Recover VM from tape but nothing happens
Since we only introduced tape few weeks ago, today i decided to test restoring from tape.I picked a VM and selected the recovery point date (tape), right click recover to network location, the recovery...
View ArticleMonthly and Yearly backups not working for Protection Group?
HiWe have a Protection Group with 160 members currently attached to it. The group has the following customized Recovery Points:-- 1 recovery point every 1 day for the last 2 weeks, 1 recovery point...
View ArticleDPM - Reading Imported Tape - Fails / Crashes MMC
Recently reinstalled Windows Server 2012 R2 , SQL Server 2012 & SCDPM 2012 R2 with UR7.After this I've installed got everything working as I wanted it and believed everything going smoothly, until...
View ArticleOverland Tape Drive Compatibilty with DPM 2012 SP1
Hi Is the following tape drive compatible with DPM 2012 SP1 ?Overland LTO5 tape drive OV-LTO101006 RegardsClaude
View ArticleVTL for testing
Hi there.Does anybody know a VTL Software which is for free to play around / learning / testing tape library handling with DPM?Thanks in advanceRegards Olaf
View ArticleHELP: Need list of failed backups jobs from January 1st, 2015
I am working on a project and I need to provide a list of backups jobs that failed from January 1st, 2015. Is there a command I can run on the Data Protection Management console or an option in System...
View ArticleTape drive disappeared from autoloader
DPM Forum,We have an HP 1x8 G2 autoloader with an internal LTO5 tape drive. We are running Microsoft DPM 2010 (latest build) and have been experiencing tape backup failures for the past week. When...
View ArticleDPM 2012 Backup to Tape failes
Just got an error when backing up to tape.The operation failed because of a protection aent failure ID 998 Details: The parameter is incorrect 0x80070057Searching the error i get alot of hits that says...
View ArticleDPM error ID:30123 - Error recovering data from tape
Hi,Today, I'm trying to restore backup from tape, but 2 minutes later since I press "Read tape to show recovery elements" DPM drops the next error (spanish sorry):File copy failed due to an I/O...
View ArticleFound an issue rescheduling tape jobs in DPM 2010
Scenario: Tape jobs are scheduled for today. I can see them by running a report in 'Monitoring' - 'Jobs'- 'Scheduled Tape Jobs'I see I have too many tape jobs all scheduled for the same time. Normally...
View ArticleHow can I set DPM 2010 Recovery Goals to mark a daily tape as "offsite ready"...
DPM Forum,How can I set my Recovery Goals in DPM 2010 so that a daily backup tape is marked as "offsite ready" the following day after the backup has completed?I recently had to remove Long Term...
View ArticleMissing EOD marks
Hello,We have recently installed a Quantum Scaler i6000 tape library with IBM LTO6 Drives.We're receiving errors from the tape drives regarding missing EOD Errors, however the DPM backup jobs, and...
View ArticleDPM2012 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 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 ArticleDPM2012 R2 and VTL
HiWe want to use VTL with DPM 2012 R2 instead of D2D backup.Does DPM 2012 R2 with VTL protects workloads like Exchange, Hyper-V,SQL and SharePoint for the snapshot backup?What are the Pros and Cons of...
View ArticleDPM tape backup migration
HelloIs there a way to migrate an agent from one DPM server to another along with the historical tape backups? I can see a disk backup migration by creating a primary-secondary DPM sync or by manually...
View ArticleData Backup from Disk to Tape
Hi I want to create one Protection Group in which once the Backup done to Disk after that a copy of the such backup also copied to Disk .. is this feasible through DPM...in other word Is any way to...
View ArticleRestore tapes created using tape library with stand-alone drive
My assumption is that you would be able to restore a tape created with a tape library using a stand-alone drive because DPM supports stand-alone drives. But I am trying to see if anyone knows if this...
View ArticleDPM 2012 R2 and IBM/Lenovo Tape
Hello forum members,I have a question:Is the tape drive in the below configuration with "Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2012 R2" Compatible? The "System x3650 M5" Server is an external enclosure"1U...
View ArticleFree / Expired / Offsite ready tapes ...
Good day to all. Very new to DPM (former TSM admin here, so don't hold that against me). Specifics first ... DPM 2012 R2 running on Windows 2012. Dell TL4000 tape library with 2 drives and ~40 slots...
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