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Forums: SCCM 2007 Backup with DPM 2010

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:55:55 GMT

I do not see a white paper for protecting SCCM 2007 with DPM 2010 as there are for other products. Can anyone share their experiences using DPM 2010 to backup SCCM?

Forums: How to Delete recovery points from the protection group

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:33:04 GMT

Hi,

I am using DPM 2010 and working fine in my network. I am having one issue i.e. i want to delete recovery points from the protection groups. as i am running out of space in the drive.

One of protection groups is having 3 recovery points but i dont want to delete the protection group and all the recovery points, i want to delete old recovery points in that group. Protection group i am using it is working fine. I want some space from by delting these recovery points.

Is there any option for deleting the same? if there is any scripit for delting, please help me.

Thanks,
Sri

Forums: Re: Do DPM 2007 scripts work in DPM 2010?

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 04:28:57 GMT

I didn't any definitive guidance, but I did find in a FAQ where MS said the Powershell cmdlets for DPM 2010 were extended from the DPM 2007 scripts so as to not break the DPM 2007 scripts. Just about to start testing my existing, but suspect most work, but testing will definitely be required.

Forums: RE: Re: Do DPM 2007 scripts work in DPM 2010?

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 06:57:16 GMT

Pete is correct, your DPM 2007 scripts should work on DPM 2010. I run a number of scripts and they have all worked perfectly after upgrading to DPM 2010.

It goes without saying though to test each your scripts rather than just assume that they'll work, as Pete suggests.

David

Forums: Backup all database recovery points to tape?

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:48:43 GMT

I am creating hourly SQL database recovery points to disk in DPM. Is there a way to get all of those recovery points to tape?

The reason I would like to do this is so that I can have hourly recovery points for 90 days while keeping only 10 days on disk. It is only possible to get a single recovery point per day on tape in the DPM management interface.

Forums: Re: Backup all database recovery points to tape?

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 04:58:42 GMT

I think the simplest thing in your case might be to run a Powershell script to dump the last recovery point to disk daily, backup and then clean up after backup to tape. We used DPM 2007 in this way with a third party backup product to facilitate site-to-site disaster recovery outside the confines of what DPM is capable of for a customer.

Forums: Do DPM 2007 scripts work in DPM 2010?

Sat, 07 Aug 2010 07:31:04 GMT

I have several scripts I use on DMP 2007 and just wondered if they would work if we upgrade to DPM 2010? if they do, it will allow us to upgrade much more quickly.

Forums: RE: 2010 disaster recovery setup between 2 sites

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 07:18:39 GMT

You might also have a look at this webcast

TechNet Webcast: Disaster Recovery and Advanced Data Protection Manager 2010 Scenarios (Level 100)

and also

DPM 2010 launch week @ MMS 2010: Part 5: Disaster recovery and advanced scenarios

Forums: RE: DPM 2010 - Cross Domain Replication

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 06:25:55 GMT

We need a bit more detail on this I think. What is the failure message returned when you try this?

Forums: RE: DPM 2010 - Cross Domain Replication

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 08:55:31 GMT

Hi,

When protecting a non domain server or a server in a non-trusted domain, you do need to install the agent manually and then attach it to the DPM server that is to provide protection. When you install the agent manually, you need to perform an extra step to configure the agent as a non-domain server.

The high level steps to follow are:

1. Install the DPM agent.

2. Run "SetDpmServer.exe -dpmServerName -isNonDomainServer -userName ". Obviously replace with your DPM server name and replace with any username of your choice for the DPM agent to communicate to teh DPM server.

3. Attach the agent to your DPM server.

For a more detailed, check out my article on it here. http://www.scdpmonline.org/111protecting-a-workgroup-computer-with-dpm-2010-easy-.aspx

Hope that helps.

David

Forums: 2010 disaster recovery setup between 2 sites

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:39:56 GMT

Hi there,

I am trying to setup disaster recover between 2 DPM 2010 servers running on two separate domains. I have the two servers up and running independently and I am now trying to backup DPM server 1 to DPM server 2 on a different site. The two sites are setup with a VPN connection between the two and servers are able to talk to each other between the sites. The firewalls on both servers are off.

I have tried a couple of things from the very limited documentation I could find on the internet. I initially tried to install the agent on DPM1 from DPM2 using the untrusted method as they are on two separate domains. When i tried this I got the error message:

Error 32684: Unable to contact the protection agent on server dpm1.domain.

I then thought that I needed to go to the DPM server and tried to run the agent installer. I got the following error message back in the command line window:

Protection agent cannot be installed on the machine where DPM is installed

The question is how can i get the data backed up from DPM1 to DPM2 on another site. Ive had a look around for documentation about disaster recovery but there is very little about. So far I have only managed to come across the following notes:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff634186.aspx

http://www.scdpmonline.org/Forums/Thread.aspx?mid=3&pageid=3&thread=23#post98

I’ve also come across video that describes how to do this but it is form 2007 and involves installing the agent on the primary DPM server and Ive tried that above but it doesn’t want to work on 2010.

