DPM 2007 message: DPM failed to create the system state backup. If you are trying to create the system state of a Windows 2008 Server operating system, verify that the Windows Server Backup (WSB) is installed, and that there is enough free disk space on the protected server to store the system state...
Back in june i posted this blogpost on what to expect from DPM2007 SP1 . Some weeks ago I attended a session hosted by the Belgian system center user group about DPM where there was a slide on what will be included in SP1. SCR protection for Exchange 2007 support for mirrored Databases and for SQL2008...
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Hi! Just did another implementation of a DELL Equallogic PS5000XV iscsi array which is very nice and powerfull equipment well suited for the virtualisation project I'm currently working on. I just had a "few thingies" I wanted to try out offline so I booted up my virtual lab and started...
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Jason buffington interviews Exchange MVP Devin L. Ganger on DPM 2007, nice overview, nice comparisation with 3th party products, I love the part “we didn’t remove any functionality, the product just ‘evolved’ “. Funny :-) watch the video here source
run the following command to enable colocation of data on tape on the DPM Powershell window Set-DPMGlobalProperty -DpmServer <DPM Server Name> -OptimizeTapeUsage $true To disable tape colocation run the following command on DPM Powershell window Set-DPMGlobalProperty -DpmServer <DPM Server Name>...
This Data Protection Manager Update Package consists of three separate updates. To install each update, follow these steps: Install the hotfix rollup package on the server that is running Data Protection Manager 2007. To do this, run the DataProtectionManager2007-KB949779.exe file on the server. Note...
I allready mentioned it a few days ago but now the feature pack for DPM 2007 has been made public.The DPM 2007 Update Rollup is a feature pack that includes previously released hotfixes alongside several new features aimed to enhance overall applicability and usability of DPM. Added features include...
SCDPM is a really cool product and I like it a lot (hell yeah!) but sometimes you just wish it could do a little bit more. So there is stuff comming up ! A rollup will be released in the last half of June (It will be available on the Download Center) 1. multiple protection groups per tape : hooray !...
Some time ago my customer and myself joined the IT-PRO MOMENTUM program in order to accelerate our roll-out of system center virtual machine manager and system center data protection manager . And last week we made a small video about this project that will be appearing later on Technet Edge i believe...
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I was deploying DPM 2007 agents to servers and got this error : can't connect to service control manager: ID 277 After doing some troubleshooting i hunted this problem down to this cause: The servers I wanted to install these agents on didn't have A-records in the correct DNS zone. Adding these...
Here's my review of the Techdays 2008 that took place in Ghent this year. The short version :-) Day1: the launch I hosted the SQLUG booth and did some chitchat with other communityleaders and members, some customers and some friends... Day 2 : Techdays01 taking the bus to the location i heard people...
During the techdays 2008 in Ghent i attended a nice session by Jason buffington on SCDPM 2007. I noticed he was using a synthetic tapedrive because all was running in a virtual environment and i hoped he didn't have to drag a real tape drive library around the world. So after the session I had a...