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Storage Calculators for System Center Data Protection Manager 2010
Microsoft has released some new sizing calculators for DPM 2010. DPM_2010_Storage_Calculator_for_Exchange_2010.xlsx DPM_2010_Storage_Calculator_for_Hyper-V.xlsx...
View ArticleSystem Center Data Protection Manager 2010 Monitoring Management Pack
The management pack monitors the health status of System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 and its components. It alerts the admin on critical health state and it provides certain break fix tasks to...
View ArticleDPM 2010 Enabling/Disabling co-location of data on Tape
With this feature, you can achieve better tape utilization by co-locating data from multiple protection groups with similar retention range. This feature is disabled by default. You can use following...
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Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals Jump Start
The “Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals” Jump Start is specially tailored for VMware and Microsoft virtualization technology pros. This cutting-edge course features expert instruction...
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DPM 2010 Fix: Disk based recovery points are not deleted as per retention goals
When using System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 or 2010 (DPM) to backup your production servers, you might encounter a situation where the recovery point volumes for your protected data source...
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System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 Doesn’t Detect Tape Drives In Library
I’ve used System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) since the 2007 beta, primarily for SharePoint and SQL backups & Exchange Backups. At a customer they have one DPM server which backs up to...
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DPM 2010 Data Protection Manager Error ID 316 on DPM Server or DPMRA Event id...
DPM 2010 Data Protection Manager Error ID: 316 or DPMRA Event id 85 Solution: On the protected server running the DPM agent SetDpmServer.exe -dpmServerName YOURDPMSERVER -isNonDomainServer...
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DPM 2010 System State of Bare Metal Recovery Fail on Windows 2008 R2 or...
When you check the event log of de server you see a event 517. Name: Microsoft-Windows-Backup Source: Microsoft-Windows-Backup Date: date Event ID: 5 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords: User:...
View ArticleData Protection Manager 2010 error ID 30140 Details: Internal error code:...
I get the following error in DPM Management console on a SQL2000 server that is protected with DPM 2010 Affected area: Occurred since: 8/20/2011 4:01:13 AM Description: Recovery...
View ArticleDPM Error 30126 DPM could not find find a valid recovery point on disk Or...
This error normally occurs due to one of the following two possible causes: Not enough disk space is available on the protected machine to store a backup of the system state files The Windows Server...
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DPM DCOM was unable to communicate with the computer using any of the...
Windows 2008 R2 DCOM was unable to communicate with the computer <servername> using any of the configured protocols. Windows 2003 R2 A DPM agent failed to communicate with the DPM service on...
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Error: The following alert became inactive at 27-9-2011 3:15:52. Status: Inactive Data source type: Data source: System Protection Computer: <ServerName> Description: Last 1 recovery points not...
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DPM force removal agent from server
Error: How to Uninstall a Protection Agent http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb809113.aspx Remove DPM agent from the DPM agent console http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff634203.aspx...
View ArticleDPM Migrate your protection data to a new disk
There are some cases you might need to migrate your protection data to a new disk. DPM is shipped with a Powershell script (MigrateDatasourceDataFromDPM.ps1) that allows you to migrate your protection...
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