What actually gets written to tape by long-term protection?
I've been reviewing our long term recovery goals and am confused by the Customize Recovery Goal screen. The only documentation I can find for it only gives brief descriptions and is for 2010, I'm using...
View ArticleCo-Location
HiI am using co-location groups for my tape backups and I have around 100 tapes. I would like to find out how I can identify which tapes belong to what co-location group.At the moment I go into...
View ArticleDPM 2012R2 seems to be unable to erase or re-write tapes created by the...
Hello everyone. We're using SCDPM for quite a while, together with IBM TS3200 tape library and LTO-5 tapes. No encryption is used here, and it always seemed to go fine with the long-term tape backup...
View ArticleTape always in use (Firestreamer)
Hi,we use DPM 2010 with a Firestreamer tape library.Each day, I get three messages saying that a detailled inventory couldn't be done, because of the reason 3316: the tape isn't in its slot but in a...
View ArticleDPM - 2012 R2 - Incomplete VHD Recovery (AVHD instead of VHD)
Hi!I want to recover a VHD file from a HyperV VM, backed up on tape.The recovery ends with success, but i can't see the recovered VHD of 7GB.Instead we have an AVHD file with a size of 670 KB.DPM says...
View ArticleLong Term Storage with VTL (Firestreamer)
Hi AllI'm currently in the planning stages of DPM 2012 R2 and am looking at eliminating tapes for long term/archival purposes by using a VTL solution. I have a trial of Firestreamer and am testing it...
View ArticleErasing a tape - full erase or "short" erase - does it matter?
Microsoft DPM Forum,What would cause one to use a Full Erase for a tape versus a "Short" erase?Does a short erase erase just the header information where a full erase erases everything from the tape...
View ArticleDPM 2012 R2 - Creating a CSR for a Microsoft CA for tape encryption
Hi All, this seems to be a topic that does the rounds and only ever seems to be answered with self signed certificate answers.I want to implement tape encryption in DPM 2012 R2 using a cert from our...
View ArticleError id:24025
Hi, I’m trying to configure DPM Serverto write data to tape. I have IBM ULTRIUM 5 HH 3580 TAPE DRIVE and I dont have inactive add tape (I\E port) In IBM program to manage the tape everything is ok...
View ArticleTape marked as offsite ready due to a single protection group left behind on...
Hi,we're using DPM2012, we have it on two nodes, the first backs up to disk and then offsite to the second server which goes to disk + tape.In general tape colocation works however I have a slight...
View ArticleDPM writing to tapes marked as offsite ready?
I'm writing to tape using a Quantum SuperLoader3 which holds 8 tapes. Last week I ejected 2 tapes that were marked as offsite ready and replaced them with blank ones. Over the weekend the blank ones...
View ArticleDPM 2012 - Backup to tape failure (ID 998) The parameter is incorrect...
Hi Gents,Yesterday, out of the blue I started to get the following error’s when running a Tape backup of file data:-The operation failed because of a protection agent failure. (ID 998 Details: The...
View ArticleHow to disable Tape Inventory?
I have Monthly backup job which writes around 2TB data to a single tape from different PGs (CO-located to a single Tape)Since 2 TB data is from 16 Protection groups so its take around two days to...
View ArticleDPM2012 R2 - cannot free tapes for deleted protection group
I've deleted one of the protection group with option to delete protected data.But tapes are still not set as free - and I cannot do it manually - I have constant message that tape is a part of...
View ArticleDPM 2010 - Getting errors when viewing reports
Microsoft DPM Forum,I am getting the following error when attempting to view reports in DPM 2010:An error occurred during client rendering. An error has occurred during report processing....
View ArticleTape Co-location (using lot of tapes)
I am a new user of DPM and using DPM 2012, having trouble to co-locate more than one protection group in one tape. I created co-location on tape and include four protection groups in co-location PG...
View ArticleCannot Enable Tape Co-Location
Sorry if this is a double post, I thought I submitted last night but cannot find it today.I have just stopped all protection on my DPM 2007 Windows 2003 32-bit server, un-installed DPM, renamed the...
View ArticlePG prompting for new tape
Manually running some tape archives from each of the various protection groups on our DPM2010 server (tape drive is standalone Quantum LTO5 - 1.5/3.0 TB). Co-location is enabled. Everything backs up...
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Tape Library not inventorying all slots.
I have replaced my old Quantum Super Loader 3 with a new one. I reused one of tape magazines from the old library in the new one. Needless to say I ended up on the well trodden path of DPM 2010 now...
View ArticleGetting error during creation of recovery point and synchronization
hi alli am using DPM 2012 R2 . i am getting following error during recovery point creation.No recovery point was created, either because synchronization has not occurred since the last recovery point...
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