I have a DPM recovery job from tape failing, trying to recover a file server VM  (1,2TB across 6 vhd files). First I tried to recover from tape only the .vhd that i'm looking for (around 350GB .vhd) but DPM fails miserably at the begining of the job with error ID 1001 (no further data, sorry). My only chances are recovering the full VM wich is spanned across 2 LTO4 tapes in the library. The job starts OK and I can see the first 4 vhd files of the VM in the destination path of the recovery job. The 5th .vhd (the one I need) is spanned to the 2nd tape and it's where DPM fails, not allowing me to recover the 5th and 6th vhd. I believe DPM cannot recovery data spanned across tapes with my library configuration.

I have a retention policy of 4 weeks in this Protection Group, I tried to recover from the last 3 TapeSets allways with the same error. I tried changing the BufferQueueSize in the registry to 1,2 and 3 from the default 10, with no results.

Error output:

The recovery jobs for Microsoft Hyper-V \Backup Using Child Partition Snapshot\<File Server VM> that started at quarta-feira, 20 de Março de 2013 14:53:12, with the destination of <DPM Server>, have completed. Most or all jobs failed to recover the requested data. (ID 3111).

DPM encountered a critical error while trying to parse the contents of the tape Hyper-V Cluster VM (Weekly)-00000011 (000028LU). This may be because the data on this tape is corrupt. (ID 24080 Details: Internal error code: 0x80990AA5)

My DPM Server configuration:

Server: Dell Poweredge 2950
Tape Library: Dell TL2000 SAS (IBM 3573 rebranded) with IBM Corporation driver 6.2.1.5 dated 13-01-2011 and firmwareA.50
OS: Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1 (all latest patches installed)
DPM: DPM 2012 RTM (UR3 installed) supported on SQL 2008 R2

Hi,

I searched for supported Hardware and I can´t find anything. Dell even told me that they only support 2007DPM, so I´m wonderiung whcih Hardware I should use with DPM.

In the threads I found, nothing is supported with DPM 2012, can somebody tell me where I can find a list of supported Hardware? Thank you.

gruss Daniel Ovadia MBSS - Microsoft Dynamics CRM MCNPS

Hello

Im new to DPM i just installed it by reading the technet articles.

We have some issues with DPM 2012 im using Dell Tape Library TL2000 i have deployed DPM 2012 Roll update 3 

I just need to know DPM 2012 supports TL2000 how to start the backup on tape 

Hello,

It's not a question. It's a statement.

I came across this weird situation where I can see DPM stating that 2 Tape jobs are "in Progress" whereas I only have a single drive library. ??

Scenario:

The Tape backup failed for some PGs. I ask for a Re-run of failed jobs from the Alert tab. No more Free tape within the library. I decided to use one inside the mibrary that has been used for a test. I marked it as free (PowerShell script) and make a Short Erase action on it. This action trigerred a "Tape data earse job" in the Monitoring tab. I was monitoring the time it takes to "clean" the tape, and after 18 min, I realized that the tape was "backuping " data on it... I could have wait a long time for the "Erase job" to finish ;-)

By the way, It may have been a UI refresh, but no. I confirm that within the management tab, where you can review your library contents, you can clearly see the Backup to tape jobs "running" (Data written is increasing), whereas the Status of the Drive states : " Erasing tape, this is not cancellable".

I hope the tape is not erased using my real data ;-)

I'm' runing DPM 2012 SP1 with CU1 (I was in the process to apply CU2 but wanted my Tape backup jobs to be terminated first.)

Im' using a DELL TL2000 Library with the lastest firmware/driver for the "Tape Chain" (SAS HBA, Library, Drive)

The good news is that you can thint you can paralellize two jobs, but i'm afraid not, it's ot Magic!.

Has Anyone seen this before ?

Pascal.

