Questions tagged [scdpm]

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager

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

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DPM 2010 - Performance when backing up Hyper-V Cluster

At my company we are backing up about 150 Hyper-v VMs in an Hyper-v cluster using CSVs (Windows 2008 R2). The space used by these VMs is about 18TB on SAN storage and 1GB network. We are using DPM 2010 to backup the VMs from the Cluster NODEs (6 of…
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Can't delete server from DPM console

I made a mistake installing a DPM agent on one of my servers. I installed it as if it were on an untrusted domain, using the -isNonDomainServer option. This succeeded, even though the server was the domain controller for the domain in question. The…
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Can DPM 2010 protect computers in a trusted domain when there is no forest trust relationship?

Scenario: DPM 2010 is installed in a domain in a forest, while the servers to be protected are installed in a different domain in a different forest. The two domains are child domains in their respective forests. There is a two-way external trust…
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DPM 2010 Offsite AD Image configuration job reports access is denied

Update: I think I've identified the moment of the problem in procmon on the primary server and have put a small chunk of the procmon output here. http://pastebin.com/GGX8qczs We've set up an offsite DPM server to act as a secondary server to our…
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Reliability of DPM with Windows Storage Server or large backups

We are successfully using DPM 2010 in a number of places, but in two sites we've been struggling with getting the backups to work. Both sites are backing up about 1TB of data and both from Windows Storage Server 2008 boxes. They both constantly get…
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DPM 2010 Synchronisation with Exchange leads to odd error in Exchange Server Log

On each DPM synchronisation the following errors are logged on the exchange server Unable to update Mailbox SD in the DS. Mailbox Guid: 2ad8687a-a049-4db2-b8c2-86b493495c20. Error Code 0x8004010f Unable to update Mailbox SD in the DS. Mailbox…
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Restore Virtual Machine from DPM2010 via powershell script

I need to restore a VM covered by DPM 2010 via powershell. I searched with google and it is kind of painfull to find no usefull documentation about DPM and Powershell. Parameters: - VMs are running on Cluster Shared Volumes with Server 2005 R2 on…
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backup of TFS with DPM 2007 - different backup times

I have DPM set up to back up my TFS server every 30 minutes, the reason being it's a way better interface than the quirky SQL backup interface. I also do a full backup nightly using an SQL maintenance job. My thinking is I would use DPM to restore…
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Setup/Guidance/Troubleshooting DPM 2010 Bare Metal Backups

Having difficulties setting up Bare Metal recovery in DPM 2010. Does anyone know of a good guide/walkthrough to talk me through a basic setup? I have tried most of the DPM knowledge base without much luck. I can perform System State backups, but…
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Can DPM 2007 back up Active Directory?

We're installing Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2007 - we'll be using it to back up Exchange and SQL Server among other things. Does anyone know if DPM can also back up Active Directory? It sounds like the answer is "not really". You can install…
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Can DPM 2010 backup Exchange 2007 LCR enabled storage groups?

My organization is currently evaluating DPM 2010 RC for backing up Exchange 2007 storage groups. When selecting group members from the "Create New Protection Group" dialog, the only storage groups that render selectable are those that do not have…
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DPM 2007 clashing with existing SQL backup job

I've recently installed a DPM2007 server on Server 2003 and have set up a protection group against a server 2003 server running SQL 2005 SP3. The SQL server in question has a full backup (as a sql agent job) once a day and transaction log backups…
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DPM 2019 Synchronization failed: (ID 65 Details: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host (0x80072746))

I am using a System Center 2019 DPM as a backup server that is running on its own hardware. Besides other backups, it backs up files from a file server cluster. The file servers use a deduplicated volume to store the files. The backup job backs up a…
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What size to create System Center DPM client protection disk storage allocation?

We're using Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM 2019) to back up our client data. When creating a protection group with clients, DPM asks how much data each computer will be backing up so it can allocate disk space for each of…
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Where does DPM use space on a protected SQL Server?

I'm using Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2016 to protect SQL Server 2017 on Windows Server 2016. I believe that whenever DPM does a backup (synchronization or express full) it will temporarily use some space on the SQL Server host…
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