System Center: Data Protection Manager Engineering Team Blog

~ Andy Nadarewistsch Hi everyone Andy Nadarewistsch here with another DPM support tip for you. With this issue, after installing System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager (DPM 2012 R2) SQL Prep on a remote SQL instance that is already used by shared...

When you try to upgrade Microsoft System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager (DPM 2012) Service Pack 1 (SP1) to System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager (DPM 2012 R2), the upgrade fails and you receive the following error message: Error : DPM Setup...

~ Mike Jacquet Hello, Mike Jacquet here, and today I’d like to discuss a problem you may encounter after installing System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager from scratch or after performing an upgrade from DPM 2012 SP1. When you attempt to schedule...

After you change a protection group in Microsoft System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager (DPM 2012), the DPM service crashes with Event ID 917 and the console shuts down. This affects only protection groups that are configured for long-term protection...

You may discover that you cannot select the "Use the dedicated instance of SQL Server" option when you upgrade to Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 (DPM 2012) because the option is unavailable. When you point the installer...

With the General Availability of Windows Azure Backup we have made several reliability improvements to ensure you are able to meet your offsite cloud backup needs. There will be no impact to your backups as Windows Azure Backup moves from preview to General...

We published a new KB article that describes an update that is available for Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, and Microsoft System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager. This update improves the reliability of offsite...

The System Center 2012 SP1 UR3 package for DPM was re-released on 8-20-13 and fixes the two issues mentioned in our original article here: Important Update on DPM 2012 SP1 Update Rollup 3–Issues and Workarounds At this point you can simply install the...

This blog discusses solutions for the two issues,which might be encountered while protecting high churn databases using DPM. Incremental backup job triggered by DPM transfers transaction logs from SQL Server to the DPM Server. One of the issues...

~ Jitendra Mishra | Support Engineer Just a quick note on an issue we get here in DPM support every once in a while. There have been some cases where customers cannot change the mount point directory and at the same time they need to backup the mounted...

The recently released Update Rollup 3 for System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager Service Pack 1 (DPM 2012 SP1) has 2 issues that impact protected server agent upgrade and the ability to modify protection groups. In light of this discovery we have...

UR3 for System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager SP1 has been released and is now available for download. This update rollup contains fixes for the following issues: Issue 1 When you use a tape library that has many slots, the Microsoft System Center...

Our MVPs Steve Buchanan, Robert Hedblom, Islam Gomaa, and Flemming Riis wrote a great book on System Center Data Protection Manager and is now available in stores… check it out. http://www.packtpub.com/microsoft-system-center-data-protection-manager-2012...

Windows 2012 help customers in maximize their ROI of their hardware investments and manage them efficiently. Windows 2012 can support various Hyper-V deployments including Hyper-V over CSV, Hyper-V over Remote SMB and Hyper-V Stand alone. This provides...

Just a quick FYI on a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one talks about an issue where protection of virtual machines on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V cluster host fails with error ID 30156 “The system cannot find the path specified...

Just a quick FYI on a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one talks about an issue where attempts to restore a SharePoint default.aspx file using DPM Item Level Recovery (ILR) fails with internal error code: 0x80990E14. This is a fairly...

Microsoft’s own Chris Butcher posted a couple great videos that walk you through how to protect SharePoint 2010 using System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager. It’s a two part series which run about a half an hour each and you can check them out below...

Chris Butcher | Senior Support Escalation Engineer Hello again folks, this is Chris Butcher and I realized it has been too long since my last blog post. I recently worked with a customer and through our conversations realized that there is a lack of information...

Robert Hedblom, one of our Microsoft MVPs, gave a great presentation a few days ago on “Backup That Really Works” using multiple components of the System Center 2012 SP1 suite.  If you would like to watch the presentation, check it out on the Partner...

Windows 2012 improved the CSV clustering by increased scale and performance.  Windows 2012 clusters can be as big as 64 nodes and 8000 VMs.  Windows 2012 clusters can now have their storage on a Cluster Storage Volume or can be a remote SMB...

Michael Vargo | Senior Support Escalation Engineer UPDATED 1/6/2014 – New hotfixes available Some customers are experiencing failures on Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V hosts that utilize Cluster Shared Volumes (CSVs) when backing up virtual machines (VM...

Windows 2012 introduced deduplication feature that provides great savings for the file systems with lot of redundant data.  File systems in general, most of the data is cold meaning most of the files are not changed.  Windows 2012 deduplicates...

Technorati Tags: DPM 2012 SP1 VM Mobility private cloud protection One of the important features enabled in Windows 2012 is the ability to live migrate VMs anywhere.  Whether the VM migrating within a cluster, across clusters, standalone to standalone...

System Center 2012 SP1 - DPM has enabled data protection for Windows 2012 Private Cloud deployments.  Customers have been looking for a way to exclude some of the VHD/VHDX that have temp data or downloads or page files which have no value @ recovery...

Update Rollup 2 for Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is now available and includes the following updates for Data Protection Manager: Issue 1: An express full backup job in System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 may stop responding on a Hyper...