Hi everybody,

One of our customers runs DPM 2012 SP1 rollup 2 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 server. Tape optimization worked fine before upgrading to DPM 2012, but now 8 tapes (LTO5) are used for a full backup instead of 3 tapes before the upgrade. I created a set for tape optimization, and all Protection Groups are members here. The "don't allow backups of different retention periods to co-locate on same tape" check box is not selected. The write period setting is currently set to 4 days, and the tape jobs takes about 2 days to complete. All tapes are marked as Offsite ready.

Data compression is currently disabled - recommended setting?

/Amir

We currently use Microsoft DPM 2010 to backup all servers as well as a few senior employee desktops. DPM was working great until our tape drive broke, we used a dell powervault 124t with a quantum lto 3 tape drive. We are going to continue to use DPM for short-term backups to disk though. I've attempted to remove the broken tape library multiple ways but am unsuccessful at it. All I'm trying to do is remove the tape inventory jobs so that I don't have to look at them everyday. I know they are harmless, but I'd rather not see them if possible. I've ran a sql script that was supposed to stop the jobs from running. I got the script to run successfully, but it still hasn't stopped the jobs from running. Plus the script was designed for dpm 2007. I am looking for any help possible. Here's the current status of the dpm library

UserFriendlyName : Dell (tm) PowerVault (tm) 124T Autoloader
IsOffline        : False
IsEnabled        : False

UserFriendlyName : Quantum LTO 3 Tape Drive
IsOffline        : True
IsEnabled        : True

I'm at the point of re-installing dpm 2010 just to remove this error, hoping that might get rid of it.

I have DPM 2012 SP1 running nicely.

I want to encrypt my tapes. I have a CA so I followed this procedure to create a new template and issue a certificate with key to the DPM server.

I don't have IIS on my DPM server, and don't really want to install it so I want to get a certificate from my Windows 2008 R2 CA.

I have reproduced on two servers with two different tape drives, so I don't think it is hardware related.

http://www.archivum.info/microsoft.public.dataprotectionmanager/2009-06/00471/Re-Tape-Encryption-CA-Certificates.html

When I add encryption to a protection group, about 1 minute after the tape backup starts DPM crashes:

There is an event 999

The description for Event ID 999 from source MSDPM cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.

If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event.

The following information was included with the event:

An unexpected error caused a failure for process 'msdpm'.  Restart the DPM process 'msdpm'.

Problem Details:

<FatalServiceError><__System><ID>19</ID><Seq>768</Seq><TimeCreated>01/05/2013 11:14:53</TimeCreated><Source>DpmThreadPool.cs</Source><Line>163</Line><HasError>True</HasError></__System><ExceptionType>CryptographicException</ExceptionType><ExceptionMessage>Invalid provider type specified.

</ExceptionMessage><ExceptionDetails>System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException: Invalid provider type specified.

   at System.Security.Cryptography.Utils.CreateProvHandle(CspParameters parameters, Boolean randomKeyContainer)

   at System.Security.Cryptography.Utils.GetKeyPairHelper(CspAlgorithmType keyType, CspParameters parameters, Boolean randomKeyContainer, Int32 dwKeySize, SafeProvHandle&amp; safeProvHandle, SafeKeyHandle&amp; safeKeyHandle)

   at System.Security.Cryptography.RSACryptoServiceProvider.GetKeyPair()

   at System.Security.Cryptography.RSACryptoServiceProvider..ctor(Int32 dwKeySize, CspParameters parameters, Boolean useDefaultKeySize)

   at System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509Certificate2.get_PrivateKey()

   at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.EngineUICommon.EncryptionHelper.DecryptSessionKey(X509Certificate2 x509Cert, Byte[] encryptedSessionKey)

   at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.EngineUICommon.EncryptionHelper.RetriveSessionKey(EnvelopeType mtaEnvelope, String storeName)

   at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.EngineUICommon.EncryptionHelper.GetSessionKey(EnvelopeType mtaEnvelope, Boolean recovery)

   at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.MMUtils.TaskHelper.GetSessionKey(String omid, Boolean isForRead)

   at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.MMInterface.MMBackupLoop.SendMTAPerformIO(Message msg)

   at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.MMInterface.MMBackupLoop.CheckIsWriteOMIDNeeded(Message msg)

   at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.TaskExecutor.Fsm.ConnectionPoint.Execute(Message msg)

   at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.TaskExecutor.Fsm.Engine.ChangeState(Message msg)

   at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.TaskExecutor.TaskInstance.Process(Object dummy)

   at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.TaskExecutor.FsmThreadFunction.Function(Object taskThreadContextObj)

