I've followed th steps at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb808918.aspx regarding "A new tape library or stand-alone tape drive does not appear in DPM Administrator Console."  This is an initial installation.  The LTO tape drive in the library is seen as a Standalone tape.  I could really use your assistance.  The OS sees the library correctly, and is set to use the driver listed on the DPM 2007 website, 5.2.3790 from Microsoft, dated 10/1/2002.

OS: Storage Server 2003 - SP2 and all subsequent Windows Updates installed.

i'm testing client protection with DPM 2010. I have configured a Win7 client to be protected by DPM 2010. Creating recovery points works fine, also the recovery with the DPM Admin Console. But end-user recovery (properties on backuped folders on the client - "restore previous versions"-tab) didn't work, there are no recovery points available.

I have configured end-user recovery in DPM, and it works on a fileserver share, but not on the local client folders.

Has anyone a working Client Protection ?

Thanks

Armin

We were doing disk-to-disk back-ups, until the superloader came in this week.  I had no problem getting DPM to see the superloader drive, changer, and inventory the tapes.  We have now added long-term back-up to our protection groups using tape.

Our protection groups are about 300 GB in size, and I had the first tape back-up scheduled for 10p at night.  When I came in the next morning, the first protection group was still backing up to tape, and was not even half-way done.  The tape back-up was writing at about 500 KB / sec. 

I called Quantum, and we put the tape drive through every diagnostic test they could find and it passed with flying colors.  There is no other device in this SCSI chain - just the server to the superloader, and the SCSI is terminated at the superloader.

I've got the latest firmware for the superloader library and the drive, as well as the SCSI card.  I have the latest drive for the SCSI card from adaptect, and the latest drivers for the SuperLoader from Quantum.

Quantum suggested I use Microsofts "unknown medium changer" driver for the superloader library, but that caused DPM to stop seeing the library, so I changed it back.

During a tape back-up, the system resources on the server are well within the guidelines for good performance.  My understanding is that the tape back-ups are being made from the existing disk back-ups so the data isn't being pulled over the network.

There are no errors in the Windows System Log or Application Log, and DPM does write to tape without a problem, it just takes forever!

Any ideas?

Hardware

HP ProLiant DL 380 G5
2 x Intel Xeon 1.86GHz processrs
6 GB RAM
Adaptec SCSI Card 29320LPE - Ultra320 SCSI
Quantum SuperLoader 3 (left magazine only)
Quantum LTO 3 Ultrium tapes (new)
 

Software

Windows Server 2008 SP 2 (fullly patched) x64 (not virtualized)
DPM 2007

Enjoy and feel free post any questions you may have 

David

"The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel."

I found this

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic522201-162-1.aspx

and this 

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-GB/systemcenterdeployment/thread/597c668a-f537-414a-a2b5-6a4e44fa64c9

but neither solved my issue.

Any thoughts on other possible solutions? 

Event ID 107:

Source: Report Server Windows Service

Description: Report Server Windows Service (MSSQLSERVER) cannot connect to the report server database.

I'll have a  go at some research and testing to see why I cannot connect, and then back to you in a bit. Thanks.

This is a pretty generic error unfortunately, is there an associated entry in the event log with some more detail?

David

For me, this is the best reason to start looking at DPM as an applicable product!

If you still want some videos on DPM 2010, here they are:

1.  Register for the DPM 2010 RC webcast that took place on 14th Jan and download it.  The key features of DPM 2010 are highlighted.  http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032437132

David

Unfortunately, full support will not be provided until RTM.  However, the product team are all over the MS DPM newsgroup providing support if needed.

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.dataprotectionmanager&cat=en_US_c18d9b67-8a4f-493f-99fa-246042fd5824&lang=en&cr=US

David

Does DPM 2007 support taking image backup for Vmware Virtual Machines.

Regards

You can use the DPM System Recovery Tool to provide Bare Metal Recovery protection. 

Details of installing SRT are here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb808871.aspx.

David

• One to automate restore of a specific file share
• Another to automate restore of a specific database

Does anyone know how to do either of these in DPM Powerrshell script? What I am trying to do is automate restore of production data over to a test environment.