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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Hello, my name is Walt Whitman and I am a Sr. Support Escalation Engineer with Microsoft.  Today we will be discussing how Data Protection Manager 2010 knows about the different data sources that comprise a SharePoint farm. SharePoint farms come...

Hi everyone, Shane Brasher here. In my opinion, the biggest enhancement from DPM 2007 to DPM 2010 is the auto-healing capabilities that enable protected datasources to remain reliably consistent. System Center Data Protection Manager 2010’s auto...

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...

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...

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...

With special thanks to Fahd Kamal for the backgrounder content. Imagine that you are experimenting with DPM 2010. You protect some data, and then you remove that protection group. Then, showing DPM to one of your friends, you protect the data again...

When you try to perform Item Level Recovery (ILR) in System Center Data Protection Manager 2010, you may get the following pop-up message: DPM cannot browse the contents of the virtual machine on the protected computer <name>. Item level recovery...

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...

Our very own Shane Brasher just released a new video, this one covering the steps to perform a BMR (bare metal restore) by way of DPM 2010 should you experience a catastrophic failure of a Windows Server 2008 computer.  You can view it here below...

You may have scripts running fine since early DPM2007 days but start to show unexpected results with DPM2010. This blog explains what is likely happening and how to resolve that. Typically information returned from cmdlets is assumed to be valid unless...

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...

This updated script is suitable for non-default mount points for CSV volumes --- # DSConfig.ps1 $infoText = "This script will generate the DatasourceGroups.xml file in the current path. Once this file is created merge it with the same file name under...

Please join us for a high level discussion into Microsoft software investments designed to cover most of the major product lines.  This will be a 35,000 foot view into the following areas: Windows Family Virtualization Office System Unified Communications...

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...

Hello, Mike Jacquet here, and today I would like to discuss a fix that has been included in the released version of System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager (DPM) that enables End User Recovery (EUR) for file shares on the root of mountpoints to work...

As Vijay announced , the System Center 2012 SP1 CTP2 is now available for download! We’d like to provide some additional information about what’s shipping in CTP2 for the DPM component: Efficient data protection of VMs deployed on Hyper...

As you already know, there are some reports that come out of the box when you install System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager (DPM): However, you still might need a report that includes different information or a different format. Since DPM 2012 relies...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where MSDPM.EXE crashes during Garbage Collection causing DPMDB growth in DPM 2007. ===== Symptoms Every day at midnight, System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 (DPM)...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where using DPM 2012 SP1 to create a protection group for a Hyper-V workload that is running on Windows Server 2012 fails to complete. ===== Symptoms When using System Center...