   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.runTryCode(Object userData)

   at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.RuntimeHelpers.ExecuteCodeWithGuaranteedCleanup(TryCode code, CleanupCode backoutCode, Object userData)

   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)

   at System.Threading._ThreadPoolWaitCallback.PerformWaitCallbackInternal(_ThreadPoolWaitCallback tpWaitCallBack)

   at System.Threading._ThreadPoolWaitCallback.PerformWaitCallback(Object state)</ExceptionDetails></FatalServiceError>

the message resource is present but the message is not found in the string/message table

The DPM service terminated unexpectedly.  It has done this 1 time(s).  The following corrective action will be taken in 100 milliseconds: Restart the service.

If I remove the encryption it works again.

CarolChi

i have a question about what days i can restore off a weekly tape. This may be a multiple answer question.  so help me if you can.

My scenario, DPM 2010 and patches that i am aware of.

roughly 14 days worth of data to disk.  Weekly take taken every week on Sunday starting at 12:00am. 

Let me use the scenarios of the month of April.  The 1st has a recovery point from a monthly tape backup.

the 7th has a tape recovery point

the 14th has a tape recovery point

the 17th start the first set of disk based recovery points at 15 minute intervals.

the last day of disk based recovery points is on May 2nd.

taking the tape based recovery points, what day or days are recoverable.  Thinking of the tape backup from the 14th, would i be able to recovey any of the data from specific days between April 8th and April 13th?

please feel free to ask if you need able more details.

Ian

Ian

There are some basic procedures outlined for adding Encryption Certificates to DPM on the 'net. Most of these suggest using IIS.

Does anyone have a DPM Certificate Template that works?

Thanks,
Bob.

I've figured out that in DPM2012 SP1 you have to import the certificate with the key into BOTH the DPM restore store AND the DPM backup store to be able to make an encrypted backup.

So I have got my certificate (made for information from a template created by copying the webserver template, and giving access to the DPM server, since DPM on server 2012 does not have IIS installed by default).

I have imported it into the DPMBackup and DPM restore store, with the private key.

I have put the CA cert from the other domain in the trusted root authority store.

I keep trying to recatalog the tape with no success.

Any more ideas?

There are no errors in the event logs.

CarolChi

 I'm using Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2012 SP1 with a Quantum Superloader LTO-4 library (SAS interface) and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. This library is included in the list of tape units certificated to work with DMP 2012 SP1 (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh916523.aspx)

This is the first time I'm using DPM, but I'm very familiarized with other tape backup applications (Backup Exec, HP Data Protector Express...).

I need help with some issues in tasks that are easily accomplished in other backup applications:

- All backup Jobs are showing error messages with iD 24052 regarding to no availability of the library. Looking into the monitor section of DPM I can see that for each protected member included in the backup job there are four messages: first of them (in time) indicates that the backp of this protected member is ok. The other three have the 24052 error, and they are generated together for all of the protected members almost at the end of the backup job. I tested the backups and I can restore information correctly, but obviously I could not did the test with all the backed up information, so I'm not totally sure of being completely protected. What do these final and recurrente erros mean? What I'm doing bad?

- Tape media names are always the same. I have configured only long term protection, but with three levels: daily (four days with one week retention), weekly (four weeks with four weeks retention) and monthly (two months with two months retention). When defining the protection group I can configure names for the tape used each day (day1, day2, week3, month2...), but when the job finished all the tapes in the same level have the same name (for example: day1 in the daily ones), and DPM append an incremental number to the name. This looks like: day1-00000007, day1-00000011...; the same for the weekly and monthly tapes. I need correct and fixed names being asigned to each tape to be able to identify them correctly in the rotation and when I move them inside and outside of the library for off-site protection.

