and if w

DPM SRT: VSSEvent cannot be started. [0x80029c4a]

Hi! I'm having trouble with DPM SRT on one of the servers. After running Create Recovery Point on this server from DPM System Recovery Tool there is Fail notification almost immediately, the description for error in the console is "Recovery Point generation failed because it was not possible to snapshot the system". On the affected server (Windows Server 2003 R2 STD SP2 x64) there are three entries in the event log: --- Source: VSS Event ID: 11 Volume Shadow Copy Service information: The COM Server with CLSID {faf53cc4-bd73-4e36-83f1-2b23f46e513e} and name VSSEvent can

DPM 2007 sp1 Install - Library not visible in DPM

Hello, New install - on Windows Storage Server 2003. My Cybernetics miSAN V is direct attached and is recognized by the OS. DPM is not seeing the library. I cannot seem to find a troubleshooting document for this situation. TIA, SeanRinVA

DPM 2007 SP1: Connection Lost NullReferenceException

Hi, DPM Service quits with NullReferenceException in Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.PRMCatalog.ReplicationOperationTypeLock..ctor Do you have any advice how to mitigate this? Thanks for any thought? Adrian -- Adrian Miller

DPM 2010 RC Agent install to MS ISA 2004 Server

We are encountering problems while installing an agent on ISA 2004 server. We configured the firewall to open the specific ports for dpm at the isa based on the knowledge article of dpm 2007 but we still get an error that wmi is not installed or running on the server. Any hints? Thx, Andr�

DPM 2010 RC - Is there a way to hide the client?

Is there a registry entry or group policy setting that we can use to hide the dpm client from our users? This would be very helpful. Thanks, Adam Westland

Winlogon errors 6005 and 6006 after exporting and importing VM

I exported a VM on machine A, copied the files to machine B, and imported the VM. Everything works well, except it takes 8-10 minutes to log in remotely to the VM. I haven't found anything helpful on the web, although there are a lot of reports of these kind of errors. The VM is 2008 R2 and the host is also 2008 R2. The VM didn't have this issue on machine A, and machine B (the host) doesn't have this issue. Any ideas? Thanks!

DPM 2007 SP1: NullReferenceException in Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.PRMCatalog.ReplicationOperationTypeLock

Hi, today I changed the disk allocation for some protected VMs, then the DPM MMC showed me the following message: DPM service could be running in recovery mode, which was initiated by the DpmSync tool. If DpmSync is not running and the DPM service is still in recovery mode, then run DpmSync again. Review the application event log for information about a possible service shutdown. Verify that the following services are not disabled: DPM DPM Replication Agent SQLAgent$MS$DPM2007$ MSSQL$MS$DPM2007$ Virtual Disk Service Volume Shadow Copy

Install Agent on other domain

Hi, I have a problem installing DPM 2010 RC Agents in other domain. Here is the scenario: I have Domain1 and Domain2 ,and they have trusted relationships. My DPM 2010 RC Server is installed on Domain1. When I try to install the agent to a computer with Windows 7 in the other domain it fails and show me this message: Unable to connect to the Active Directory Domain Services database. Make sure that the DPM server is a member of a domain and that a domain controller is running. Also verify that there is network connectivity between the DPM server and the domain control

Windows Server 2003 cluster Nodes BSOD efter DPM 2010 agent insta

Hi I have put DPM 2010 RC into to "test" at a client localtion after doing severel successful tests in test environment. The client already ran a fully patched dpm 2007 32 bit sloution. They have now gotten a new W2k8r2 server with dpm 2010rc All dpm agents were manually uninstallled and the servers rebooted. All protected servers are windows server 2003 32 bit. A protected two node cluster (File, Exchange, SQL, DHCP, NFS) had the new agent installed successfully. When I created a protection group for the entire cluster (approx. 7,5 TB), the dpm server started creating the

DPM 2010 RC and users' profiles

Is there a way to exclude certain common folders from backup of users' profiles? Say I don't want to backup internet explorer cache since there is no point and it changes very frequently...

