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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 | 0 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
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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 | 3 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)
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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
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