- I would like to make incremental backups with one week retention, and weekly backups with four weeks retention. I tried using short time protection, but if I select four weeks retention it applies to incremental backups too, and I don't want this. Actually I'm using only long term protection, and I'm getting the retention periods I want (one week for daily backups, four weeks for weekly backups and two months for monthly backups) but I would prefer that the daily jobs were incremental backups, and not complete backups. Is there any way to do this?

- Is there any way to define more than a protection group for the same protected member? I'd like to make disk backup of some of the protected members for quickly recover, but maintaining them into the tape backup too. If I use short term protection to disk in the main job all of the protected members would be affected, and I can't do that (too much space wasted).

Hi,

We have the following setup and need to achieve Long term backup to tape.

1. Configured virtual tape library for DPM 2012.

2. Done rescan/inventory on the DPM console and we are able view the details of Tape library (Drive type-LTO_Ultrium).

- Library : Sun/Storage Tek Library

  + Drives (In use:0 | Idle:8)

  + Slots (Tape available:20 | Empty:20)

3. While configuring the protection group long term on tape. The option "I want longterm protection using tape" is available and the option is checked. Next step going for retention range but next step its not giving the option for selecting tape drive its taking to Allocate storage (disks).

Please suggest.....

Thanks

Sunny

I Have followed this article for using dpm 2010 fast inventory using powershell however it seems to fail and I have no idea why.... seems straight forward to me.

Anyone got ideas?

$DPMLib=Get-DPMLibrary -DPMServerName "SERVER" Start-DPMLibraryInventory -DPMLibrary $DPMLib -FastInventory

This is the error that is returned.....

Get-DPMLibrary : A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument 'Start-DPMLibraryInventory'.
At line:1 char:25+ $DPMLib = Get-DPMLibrary <<<<  -DPMServerName "SERVER" Start-DPMLibraryInventory -DPMLibrary $DPMLib -FastInventory+ CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:) [Get-DPMLibrary], ParameterBindingException+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : PositionalParameterNotFound,Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.UI.Cmdlet.GetLibrary

The Tape library has a weird name as it has spaces and '( )' in the name. GetDPMLibrary returned this:

Library: Hewlett Packard 1x8 G2 autoloader  (x64 based)

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Hi.

I really hope that someone help me with this issue.

Here is my environment:
DPM 2012 SP1 on Windows Server 2012
DELL TL2000 fully upgraded (Library Firmware: B.60 / Drive Firmware: BBH4)
Driver instaled on Windows is 6.2.3.3, it's the latest driver avaliable from Dell.

DPM recognizes all tapes using Fast Inventory (all tapes have Barcode)


When I start a Detailed inventory

The first tape is mounted and read, but it's not dismounted and the next job failed with this description:
"DPM failed to mount the tape  (000001L4) in drive LTO Tape drive (1310057255) for the library IBM TotalStorage 3573 Tape Library. This is because DPM is not synchronized with the current state of the library. (ID 24077)"

And all subsequent jobs failed with this message:
"DPM could not reserve the drive resource because one of required drive resources is not online or it needs cleaning or servicing. (ID 24052)"

I had enabled the DPM Verbose Log and found these lines:

