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Hi everyone, Andy Nadarewistsch here.  While the restore process for System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 (DPM 2007) and System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM 2010) is the same for all versions of Exchange, the procedure on the Exchange side has gone through some changes.  Detailed...

Hi everyone, Shane Brasher here with some tips on how to troubleshoot networking issues related to the DPM Agent. The goal of this article is not to make you a networking expert or to provide in-depth networking training, but rather provide you with basic skills and knowledge of specific tools used to...

Hi Marc Reynolds here.  I have seen some issues lately where users of System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) protected clients have experienced slow performance on their clients after installing the DPM client. There have been two scenarios reported: 1. When booting up a DPM protected client...

The large range of ports used by dynamic RPC can pose a problem when attempting to allow communication through a firewall. In most cases, opening up 16,000 ports in the firewall to allow some application traffic is not feasible.  So if IPSec is not a possible solution, then the port range may be...

Just a quick FYI on a new Data Protection Manager Knowledge Base article we published today: ===== Summary While trying to create a protection group in System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 SP1 or System Center Data Protection Manager 2010, you may receive the following error: DPM cannot protect...

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 keep running out of space and the number of days that DPM has recovery points for exceeds the desired...

The Set-Quota PowerShell script (attached below) applies or removes disk quotas for protected client computers. It uses the expected data size per client value of the protection group to set the required disk quota for the client computers protected under that protection group. The script leverages windows...

Just a heads up on a new DPM 2010 Knowledge Base article we published this morning.  If you're protecting encrypted files using System Center Data Protection Manager  then you'll want to check this one out: ===== Summary This document aims to clarify how System Center Data Protection Manager...

Those with interest in modifying and creating DPM protection from CLI probably appreciate this otherwise there is little sense in reading further I guess. Those that seek to save and recreate protection configurations are up for a task that proved to be a daunting one, you may want to look into a twin...

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Here's a good tip you might find handy.  Let's say you have a situation where you have a legacy application or some other need that requires the archive bit to be reset for data which is being backed up. Given the fact that DPM does not use the Archive bit but instead uses the USN Change journal...

Data Protection Manager 2007 and Data Protection Manager 2010 notification emails may not be delivered to the configured list of recipients although individual test mails are delivered successfully (Options -> SMTP Server -> Send test mail). When you try to send a test mail to a group in this scenario...

With tape library sharing enabled on a System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 server, you may find that you're unable to generate the "Tape Management" and "Tape Utilization" reports even though the other reports seem to generate just fine. When generating the tape-based reports...

Just a quick note on an issue we've seen a time or two here in DPM product support.  Backup administrators who have scheduled System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) backups for Microsoft Exchange databases might run into backup failures if circular logging is turned on for those Exchange databases...

Last week, the DPM TechNet Forums were reorganized – so that it is easier for you to ask your question to the right group of experts -- and for them to answer you within context: DPM DPM Tape DPM Disaster Recovery DPM File protection DPM Exchange protection DPM SharePoint protection DPM SQL protection...

You may encounter tapes in DPM libraries that are written with an unsupported block size and first need to be erased because DPM cannot evaluate such tapes and therefore will not do anything to it. The ZIP file that can be downloaded here contains a script, script user guide and two utilities to accomplish...

This solution combines several existing tape related scripts with enriched functionality. The short list is shown in the DPMTapeUtil user guide illustration on the right. You can download the script and user guide from here , provided “as is” no rights or warranties implied. This script...

Imagine you got a replacement library for a broken one, or one with larger capacity to partition or share between DPM servers but anyway shows up as another tape drive. For discussion sake we say everything is fine with the new library but you now got all those protection groups on one or more DPM servers...

There are people that understand and monitor what’s happening in their environment, I’m sure you are one of those and may observe strange looking statistics. On the 10.000ft level and a per job basis, not all data that gets transferred is also stored!? Are we losing information? No, of course not! DPM...

Assume we have some sort of scenario where protection is continued on new storage pool and are left with old storage pool that contains data but is no longer relevant. You could develop the idea to re-use old storage pool disk space to enlarge the new storage pool and may even be part of a migration...

The MigrateDatasourceDataFromDPM script can have many formats one of which is to migrate a source disk to a target disk or array of disks. How much space do you need to migrate? You need at least as much as the source disk size of course but what if 1 or more volumes span to another disk? Take the sample...

Consider the following scenario: You install Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 Standard Edition on a Hyper-V virtual machine. You configure Forefront TMG 2010 to use all available space on one disk for Web caching. You protect this virtual machine by using System Center...

Suppose you found or created one of those valuable scripts but want to run it on a schedule or even schedule itself. Whilst there is this wonderful Powershell Pack that includes a module to utilize the task scheduler from Powershell, this article uses the standard “Schtasks” utility. We assume some familiarity...

The script shown below finds out how much recovery points volumes could be shrunk on DPM2010. One word of caution though: use the shrink feature with common sense and not as a regular remedy! Repeated small shrinks cause free space fragmentation and increases the number of extents. The shrink option...

When should I be concerned with this? Usually not at all and the DPM2010 RTM release will check actual LDM consumption providing an early warning. Neither will DPM2010 consume all LDM space allowing space for re-consolidation purposes to reduce extents should that be needed.  However, … …on large...