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Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/system-center/data-protection-manager.aspx

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How to repeat failed tape backup attempt in DPM 2007?

How do you repeat a scheduled backup of a protection group if the first backup attempt failed (e.g. if there were no tapes in the library, or if there was an intermittent failure in the library or drive). I know that you can force a backup of single…
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Restore more than 250 files using DPM 2010 and PowerShell

I've got what should be a fairly simple task: restore the following files from DPM: D:\inetpub\wwwroot\*\index.* I followed the instructions in this TechNet wiki and pretty much thought I had it. Unfortunately, the New-SearchOption commandlet can…
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Use Microsoft DPM 2010 with Azure or Amazon S3?

Does anyone know of any software that hooks up with Microsoft's DPM 2010 or even the new 2012 to ship data to cloud storage providers like Azure or S3? We utilize D2D backups today but want a more robust off-site solution than using a virtual tape…
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Can DPM 2007 back up virtualized Domain Controllers?

I'm reading this article on caveats and best-practices for running DCs in VMs. It states that the only way to back up a virtualized DC would be to use Windows Server Backup on the guest, due to interactions with Active Directory, and USN rollback,…
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Data Protection Manager Offsite Backup

Our current backup scheme is to backup all of our servers to a NAS device, and swap it out with another one occasionally. Of course, this is no fun to manage, so we've been evaluating Microsoft's DPM. So far, DPM looks like it will work great, but…
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SharePoint - Do DPM and SQL backups affect each other?

I am trying to clear up an ugly maintenance plan on SharePoint databases that happen to also be backed up by Data Protection Manager (which is setup to take snapshots at 15-minute intervals). The business would like to separately perform backups of…
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DPM 2010 RC Mailbox Recovery Fails

I am testing DPM 2010 with Exchange 2010. I am attempting to restore a single mailbox from a previous backup to a Recovery Database. I created and mounting the Recovery Database on the Exchange 2010 server and set the overwrite property. When I…
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Virtual Tape Libraries for Microsoft Data Protection Manager - Replacement for Crystalink Firestreamer?

What VTLs do you all use to allow DPM to store off-site? My current environment uses Microsoft DPM for all of its backups. DPM stores the backups locally just fine, but to get it to store digital copies offsite we had been using Crystalink's…
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Puzzling issue with Hyper-V backup (volume shadow copy) integration and DPM 2019

I have a Microsoft DPM 2019 server that's been backing up various Windows Hyper-V VMs without issue until recently. No apparent changes have been made, but now a particular VM is failing its backup due to the SQLServerWriter failing after the backup…
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Slow backup of data from file servers with System Center Data Protection Manager 2019

I have a virtual file server cluster of 2 VMs, where each VM is running with Windows Server 2019 (8 GB RAM, 8 vCPUs). The file servers store their data on a VHD set, which is formatted with NTFS and has deduplication enabled. There is about 14 TB of…
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DPM breaking network connectivity to itself

I'm backing up a specific folder in a VM (server 2016) with DPM (SC2016). Both have all the updates installed, latest patch versions. I noticed that after the initial replica, the backups have been failing to continue over the next few days. I…
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Windows server on bare metal vs hyper-v regarding DPM 2010

Planning how to set up a newly purchased server. It is to be placed in my DMZ, hosting webapps only requiring a simple software stack of Java, Tomcat servlet container, and PostgreSQL database on top of Windows. My plan is to either: Bare metal…
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DPM 2012 R2 Server Migration - New Hardware

I have 2 DPM 2012 R2 servers (both physical with internal storage), one onsite (DPM1) and one offsite (DPM2). I need to migrate my onsite DPM server (DPM1) to a new machine. This is currently a server with 6TB of disk storage. The new server has…
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DPM 2012 R2 Error 30231 - Exchange 2013 Protection Group

Hi all I seem to have an issue with DPM since I have changed over to new local disk storage. I have looked on the TechNet wiki here and the error we are getting is not listed - 30231. I have changed local storage before and used DPMSync to…
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DPM for File Server - awfully slow?

Testing DPM 2016 now. I find it awfully slow for working on a file server (a million files, around 5tb of data - so something quite small). It looks like DPM is copying the files one by one to a vhdx in the backup area. Anyone has any idea about…
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