The following article explains the necessary steps to successfully share a Physical Tape Library and a Virtual Tape Library on System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM).  It also shows how to manually map library drives to the correct Tape...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we just published this morning about an issue you’ll see if you protect a database with two backslashes in the path: ===== Symptoms When you create a new SQL database (or it is created automatically by an application...

Hi everyone, Marc Reynolds here, and I wanted to take a minute to discuss a few issues recently where customers were having problems configuring protection of SharePoint 2010 running on their Small Business Server (SBS) 2011 server. When you attempt to...

A few weeks back I announced the System Center Blog Aggregator app for Windows Phone 7 and today I wanted to let you know that it was now available for all you Android users out there as well.  I won’t go into all the details as you can read that...

Hi everyone, Marc Reynolds here and I wanted to take a minute and show you how to use a new feature that came with the March DPM hotfix rollup package that allows users that are not local administrators on a protected client to recover their protected...

Hi, Shane Brasher here, and I just wanted to let you know about a new video I released. This video covers System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 and how to deploy and configure the Self-Service Recovery Tool (SSRT).  System Center Data Protection...

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...

Microsoft’s own Shane Brasher has just released another great new video.  This video covers System Center Data Protection Manager client setup, protection group configuration, client synchronization and client side file restore.  Check it out...

I know this isn’t DPM specific but I thought you might want to know about a great training opportunity we have coming up at the end of the month for Office 365.  On May 24th through 26th Microsoft Learning is hosting a free 3-day Jump Start tailored...

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...

Just a quick heads up on a new KB article we published today.  This one’s really only relevant from a support standpoint as it details the information our troubleshooting tool gathers but I thought you’d like to know about it anyway. Summary System...

Here’s an issue I ran into the other day and since I didn’t see a lot documented about it I thought I’d go ahead and post the fix here. Symptoms Using System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 to backup a SQL database fails with the following error:...

If you are performing Disk to Tape (D-T) backups using System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 or 2010 (DPM), after adding data sources (DS) to a protection group (PG) for two or more protected servers, the backup jobs may not be scheduled for any...

Ever since Windows Phone 7 was launched late last year there’s been a growing buzz surrounding Microsoft’s new phone OS, and with the recent announcement that the Windows Phone Marketplace had surpassed 10,000 apps in those 4-5 months and was growing...

Over the weekend, the DPM community lost one of its best – Ruud Baars. While you may be familiar with some of the DPM voices and faces, Ruud was one of the quiet and sometimes unseen, true innovators of how to deploy DPM in the real world. If you received...

Hi, Chris Butcher here, and it’s been a while but I'm back. Since I installed Data Protection Manager 2010 I don't seem to be attending to the DPM 2010 server nearly as much so I’m spending a lot of free time working on other projects (like my SharePoint...

Here's an interesting issue I ran into the other day.  While going through the DPM Protection Group wizard to protect a servers NTFS volume, after enumerating the protected servers data sources and clicking on the volume to protect you receive the...

Symptoms 1. Agent Status on the Primary System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM) server shows as OK for all Agents. 2. The Consistency Check on the Primary DPM server is failing with the following error: An unexpected error occurred while the...

The System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 – Windows Server 2008 R2 – Basic troubleshooter for Support Diagnostic Platform was designed to collect information to help troubleshoot most of Data Protection Manager 2010 problems.  Microsoft Support...

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I like to draw attention to something that may not be well known and surprise some old ‘die hard’ DPM’ers. You probably are familiar with the ‘rule’ that all protected hosts within a cluster must be protected by the same DPM server! This is does not apply...

Lets say you create virtual machine protection and current conditions allow “ Backup Using Child Partition Snapshot\< VM>” or in short; ‘ online’ protection. Then you change the VM configuration and introduce one of the conditions that prohibit...

Say you want to use the DPM “SAN recovery” option. This requires storage management steps for which it is useful to know which Windows disks (LUN’s) hold the associated DPM volumes for a given data source. First a generic recap of the potential ‘DPM SAN...

I like to draw attention to something that may not be well known and surprise some. You probably are familiar with the ‘rule’ that all protected hosts within a cluster must be protected by the same DPM server! This is does not apply to Exchange 2010 and...

Just a quick heads up on a new System Center Data Protection Manager KB article we published this morning.  This one talks about configuring cluster networks for Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) redirected access: ===== Summary When System Center Data...