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Wednesday, April 29, 2009 1:50 PM

CLI Script: DPM status report

The following script generates a comprehensive report of failures and the storage utilization for each Exchange Server that is protected by DPM on a per SG basis.
Posted by dpm | 0 Comments
Attachment(s): DPMGenerateProblemsReport.ps1
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 1:42 PM

CLI Script: To generate status reports

The attached script generates a comprehensive report of the status of all backups and the storage utilization for each Exchange Server that is protected by DPM on a per SG basis.
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Attachment(s): DPMReportAll.ps1
Friday, July 11, 2008 8:46 PM

Known Issues and recommended solutions on Secondary Protection (Disaster Recovery)

1. We have seen issues under Secondary DPM server when production server node is expanded in DPM UI, you do not see any datasources enumerated. As a result of this, you cannot add secondary protection for any of the datasources of that production server.
Posted by dpm | 3 Comments
Attachment(s): IssuesWithSecondaryDPM.txt
Sunday, July 06, 2008 6:02 PM

Enabling/Disabling co-location of data on Tape

With DPM 2007 Feature Pack (KB949779), we have added support for media co-location. With this feature, you can achieve better tape utilization by co-locating data from multiple protection groups with similar retention range. This feature is disabled by
Posted by dpm | 2 Comments
Friday, June 27, 2008 12:33 PM

Solving common DPM agent installation issues

This post is a summary of the most common support cases that we have been hearing so far in the area of DPM Protection Agent installation on a target server. We capture the following here in the excel sheet attached - common issues, why they fail, and
Posted by dpm | 1 Comments
Attachment(s): Agent Issues.xls
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 7:11 AM

CLI Script: Auto re-running consistency checks

Some customers had non-DPM issues, like network issues because of which consistency check (CC) jobs failed too often. For the benefit of them, we have added a script that would re-try CC until it succeeds. Note: In some cases, CC would impact the protected
Posted by dpm | 1 Comments
Attachment(s): Run-ConsistencyCheck.ps1
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 6:39 PM

CLI Script: To recover a DPM replica volume from data stored in tape

When a disaster occurs, and you lose your replica volume for any datasource, you could re-seed the replica from the backed-up data you have in tape. This little script initializes replica from a tape recovery point. The parameters have to be customized
Posted by dpm | 4 Comments
Attachment(s): RecoverReplicaFromTape.ps1
Wednesday, June 11, 2008 2:51 PM

CLI Script: To remove all datasources in inactive protection state

This script removes all inactive datasources under a given DPM server. It provides options to remove inactive datasources on disk/tape/both. Save this as a .ps1 file and invoke it from inside the DPM Management Shell. Please contact us if you need any further assistance in running the script or face any issues. ---------------------- Start of Script --------------------------------- param([string] $DPMServerName, [string] $RemoveOption)
Posted by dpm | 1 Comments
Attachment(s): Remove-InactiveDatasource.ps1
Friday, May 02, 2008 1:15 PM

Troubleshooting tips for DPM 2007 - on the Windows Server Core blog

Hi folks, There are some great DPM troubleshooting articles on the Windows Server 2008 core blog ( http://blogs.technet.com/askcore ) - which is maintained by the Microsoft Enterprise Windows Server Core Team. Basic Troubleshooting of DPM 2007 Troubleshooting
Posted by JasonBuffington | 1 Comments
Thursday, April 10, 2008 12:23 PM

DPM PowerShell Script -- invoking a Consistency Check

By design, DPM 2007 should be ‘ fire and forget ’ – meaning that after initial replication, data changes will automatically and routinely replicate.  However, due to a variety of external factors, the data set may become inconsistent. 
Posted by JasonBuffington | 1 Comments
Tuesday, September 04, 2007 1:21 PM

CLI Script: Run consistency check on invalid datasources

This script runs a consistency check job on all the protected datasources that are in the invalid state and tracks the set of jobs while giving progress on the screen. Save this script as a .ps1 file and run it. Usage and examples of scripts can be found
Posted by dpm | 1 Comments
 
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