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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 | 2 Comments
Tuesday, July 01, 2008 12:35 PM

DPM 2007 Rollup Update -- NOW AVAILABLE

We are very excited to announce that the ‘Rollup Update’ for System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 is now available. There are new workloads to be protected, as well as new features in this update, including: Windows Server 2008 support
Posted by JasonBuffington | 7 Comments
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
Tuesday, September 04, 2007 1:26 PM

CLI Script: Force mark tape as free

This script allows a user to mark any tape as free so that it is available for protection by DPM. Tapes which have unexpired data cannot be marked as free from the GUI but sometimes (esp. while testing) users need to override this behaviour. Save this
Posted by dpm | 3 Comments
Tuesday, September 04, 2007 1:11 PM

CLI Script: Manual detailed inventory of unknown tapes

The following script runs detailed inventory on all unknown tapes in all the libraries attached to the specified DPM server. Save this script as a .ps1 file and run it. Usage and examples of scripts can be found by calling them with ‘-?’ or ‘-help’ from
Posted by dpm | 0 Comments
Thursday, August 09, 2007 6:41 AM

DPM Installation: Configuring Libraries

Configuring Tape Libraries (Continued from previous post) Last week’s DPM snip covered basic configuration of tape libraries and also mentioned if drives from a tape library are listed as stand-alone tape drives, or if a stand-alone tape drive displays
Posted by dpm | 1 Comments
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