Problem with systemstate backup with DPM 2010

Hi! We running DPM 2010RC on a Windows 2008 R2 The Protected computer is: Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Server 2003, Standard Edition 5.2.3790 Service Pack 2 Build 3790 When we installed the DPM agent the first backup of system state was successfully, so we have one restore point. But further backups in failing, the system state backup is in status “replica is inconsistent” and when I running a consistent check the job failing. In the error in DPM is: The replica of System Protection Computer\System Protection on sea0700smon1.xxxx.local is inconsistent with the protected data so

System State Backup fails, remote shared not found

get a failure now everytime I do a recovery point on the system state of an Exchange 2010 using DPM 2010 RC. The Mailbox and Public Folder Database recovery points are fine, but the system state and bare metal recovery both fail now. Windows backup on the Exchange 2010 states that the remote share can't be found, but looking at DPM, it is there. I also looked under disk management, and the volume is there with no errors reporting on it. All other servers (DC's, SQL, File Servers) are all backing up fine. Any ideas? Thanks....

DPM 2010 RC Client Recovery

We're running the release candidate for DPM 2010, and we're experimenting with the client protection. The clients produce valid recovery points, which can be recovered from the server, but we can't seem to get the client UI to work for recovery. We just keeping getting this error: "Unable to contact the DPM server. The Specified server does not exist or is not compatible with the Data Protection Manager Client. Recommendation: Make sure that the DPM server name you have specified is correct and not incorrectly spelt. Contact your DPM administrator to obtain any required updates." Has any

Recovery points *newer* than last DPMDB backup in DR scenario

We have a failed SQL server to recover today, including our DPMDB database. We have successfully got DPM back up and running from Monday night's physical backup of the DPMDB database. This was taken in addition to the the DPM backups of the SQL server instance and stored seperately. But we don't have the same for last night. I know that there were successful recovery points created yesterday from our SQL servers yesterday - these are not appearing in the recovery pane - presumably because the DB/catalog is from monday night and it doesn't 'know' about the recovery points, but I guess th

Is there any way to throttle multiple protection agents at once?

Running DPM 2010 RC and whenever I select multiple computers with protection agents from the management tab, the 'throttle computer' option is greyed out. I have 549 client computers and don't want to have to enter the throttling settings on each one. Please help.

GLOBALROOT Error on Exchange 2003

I setup protection for Exchange Server 2003 SP2 running on Win2K3 SP2. There are four information storage groups. I am protecting the server using DPM 2010 RC. All of the prerequisite steps were performed successfully. Two of the info storage groups (the small ones - 30GB) backup successfully. The two large info storage groups (125GB each) fail with the following alert message: DPM encountered an error while performing an operation for \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy38\Exchsvr\MdbData\support\Support (ServerName)\Support.edb on ServerName.domain.com (ID 2033 Detai

Backing up one folder shows space required for whole volume

Hi, We have fileserver cluster of windows server 2008 with sp2. We have installed DPM 2010 agents on both fileserver and DPM detected them as cluster nodes. We tried to set one test job to backup one folder of 5gb from clustered volume. At "Review disk allocation" we got "Total data size: 4,604 GB" which is the size of the whole volume and so we are getting below error in same wizard step. "There is insufficient free space in the storage pool for this protection group." We have 1.9TB space available to SAN connected to DPM server. Do we need to configure agent on file

Manually creating a replica

I have followed the article on TechNet on How to Manually Create a Replica but I'm not sure if I did it wrong or if what I'm experiencing is normal. At one of my sites, I have about 500MB of data that I would like to protect. I have followed the steps to manually create the replica but when I start the consistency check, the consistency check transfered all 500MB of data that I already imported! Did I do something wrong? I thought the purpose of manually importing the data is so that the initial replica doesn't go over the WAN. Thanks, Mike

SAN disk drives are not detecting by DPM Server

My Environment - x64 Windows 2008 with SP2 + Latest Patches x64 DPM 2007 SP1 + Patched to latest patches SAN Disk for Backup Initially I install DPM with already configured RAID 1 - OS, RAID 5 DPM Binaries and SQL DB. I had 3 SAN disks mounted rounding up to 1.5 TB. Later, I added 4 more disk from SAN totalling up to 14 TB, 4 TB on each disk. I am using PowerPath from DELL. These new disk are detected by PowerPath and Windows Server Manager - Storage. I can format these drives and use. But these disks are not detected by DPM Server. I installed a Hotfix - Dynamic Disk as

Restore DPM settings after upgrade the server from 32-bit to 64-bit - Urgent!