-------LOG--------
0A50049C 05/0923:05:12.37428FsmBlock.cs(178)WARNINGLibraryCleanupMachine.LibraryCleanupBlock.DismountBlock : LADismountDrive, StatusReason = Error (StatusCode = -2147467259, ErrorCode = GenericAgentFailure, workitem = 13bf080e-07fe-4ccd-a10c-8a3b51e41d6b)
0A50049C 05/0923:05:12.37428FsmBlock.cs(178)WARNINGResponse: <?xml version="1.0"?>
0A50049C 05/0923:05:12.37428FsmBlock.cs(178)WARNING<Status xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/dls/StatusMessages.xsd" StatusCode="-2147467259" Reason="Error" CommandID="LADismountDrive" CommandInstanceID="f9515b16-6b24-4e0b-b693-32ac70aa35dd" GuidWorkItem="13bf080e-07fe-4ccd-a10c-8a3b51e41d6b" TETaskInstanceID="840ef615-e513-482c-b72b-21db61818063"><ErrorInfo xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/dls/GenericAgentStatus.xsd" ErrorCode="998" DetailedCode="-2147467259" DetailedSource="2"/><LAStatus><LADismountDrive xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/dls/LibraryAgent/LAStatus.xsd"/></LAStatus></Status>
0A50049C 05/0923:05:12.37428MMCatalog.cs(6804)840EF615-E513-482C-B72B-21DB61818063 WARNINGDismount Failed on drive d338f562-b9bd-4be2-85f4-51b7c85b6b41 with error code GenericAgentFailure
0A50049C 05/0923:05:12.37728EventHelper.cs(708)840EF615-E513-482C-B72B-21DB61818063 NORMALPublishing MediaOperationFailed event for MediaId=4233a755-fb8c-46fa-b212-9cdabd0eef38, Operation=Dismount
0A50049C 05/0923:05:12.38928MMCatalog.cs(10220)840EF615-E513-482C-B72B-21DB61818063 WARNINGGeneric agent failure
0A50049C 05/0923:05:12.39028EventHelper.cs(708)840EF615-E513-482C-B72B-21DB61818063 NORMALPublishing MediaOperationFailed event for MediaId=4233a755-fb8c-46fa-b212-9cdabd0eef38, Operation=Dismount
0A50049C 05/0923:05:12.39002EventManager.cs(98)840EF615-E513-482C-B72B-21DB61818063 NORMALPublishing event from MMCatalog.cs(6825): MediaOperationFailed, [MediaID=4233a755-fb8c-46fa-b212-9cdabd0eef38]
0A50049C 05/0923:05:12.39402EventManager.cs(98)840EF615-E513-482C-B72B-21DB61818063 NORMALPublishing event from MMCatalog.cs(10400): MediaOperationFailed, [MediaID=4233a755-fb8c-46fa-b212-9cdabd0eef38]
0A50049C 05/0923:05:12.39828DismountBlock.cs(226)840EF615-E513-482C-B72B-21DB61818063 WARNINGDismount Drive failed with error=GenericAgentFailure
0A50049C 05/0923:05:12.40028TaskElement.cs(358)840EF615-E513-482C-B72B-21DB61818063 NORMALUnreserving the resources used for task 840ef615-e513-482c-b72b-21db61818063 keepDriveReservedForJob=False
0A50049C 05/0923:05:12.41128Drive.cs(102)840EF615-E513-482C-B72B-21DB61818063 NORMALUnreserving drive d338f562-b9bd-4be2-85f4-51b7c85b6b41 from task 840ef615-e513-482c-b72b-21db61818063, unreserveForTaskOnly False
0A50049C 05/0923:05:12.41328Task.cs(264)840EF615-E513-482C-B72B-21DB61818063 NORMALUpdated reservation SourceMedia: 4233a755-fb8c-46fa-b212-9cdabd0eef38 DestinationMedia: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 SourceDrive: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 DestinationDrive: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 for task 840ef615-e513-482c-b72b-21db61818063 in DB
0A50049C 05/0923:05:12.41328MMCatalog.cs(5236)840EF615-E513-482C-B72B-21DB61818063 NORMALGoing to Update reservation level of drive => DriveId = d338f562-b9bd-4be2-85f4-51b7c85b6b41, GlobalDriveId = b1c1b163-c652-4500-af27-47bf41e8616c as None in DB
0A50049C 05/0923:05:12.42328Media.cs(165)840EF615-E513-482C-B72B-21DB61818063 NORMALUnreserving media 4233a755-fb8c-46fa-b212-9cdabd0eef38 from task 840ef615-e513-482c-b72b-21db61818063, unreserveForTaskOnly False 
0A50049C 05/0923:05:12.42428Task.cs(264)840EF615-E513-482C-B72B-21DB61818063 NORMALUpdated reservation SourceMedia: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 DestinationMedia: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 SourceDrive: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 DestinationDrive: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 for task 840ef615-e513-482c-b72b-21db61818063 in DB
0A50049C 05/0923:05:12.42428MMCatalog.cs(5225)840EF615-E513-482C-B72B-21DB61818063 NORMALGoing to Update reservation level of media => MediaId = 4233a755-fb8c-46fa-b212-9cdabd0eef38, GlobalMediaId =3027e94a-19db-4f5b-8fc1-0a0993b151ea as None in DB
0A500BB8 05/0923:05:12.47628JobElement.cs(167)840EF615-E513-482C-B72B-21DB61818063 NORMALUnreserving resources and NOT retaining drives for job
0A500BB8 05/0923:05:12.47628TaskElement.cs(358)840EF615-E513-482C-B72B-21DB61818063 NORMALUnreserving the resources used for task 840ef615-e513-482c-b72b-21db61818063 keepDriveReservedForJob=False
0A500BB8 05/0923:05:12.47728LibraryCleanupMachine.cs(219)840EF615-E513-482C-B72B-21DB61818063 NORMALLibraryCleanupMachine : Execution -- SUCCESS
0A500BB8 05/0923:05:12.50402EventManager.cs(98)840EF615-E513-482C-B72B-21DB61818063 NORMALPublishing event from TaskInstance.cs(823): TaskStop, [TaskID=840ef615-e513-482c-b72b-21db61818063]
0A500BB8 05/0923:05:12.50701TaskExecutor.cs(849)840EF615-E513-482C-B72B-21DB61818063 NORMALTask stopped (state=Completed, error=Success; 0; None)
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I tested the library using Dell's software ITDT and everything is ok.

