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I'm clearing out some of the blog posts I've clipped over the years and came across one that I saved when I was working on DPM . Jonathan Schwartz's article on how long it takes to move a petabyte of data caught my attention because it related to the Read More...
If you read this in an RSS feed, you won't have seen that my blog description has changed -- I'm moving from the Data Protection Manager (DPM) team to the Operations Manager team, focusing on management packs. This opens up a whole new world of stuff Read More...
Check out The Sean Blog for a step-by-step report on installing DPM 2007, with illustrations! Read More...
If you took a look at the DPM 2007 Operations Guide during the beta, you might have noticed that the server chapters have a similar organization: general maintenance management data recovery And within those sections are parallel topics, such as: renaming Read More...
Here are a few more questions-and-answers from last week's DPM 2007 chat session, starting with a very popular question that comes up in the newsgroup frequently: Q: [I'd like to use USB disk instead of tape for offsite and long term archival... will Read More...
It was great to "see" so many of you at this morning's chat on DPM 2007 - the room peaked at 90 people, although the gentleman with the Vista question doesn't really count. There was a nice variety of questions. I collected them so we can make sure the Read More...
Adding PowerShell integration to this version of DPM is a big plus -- you can use DPM Management Shell to manage multiple DPM servers simultaneously, script oft-performed tasks, even do a few things that you can't do in the UI (such as removing recovery Read More...
If you're familiar with DPM 2006, adding disks to the storage pool in DPM 2007 might be confusing because it doesn't behave the way you expect. You're not alone - a lot of you using the beta 2 version of DPM 2007 have run into this. So here's an explanation Read More...
There will be a chat session on July 31, at 8:00 a.m. (pacific time) to discuss DPM 2007, formerly referred to as V2. This is a great opportunity to get your questions answered, hope to "see" you there! "Get Ready for Data Protection Manager 2007 beta Read More...
Check out Jason's World , a new blog on DPM (and anything else Jason decides to write about). In addition, two of our Technology Adoption Program (TAP) partners are posting about their experiences with DPM on their blogs: DPMFAQ.COM and My Spot on the Read More...
Did you catch the webcast on protecting Virtual Server with DPM ? I watched the replay this afternoon and learned a new trick from Allen Stewart (who gives a really excellent presentation, btw). How to identify VSS-aware apps on Windows Server 2003: at Read More...
Another interesting webcast coming up that you won't want to miss: "Microsoft Virtual Server and Data Protection Manager Install and Configure Walk-through". Register at the events website . The presentation will also be available for replay later, but Read More...
As you may know, DPM 2007 adds support for tape to DPM 2006's disk-based protection. So with DPM 2007, you can configure protection disk-to-disk, disk-to-tape, or disk-to-disk-to-tape. But an important question you'll have is, will DPM work with my existing Read More...
Stefan Gossner posts about running PRESCAN.EXE against a Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 2.0 database before upgrading it to WSS 3.0 , and also provides a link to download the tool so you can run it ahead of time. What does this have to do with DPM? Read More...
One of the features we added to DPM 2007 is protection of desktop computers (those running Windows XP Professional SP2 or any edition of Vista except Home). But we also say in our documentation, "DPM does not support file protection on laptops...", and Read More...
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