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 ...read more

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 ...read more

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 ...read more

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 ...read more

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: ...read more

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 ...read more

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 ...read more

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 ...read more

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 ...read more

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 ...read more

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 ...read more

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 ...read more

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 ...read more

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 ...read more

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 ...read more

This video covers troubleshooting DPM communication to and from a TMG server.  In the video we verify that we have connectivity, then we break the communication between the two and walk through the steps needed to be performed on the TMG server in ...read more

Our very own Shane Brasher has just released another great new video, this one discussing an example of how we can use PowerShell and SQL changes to correct a System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM 2010) console crash. The issue he is troubleshooting ...read more

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 ...read more

Download the management pack I recently had the opportunity to sit down for a conversation with the DPM 2010 management pack team. I was elated with some of the new features and the approach they took in designing this management pack. This one is definitely ...read more

Our very own Shane Brasher just released another new video, this one covering the steps to perform a System State restore using DPM 2010 to a target server should it need a system state repair. You can view it here below or at the link here .     ...read more