Thanks in advance.

how add backup to already backup has taken in tape

I'm looking answer for the following question.

Is it possible to set short term protection to tape according to schedule: full backup - every 2 weeks, incremental every working days?

thanks in advance

br kyrik

Hi guys,

This is a new DPM 2010 on a Windows 2008 R2 server, HP Ultrium 1840 SCSI connected.  Backups were running fine to these tapes and backup drive with BackupExec.

One backup drive attached (though there was an Ultirum 460 at one point, which I removed), one protection group, file and HyperV data selected.  I ran a long term backup to tape, a few HyperV VMs backed up fine then it started on the file data from one of the servers, it got 1.2Tb into this fine and asked for another tape.  No problem, this was about 1.5TB onto a single tape so I was happy with that.  However the second tape was only in for a few minutes before it looked for another one, only 50-60Gb had gone onto this one!  Both tapes were Short Erased before being used.

So I figured it might just be old tapes so stuck in a brand new one and started a new backup.  Again a few HyperV images were on but when it got to the same file data it only got to 600Gb before looking for another tape.  Stuck another brand new tape in, 300Gb later it is now looking for a third tape!

So before I cancel this job or enter another tape, what troubleshooting can I do here?  Is there any way of seeing WHY DPM wants another tape?

Thanks,

Philip

We renamed/reshuffled 6 protection groups down to 2 before the end of last year to take better advantage of Co-Location. I suspect that I have a lot of unused tapes that are now offsite and stranded there.

I am showing 44 entries in  vw_DPM_Media (all looking like recognizable entries), and 88 entries intbl_MM_Media.
Are the 44 extra entries in tbl_MM_Media tapes that I can bring back as free tapes?  

Can I use the following to identify expired tapes that have "slipped off the edge" during our PG shuffle, and safely return them to use?:

I see this also identifies my free,expired tapes on site here (Location=1) which is a good thing, but I also am showing a couple tapes that have been in the drive apparently doing nothing for a long time.  It's 37 tapes I can't otherwise account for, so I'd like to start working through those before putting brand new tapes into my library to get eaten as free tapes.

Cheers,

-T