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Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/system-center/data-protection-manager.aspx

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Active Directory disaster recovery with DPM

I have a sort of catch-22 question here. Suppose I'm using Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (2010 or 2012, it works the same way) to backup, amongst various other things, my Active Directory environment (as in "the System State of my…
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Why is not DPM 2012 treating my tapes as free even if they should be?

I have a DPM 2012 server (but I've heard the same behaviour happens with DPM 2010) I'm using to backup my environment; it's connected to a single tape drive (no library), so tape rotation is manual. My backup schedule is: Disk backups everyday at…
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DPM server 2010 Attach agent error : administrator privileges missing?

I’m hoping you would be able to help me out with this little problem I’m having. I installed DPM 2010 in our test environment to test backups on Exchange 2010 servers. The environment includes : 1xDC 2x Exchange Server 2010 1x DPM 2010…
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Azure Backup Server error: ID 4501

I'm trying to set up a backup Windows VMs to Azure using Azure Backup. I have successfully installed Azure Backup Server to Windows Server 2016 VM and configure VMware vSphere VMs backup using the…
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Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager

Ok, We are ready to deploy our first Hyper-V server with 3 VMs. Just wanted to get other peoples thoughts on Microsoft SCVMM. Do we really need it with only 1 host server? It seems like a good option if you have more than 1 hyper-v host. Are many…
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Is continuous backup workable for shared flat-file databases?

I'm talking about a dataset containing hundreds of DBF-format data files in a shared location, some or all of which may be open or locked by multiple network users, and Microsoft's Data Protection Manager replicating every two hours. Can the…
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Storage recommendations for DPM 2016

I am looking for deploying DPM 2016 and want to use StarWind VTL for tape backups like described in this blog: The problem is that I do not know what storage would be best for DPM 2016. My backup server has PERC H330 controller with 6x2TB 7.2K SAS…
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DPM 2010 has allocated 100% of our storage pool. What are our options?

Data Protection Manager 2010 has allocated 100% of our storage pool. We currently have all our protection groups set to 'automatically grow the volumes' [checkbox]. As we were trying to add a backup member (a network folder), we received the…
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Change dead disk in DPM 2010

I was backuping data on an 1Gb hard drive with DPM 2010. This disk died but I replace it with another 1Gb hard drive. But I don't find how to recreate data structure on this new drive from previous protection group. Protection group were red. I…
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iSCSI devices added to storage server during DPM 2012 SPI backups

We have a Windows Server 2012 Failover cluster running a number of virtual machines. Storage for the cluster is provided by a Windows Storage Server 2012 instance and mapped to the nodes via iSCSI. In addition, I use DPM 2012 SP1 to protect the…
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DPM 2010 iSCSI Mirror

We're using DPM 2010 for exchange backups, The backup Disk(s) are iSCSI attached drives from multiple NAS boxes. We'd like to mirror iqn.2009-07.com.example.example:RAID.iscsi4.vg0.iscsi05 onto…
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DPM Bare Metal Restore

We currently use Microsoft's Data Protection Manager (DPM) for backups in a relatively small environment, but I'm still worried about our main active directory server. I've been thinking that it'd be great to have a bare metal restore option for…
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Microsoft DPM, What are the Type Values in the Alert Table (SQL Backend)

Currently I have a PowerShell script which hooks into the SQL Backend of DPM and queries the list of unresolved alerts. In the table tbl_AHP_Alerts There is a field called Type. This Type Field refers to the situation of why the alert was…
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What is the disk fault tolerance in Data Protection Manager 2012

I've installed System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 SP1, created a Storage Pool assigning five hard disks. What would happen if one of those drive suddenly crash and become totally useless? Is there some kind of data redundancy that prevent…
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MS DPM - Slow performance of consistency check

I have a fileserver with an 8TB volume for which MS DPM is doing a consistency check, its now running 16 hours and it is probably less than 30% through the volume. Why is that so slow? My MS SQL database backups (few hundred GBs) are done in a…
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