A reminder about replica creation

If you've used DPM at all, you're familiar with the process of starting protection of data:

  1. You create a protection group for the data sources that you want to protect.
  2. DPM creates a replica for each protection group member.
  3. The schedule of synchronizations, consistency checks, and shadow copies that you configured goes into action.

What has happened for several of our customers is that they've tried adding new members to the group or making changes to the protection group settings before step 2 above is complete. So just a reminder - until replica creation is complete, you can't make changes to the protection group. As soon as replica creation is complete, you can add members and change settings all you want!