DPM 2010 can’t find disk
DPM was backing up file shares for more as a month without a problem. But suddenly, no backups of the file share could be made. A lot of errors were showing up in the DPM console and eventviewer. DPM...
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DPM 2010: Bare Metal Recovery–Network Connectivity
I was doing some test with Bare Metal Recovery. Most parts of the recover procedure are explained great in blogpost like this one from CTRL+P:...
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Upgrading DPM 2007 to DPM 2010
A customer is running DPM 2007 SP1 on a Windows Server 2003 with a Remote SQL 2005 database. The customer want’s to upgrade to DPM 2010. In this post I will explain my upgrade plan and the issues I ran...
View ArticleDPM 2010 agent installation stuck at 5%
After upgrading from DPM 2007 to DPM 2010 all agents need to be updated. This went fine on all servers but one, a Windows Server 2003 SP2 x86 server. Agent installation started but was stuck at 5%....
View ArticleNew rollup package for DPM 2010 (March 2011)
Microsoft released the second hotfix rollup package for DPM 2010 (KB2465832) This hotfix rollup resolves the following issues: When you change the ports that are used by the Data Protection Manager...
View ArticleDPM2010: Volume missing (3101)
Last week I changed the Protection group for the file shares at a customer site. I removed the DFS root share, and added each share in the DFS root server seperatly. When removing the DFS share I...
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Force Hyper-V VM backup to use System VSS
I was preparing a hyper-v backup on a demo environment. I only needed to backup one VM, so configuring the HP Lefthand VSS writer was not really needed. But when performing a backup in DPM, I received...
View ArticleDPM 2010– SQL transaction log backup failing
DPM was protecting SQL databases configured for SQL transaction log shipping. DPM detects the log shipping when starting to protect a database. So when you enable log shipping for a database which is...
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New DPM 2010 Book
There is a new DPM book available: “Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2010” by Steve Buchanan. I am currently reading this book and might review it later. Overview A practical step-by-step guide to...
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DPM 2010: Use unauthenticated SMTP server
One of our Belgian ISP providers, Telenet, allows us to send mails using an unauthenticated SMTP server (when connected to the Telenet network). The steps below explain how you can use an...
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