DPM2012 SP1 RU3 not recognizing cleaning tape
I have a Dell TL2000 tape library with two LTO5 drives and a LTO5 cleaning tape labelled as CLNUxxxx in slot 24. At the advice of Dell I have disabled auto-cleaning in the library and am trying to...
View ArticleDPM 2012 UR3
Hello,We recently moved our DPM Server from one Physical to Another. All systems are working correctly except for the Overdue Tapes Report. We did install UR3 that should have fixed that issue"Issue...
View ArticleAuto FREE when tape expired
Is there a way to auto set tape free when it detail inventory? So we don't need to go one by one set it free manually?
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 ArticleDPM only using 1 of 2 drives
Good day all,We have a HP MSL G3 4048 tape library with 2 drives. DPM however only sees it as 1 device to back up to when configuring protection groups. Under Management, Library, I see the Device HP...
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...
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Why is DPM 2012 R2 splitting this Co-located Protection Group Set across...
I have 10 protection groups that ran Saturday night. I have put information about them in the following table:I extracted the data in the table using Get-DPMProtectionGroup CmdLet and the job...
View ArticleTape Co-Location
I'm having a problem getting DPM configured to co-locate tapes the way I want.I have 6 protection groups, 3 configured for one Co-Located Protection Group Set, and 3 for another.I have a tape library...
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What is the recommended way to perform tape verification?
I currently have 12 protection groups with a total of about 30 protected members. I have the "Check backup for data integrity (time consuming operation)" option enabled for all jobs. The problem is...
View ArticleDPM was unable to access the file/folder(DPM 2012) when attempting to write...
Hello,I have ground to a halt with my DPM installations as I am getting a number of errors which I cannot seem to resolve ,of these (the most common) is that all my backups to Tape fail with 'DPM was...
View ArticleHow To Manage Tapes for Weekly and Monthly LT Backups and a Single Drive
HelloI need some advice on how to manage media reporting when there are certain tapes which I don't want to ever show as expired (ready for reuse) in DPM. Specifically, is there a way to modify the...
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DPM 2012 Reporting 9.2Tb Data Written to an LTO6 Tape.
I understood the "Data Written" to be the total amount of data written to the tape, so how can my LTO6 be reporting 9,201,199.88 Mb !LTO6 Tapes are 2.5Tb Native & 6Tb compressed.Can anyone explain...
View ArticleTape and backup managemnet
Hi,I have inherited DPM 2012 server which has 2 protection groups which also uses SAN storage for short-term backups and tape for long-term. Also tape co-location is enabled for efficiency.The problem...
View ArticleRecovery of of folders from imported tapes
Hi,I have been managing the backups here for 6 months now and I needed to re-inventory the annual tapes for the past years.Some of those tapes were from another DPM server.I had a recovery request and...
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DPM 2012 R2 Long Term not backing up on correct day
Howdy,I have created a Protection group w/both short and long term protections. The short term backup is to disk, Monday through Thursday, and the long term backup up is on Fridays to tape. (See images...
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DPM 2012 and DELL TL4000 tape library
Hi everyone,I was wondering if anyone can help me with this issue. I have a new DPM 2012 server and a new DELL TL4000 tape library; the library connects to DPM via iSCSI. I had DELL assist me with the...
View ArticleDPM2012 R2 UR3 - Error 0x80070057 for only one protection group
I currently have about 20 protection groups that backup to tape. All PGs have backed up to tape successfully in the past. Since Saturday, one of the PGs fails to backup to tape. The one that fails...
View ArticleSCDPM 2012 - backups are running dead slow
SCDPM 2012 - backups are running dead slow.Below is the details of software and hardware.Server OS : WIndows Server 2008 R2 DPM version : SCDPM 2012 , Version : 4.0.1920.0 Server Hardware : Prolinet BL...
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 test the Speed of Fiber connected Tape Library through DPM
Hi,I am using DPM 2012 R2 to take the Backup to Dell Tape Library connected through Fiber Channel on Physical Machines .we have two tape drives in Library , and i have checked the backup on both drives...
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