In order to resolve the 4GB limit on a 32-bit Win 2008 standard, I will need to install Win2008 R2 64-bit on the same DPM server. Since there's no upgrade path between 32 & 64-bit, I will need to resinstall DPM 2007 SP1. In order to save all settings had done to the DPM (protectiong roup, backup schedule settings, etc..) I plan to backup and restore the DPM database. Is there anything I need to know or need to do to make this easier? Thanks Bill

Restoring Entire SQL Server

After reading through the rather light documentation on technet (surprise, surprise) I am unable to find an easy solution to recovering an entire SQL server. I have a SQL server protection by DPM 2007 SP1, it contains around 50 databases. I am able to recover the system (Bare Metal) but am wondering how to recover all the databases from the GUI without doing it 1 by 1, either the latest or from some point in time. Do I need to script this???? Cheers Zak

DPM 2007 Total Disaster Recovery Options?

Hi, I want to configure DPM 2007 to be able to recover from a scenario where all onsite servers including the DPM server are destroyed. I'm aware of the second server replication setup, but my client doesn't want to shell out for the second server. Is there a way to configure DPM to backup all it's data to tape so it can be used to recover from a total disaster? \\Greg

install of DPM agent on Window 2003 x64 storage server

OK...this was working under DPM 2007, but I can't get this to work from DPM 2010. installing the client from the dpm 2010 server fails. running the client install manually and doing setdpmserver doesn't seem to make any difference. All I get is A DPM agent failed to communicate with the DPM service on <servername> because access is denied. Make sure that <servername> has DCOM launch and access permissions for the computer running the DPM agent (Error code: 0x80070005, full name: <servername>). I checked that the DPM server is part of the local groups on the DPM client

Tape Backup Job Failing on One Job ID: 3311

My weekend tape job has been failing for one server as well as the DPMdb backup for that server. See the two events below: Event Type: Error Event Source: DPM-EM Event Category: None Event ID: 1 Date: 2/28/2010 Time: 2:53:08 AM User: N/A Computer: dpmservername Description: The back up to tape job failed for the following reason: (ID: 3311) Failed to perform the operation since the tape free tape is not available in Stand Alone Drive Tape Library Hewlett Packard LTO Ultrium-3 drive (ID: 24050) DPM ID: 4^|^dpmservername^|^Backup to tape failed^|^DPM^|^Tape^|^dpmser

Unable to set synchronization options for SQL 2000 DB

Hi, I hope somebody can help me out here. We use SCDPM for most of our backing up and I am moving the last few old servers over to using it. One of the protection groups I am trying to create, is for an SQL 2000 DB. Other DB's on this box are perfectly fine. The one I'm trying to back up has recovery mode set to full so it's not that. The only thing I can think of is that this particular DB is the first one I've tried to back up which has 2 transaction log files. One named Db_tlog_1.ldf and the other Db_tlog_2.ndf. Any ideas as to where I can look for some sort of solutio

DPM agent for exchange 2007 fails with 80070643 error code

Greetings! I'm completely frustrated. When I try to install DPM agent on exchange 2007 i allways receive the same error 80070643 regardless of firewall settings or dpm agent version. Please help! My config is: exchange 2007 SP1 - on w2k8 x64 AD - in w2k3 native mode DPM 2007 - on w2k3 r2 32bit

DPM sometimes uses too many tapes

Hi, i have problem with DPM long term backups on tape. I have collocation enabled so that is not a problem. Sometimes DPM uses too many tapes for same protection group, sometimes it uses 1, and then sometimes 2 - 4. Amount of data is always same. Can anybody help me please, what could be the problem?