Anyone any ideas?

Thanks

Forums: DPM 2010 - Cross Domain Replication

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:09:20 GMT

So, what's the trick to cross-domain replication with DPM 2010 ? I have my DPM server in the COMPANY domain, and a server that needs protection in a trusted domain called OUTSIDER. Could not use the Wizard in DPM2010 to install the agent so had to resort to a manual install, but when I try to Attach agents under the Management tab it stil fails. Tried to run the script to attach and that fails too. Where do I start to find a reason ?

Forums: DPM 2010 Dual Home Networks with Issues

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:21:11 GMT

We are trying to implement DPM 2010 on a firewalled Management Network that all are servers are on; to reduce the amount traffic across our routed network. At first, I struggled getting the agents to installed because it queried AD and DNS so it was getting the IP addresses of Production Network not the management network. I got around that through manually updating the host file on the DPM server with the Sever name and the IP address in the Management Network. I also had to manually install the DPM on these servers and discover them.

At first it seems to work but later the Protection groups go into inconsistent states and never get out even after forcing it to do a check.

I looked on Technet and forums nothing was found about this scenario.

Thanks

David

Forums: RE: DPM 2010 Dual Home Networks with Issues

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:12:53 GMT

Yes. What you do is create one or more backup networks via PowerShell. Have you tried this already?

See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff399746.aspx

Forums: DPM 2010 - Move Recovery Points to SAN

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:52:35 GMT

I started out this DP 2010 deployment using 2 pilot servers and the internal SCSI disk of only 500GB. I had only intended to use this internal disk until the new SAN arrived. Once the SAN arrived, I configured DPM to use it for storage, but it appears it has kept putting protected data sources on the internal disk - Disk1

I found the MigrateDatasourceDataFromDPM script and plan to use it to move everything from Disk1 to Disk2, but the big question now is, will this overwrite what is already on Disk2 or leave that intact ? Can't loose what is already on Disk2.

Forums: Re-installing DPM-server: same name or not?

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:47:50 GMT

I'm about to re-install our DPM-server. Should I give the server the same name as before, or better not?

Anyone experience with re-installing a DPM-server from scratch? And does the use of a secondary DPM-server to restore the first have an impact on the choice of the name for the "new" primary server?

Thanks in advance!

Forums: Re: Re-installing DPM-server: same name or not?

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:34:37 GMT

Hah, that didn't work :(

After I installed DPM 2010 on the second server (DPM02), I want to configure it to protect the first DPM-server (DPM01, which is still DPM2007 SP1+) so I have to install an agent onto it, which fails immediately with this error:

Install protection agent on DPM01 failed:

Error 33120: Unable to configure security settings for DpmDRTrustedMachines group on the computer DPM01 for DPM02.

Recommended action:

1) Make sure that the user name and password you have provided has administrator privileges on the target computer or

2) DpmDRTrustedMachines group is present on DPM01 or

3) Verify that you have the same major version of DPM on DPM01 and DPM02

After I manually created the group DpmDRTrustedMachines on DPM01, the Install Agent-wizard succeeds, but the Agent Status is in error:

Error: Data Protection Manager Error ID: 307

The protection agent operation failed because DPM detected an unknown DPM protection agent on DPM01.

Recommended action: Use Add or Remove Programs in Control Panel to uninstall the protection agent from DPM01, then reinstall the protection agent and perform the operation again.

But as this is a DPM-server, there is no DPM Agent in the "Add/Remove Software"-list. So I manually tried to install the DPM2010 Agent, but that ends with the message:

Protection Agent cannot be Installed on machine where DPM is installed

Check log files in [WINDIR]Temp\MSDPM*.LOG

So that leaves the third option to be probably the problem... So I'll be upgrading DPM01 to DPM2010, and then using DPM02 to protect that first server. Fingers crossed :)

Forums: Re: Re-installing DPM-server: same name or not?

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:58:48 GMT

And what about this:

* set up a DPM 2010 and make it secondary DPM-server (DPM02), and configure it to protect the first DPM (2007 SP1) server. (As according to the Upgrade Advisor you always update the secondary DPM-server first)

* Configure the new DPM 2010 server (DPM02) as primary server.

* Re-install the primary server using the same name (DPM01), using DPM 2010, and configure it to protect the second DPM (2010) server.

* Configure the new DPM 2010 server (DPM01) as primary server.

This would make both DPM-servers a clean DPM2010-install, making the process more easy.

Forums: Move Protected Server from Group to Group ?

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:51:49 GMT

Is it possible to move a protected server from one Protection Group to another without losing any of the existing recovery points or data ?

Forums: Re: Move Protected Server from Group to Group ?

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:26:08 GMT

Yes. Remove the protected server from the current protection group, but do NOT delete the Recovery Point or Replica volumes when prompted. Add the server to the new protection group and DPM will recognize the existing recovery point and replica volumes. A consistency check will be performed to synchronize the data, then you should be in business.