Tape Library went offline from one DPM, no change to the Tape Library.
I have two DPM units sharing the same Tape Library (Dell ML6000). This has been working for over a year. The DPM-2 "owns" the Library, and shares it with DPM-3. DPM-3 now shows the Library as...
View ArticleProtection Agent failure error during backup to tape with DPM 2010.
DPM TechNet Forum,We are experiencing an intermittent error when backing up to tape using DPM 2010 (with latest QFE roll-up applied)."The operation failed because of a protection agent failure. (ID 998...
View ArticleDrive need to clean
Is that possible to make more smarter to pause the backup and clean the drive and use other drive to continue the backup? Rather than completely failing entire backup? Or is that possible to have DPM...
View ArticleTape backups failing, tape drive disappears from DPM
Hi,We are experiencing the following issues with our DPM backup.The backups to tape are failing on a daily basis. Every time the backup fails, the tape drive has disappeared from DPM (but not from the...
View ArticleDoes DPM 2012 support variable block size when backup to tapes
When I did backup job to tapes with DPM 2012, I noticed that DPM uses fixed block size.So I was wondering, does DPM support variable block size instead of fixed block size when backup to tapes?Thanks
View ArticleDPM Tape Backup Terminology.
I am struggling to understand some points on DPM Tape backups functionality. Before I made changes to DPM tape infra... I need to understand below points. please someone clear these.... Thanks in...
View ArticleAutomatically restart failed tape backup due to Cleaning
Enviroment = DPM 2012 SP1 on 20012 R2, database SQL 2012Tape Library = Dell PowerVault TL2000Tape Drive = IBM ULT3580 -TD4---------------------------------------------------------------Issue: The...
View ArticleDPM 2012 R2 - ID 2019 Details: An existing connection was forcibly closed by...
Almost all of our backups are running and completing fine but we have 4 tape job's that will begin to backup then error out at about the same point all the time with the same Error Details (ID 2019...
View ArticleHP MSL2024 1 LTO-5 3000 SAS Tape Lbry support SCDPM 2010?
system center data protection manager 2012 if supported, but I find if supported by the System Center Data Protection Manager 2010. anyone know?
View ArticleShort-term backup to tape
Hi,What are the pros and cons of using tape (VTL) for short-term backups in DPM 2012 R2?The reason this might be an option is that we are using a Virtual Tape Library (EMC DataDomain) which provides...
View ArticleTape within retention period needs to be recataloged
Hi.I have a retention period for Short-Term Protection of 21 days and for Long-Term Protection of 99 Years. I do a tape-backup every month. When I try to restore from a tape older than around 30 days I...
View ArticleSince having two tape drives in our library, tape jobs appear to fail (DPM is...
I use DPM 2010 with a Dell TL2000 LTO5 tape library attached which now has 2 tape drives in it. This works usually with no problem, however we do usually get a failure for one or two jobs several...
View ArticleRecovery points and consistency checks are failing for one disk on file...
Good day! I've built a new DPM 2012 R2 server and migrated or re-created jobs from my older 2012 SP1 DPM servers as trying to upgrade them was not working out. The DPM R2 server is running great...
View ArticleHow to find tape size capacity?
Stupid question, but I have hadn't physical access to DPM server as it is in USA and I am in India. We are using Hewlett Packard MSL G3 Series library library attached to DPM server. I want to know how...
View ArticleSome free tapes are not used by backup job - dpm 2012 r2
Hi,I have DPM 2012 R2 with IBM TotalStorage 3572 tape library. It is 8 slot tape library. All was working with initial 8 tapes I added to tape library. I had one Protection group to be archived on 8...
View ArticleWhy so many tapes for DPM database?
Good morning,Apologies for what might be a stupid question, I am rather inexperienced with DPM and have not had any formal training with it.We have a protection group which covers the DPM database...
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DPM marks tape as offsite ready before getting full
Hi,We have installed DPM 2012 R2 and configured only one protection group with 2 days RR on disk and below RR on tape.Tapes are LTO 6.Facing the issue that DPM marks tape as offsite ready before...
View ArticleDPM 2010 showing backup to tape failed, but tape backups are working
A few months ago, we started to see alerts in DPM 2010 that the backup to tape failed. However, the library shows the backups are in fact working.Previously, the backup to tape would show a green...
View ArticleIBM TS3200 MTN : 3573-L4U Problem with Windows Server 2008 R2
when i installed this Tape Library connected with the server FC windows can not find the Medium changer also i have updated tape windows driver, windows already see the medium changer and no removable...
View ArticleDPM 2012 as a virtual server and FC connections to tape
Hello everyone,We're about to install DPM 2012 R2 as a virtual server in a VMware 5.1 cluster.My current DPM 2010, which is a physical server, connects to a DELL PowerVault 3600T using FC to connect to...
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