DPM 2007 does not see SQL 2005 Analysis Services Database

Hi ! We have DPM 2007 latest hotfix running and protecting a server with SQL 2005 and SQL 2000 installed. Also Analysis Services for SQL 2005 installed on that server which has a database mounted. When modifying the protection group I see the SQL 2000 instance and the SQL 2005 instance but I do not see the Analysis Services Database or instance in DPM. How can I backup that database with DPM ? Thanks for your help, Alex

DPM2010RC - Tape schedule keeps resetting to old settings

Hi, I have started to use DPM2010RC to backup our servers at work and intend to purchase the full version when it's RTM. As for the problem.. I have setup a custom recovery goal (daily with a retention of one week), and a secondary goal of weekly with a retention of one month. The idea being there is a backup Monday to Friday (which will be overwritten the following week) and then the weekly backup takes place on the Friday (a set of 5 Friday tapes) giving us a months worth of retention in total. It's the Backup Schedule that's the problem. The default setting is to backup every day o

Problems & questions about recovering shares

I'm piloting DPM 2010 as a backup solution for a clustered file server. This has led to a few questions: 1. Since DPM doesn't actually backup share permissions without a System State backup, what's the difference between a Share backup and a Volume backup? Why would I choose one over the other? 2. If I backup the data using a Volume backup, how can I get the share permissions restored? I tried restoring a System State backup onto one of the cluster nodes, but I suspect that the permissions on the folder were defaulted when the node rebooted to finish the SS restore (thus fail

Exchange 2003 and DPM2007

I use Exchange 2003 on server Windows 2003 32bit and DPM2007 on server Windows 2008R2. The replica of Storage group Storage Group on MyServer.MyDomain is inconsistent with the protected data source. All protection activities for data source will fail until the replica is synchronized with consistency check. You can recover data from existing recovery points, but new recovery points cannot be created until the replica is consistent. For SharePoint farm, recovery points will continue getting created with the databases that are consistent. To backup inconsistent databases, run

New DPM Server, name change

Hi I made a mistake with the name of my new DPM server. It doesn't have any clients yet. Can I renamed? I was wondering if DPM , SQL or IIS will broke... Thanks in advance Isaac __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4899 (20100226) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com

DPM Error on end-user recovery permissions

Hello. I currently have a server with DPM 2010 RC, version 3.0.7558.0 running and every 12 hours I'm getting the following error: Failed to update permissions used for end-user recovery on <servername>. Permissions update failed for the following reason: (ID 3123) Unable to update shares or share permissions. (ID 3050) I've seen that turning off end-user recovery will clear this warning, however, I've been told that I need to keep it on. Can someone point me in the right direction to see why this is happening? Event viewer's DPM alerts has the following: DPM ID: 3^|^<

DPM Failed to communicate with protection agent

Hi, We have installed DPM 2010RC and SharePoint 2010Beta (stand alone installation). We have backed up data and when we try to restore one file back to original location without using recovery farm we are getting below error message. DPM failed to communicate with the protection agent on <SharePoint_SERVERNAME> becuase the agent is not responding. (ID:43) The agent staus shows OK. Any Suggestion..

Restoring shares WITH share permissions using DPM

I'm backing up about 58 shares (using DPM 2007 SP1) and need to restore said shares to another (duplicate) server. Upon restore, the share permissions are missing, while the security permissions remain intact. I'm backing up what appears to be volumes and shares so I can recover either way as well....but the results are the same, no share permissions restored. Is there a step\process I'm missing???? Any help appreciated!

Cannot attach to agent on 2008R2

Unable to attach to agent installed ona 2008R2 server. (agent is the AMD64) Get the message: Ptrotection agent version 2.0.5820.0 Error: Data Protection Error ID: 344 DPM could not find the correct version of the DPM protection agent on the selected computer Recommeneded actions: 1) Make sure that the coreect version of the agent is installed on the selected computer. 2) If the protection agent has been recently upgraded, in DPM Management Shell, run Attach-ProductionServer.ps1 [cpomuter name] and refrsh te agent stutus again. The agent is inst