Howdy Protectors, It seems Microsoft has released another couple of updates for our beloved product: 2966012 – Update Rollup 7 for System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager SP1 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2966012 2966014 – Update Rollup 3 for System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2966014 Keep Safe!!!
Tag: DPM
DPM 2012 dpmsync –restoreDB error 470
Howdy Protectors, For those of you with DPM 2012 who have attempted to restore the DPMDB, the restore operation may fails with the following error message: Error ID: 470DPM database is not present in the instance of SQL Server. Check that the DPM database is present in the given instance of SQL Server.Detailed Error: Invalid…
DPM 2012 Agent Deployment Error (319)
Howdy Protectors, You may say, here it comes another agent deployment troubleshooting idea, and you’d be absolutely right! In this case is specifically developed for the error 319: Install protection agent on name.domain.com failed:Error 319: The agent operation failed because of a communication error with the DPM Agent Coordinator service on name.domain.com.Error details: The RPC…
DPM 2012 R2 UR2 Re-Released
Howdy Protectors, This update rollup was re-released on May 20, 2014 to resolve a "DPMAMService" crash that occurred if the original update (KB 2958100) was applied. If you already installed Update Rollup 2 (UR2) on your Windows Server 2003 servers, you do not have to reinstall the UR2 agent that is required for Windows Server…
Migrate DPM Disk / Data Source (GUI)
Howdy Protectors, For the GUI lovers we have something really cool here… Migrate DPM Disk / Data Source (GUI) Below are some screenshots of how it works: I have SQL auto protect and co-location enabled, so I have a single replica and RP volume on Disk 1. Now I want to migrate that setup to…
Data Source Migration to Custom Volumes
There may be scenarios where we would want to have some data sources’ data from DPM storage pool to some specific custom volumes. This post is here to show the main steps: Run the dpm2010-ldmstat.ps1 script to see which data sources have the most extents. This only runs on DPM 2010: ============================== LDM&ShrinkStats ============================== Total…
Data Sources Dedicated Disk Volumes
I think everyone understands that it’s not possible to select a specified disk from the DPM storage pool as a target disk for a specific protection group, however we can always move data between disks as far as the same DPM server has access to both disks. Lets suppose we have ten protection groups and…
Tape Library Sharing I
This post is supposed to be the first of a series of four and they all have a common goal which is to try to demystify the concept of Tape Library Sharing. I have to thanks to Michael Jacquet, who has been my main source either in forums, blogs, trainings, or when I am simply…
DAGs Protection Hints – DPM 2010
DPM 2010 provides node based protection so the state of the database on the node – whether it is an Active copy or a Passive copy of the Exchange 2010 DB does not matter. The state of the database may switch back and forth from Active to Passive, but DPM will continue to protect the…
DPM Licensing
It was recently published an amazing article about DPM licensing… So many customers come to me asking me all of these questions regarding licensing, and because on my role we don’t deal with that we always end up kind of passing the question to other people in Microsoft… With this article from the so well…