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DPM Installation: Configuring Libraries
Configuring Tape Libraries (Continued from previous post) Last week’s DPM snip covered basic configuration of tape libraries and also mentioned if drives from a tape library are listed as...
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CLI Script: Force mark tape as free
This script allows a user to mark any tape as free so that it is available for protection by DPM. Tapes which have unexpired data cannot be marked as free from the GUI but sometimes (esp. while...
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CLI Script: Manual detailed inventory of unknown tapes
The following script runs detailed inventory on all unknown tapes in all the libraries attached to the specified DPM server. Save this script as a .ps1 file and run it. Usage and examples of scripts...
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CLI Script: To recover a DPM replica volume from data stored in tape
When a disaster occurs, and you lose your replica volume for any datasource, you could re-seed the replica from the backed-up data you have in tape. This little script initializes replica from a tape...
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DPM 2007 Rollup Update -- NOW AVAILABLE
We are very excited to announce that the ‘Rollup Update’ for System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 is now available.There are new workloads to be protected, as well as new features in this update,...
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Enabling/Disabling co-location of data on Tape
With DPM 2007 Feature Pack (KB949779), we have added support for media co-location. With this feature, you can achieve better tape utilization by co-locating data from multiple protection groups with...
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Replacing tape drive assignments
Imagine you got a replacement library for a broken one, or one with larger capacity to partition or share between DPM servers but anyway shows up as another tape drive. For discussion sake we say...
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The search for DPM tape utilities stops here…
This solution combines several existing tape related scripts with enriched functionality. The short list is shown in the DPMTapeUtil user guide illustration on the right. You can download the script...
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Erasing unsupported tapes & utility automation sample
You may encounter tapes in DPM libraries that are written with an unsupported block size and first need to be erased because DPM cannot evaluate such tapes and therefore will not do anything to it. The...
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DPM Installation: Configuring Libraries
Configuring Tape Libraries (Continued from previous post) Last week’s DPM snip covered basic configuration of tape libraries and also mentioned if drives from a tape library are listed as...
View ArticleClik here to view.
CLI Script: Force mark tape as free
This script allows a user to mark any tape as free so that it is available for protection by DPM. Tapes which have unexpired data cannot be marked as free from the GUI but sometimes (esp. while...
View ArticleClik here to view.
CLI Script: Manual detailed inventory of unknown tapes
The following script runs detailed inventory on all unknown tapes in all the libraries attached to the specified DPM server. Save this script as a .ps1 file and run it. Usage and examples of scripts...
View ArticleClik here to view.
CLI Script: To recover a DPM replica volume from data stored in tape
When a disaster occurs, and you lose your replica volume for any datasource, you could re-seed the replica from the backed-up data you have in tape. This little script initializes replica from a tape...
View ArticleClik here to view.
DPM 2007 Rollup Update -- NOW AVAILABLE
We are very excited to announce that the ‘Rollup Update’ for System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 is now available.There are new workloads to be protected, as well as new features in this update,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Enabling/Disabling co-location of data on Tape
With DPM 2007 Feature Pack (KB949779), we have added support for media co-location. With this feature, you can achieve better tape utilization by co-locating data from multiple protection groups with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Replacing tape drive assignments
Imagine you got a replacement library for a broken one, or one with larger capacity to partition or share between DPM servers but anyway shows up as another tape drive. For discussion sake we say...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The search for DPM tape utilities stops here…
This solution combines several existing tape related scripts with enriched functionality. The short list is shown in the DPMTapeUtil user guide illustration on the right. You can download the script...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Erasing unsupported tapes & utility automation sample
You may encounter tapes in DPM libraries that are written with an unsupported block size and first need to be erased because DPM cannot evaluate such tapes and therefore will not do anything to it. The...
View ArticleUpdate Rollup 10 for System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager is now...
Update Rollup 10 for Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager (DPM 2012 R2) is now available to download. Issues that are fixed in this update rollup If you try to exclude a page file...
View ArticleFour simple steps to backup VMware VMs using SC DPM
System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) is well recognized in the industry for protection of Microsoft workloads and environments. It protects key Microsoft workloads such as SQL, SharePoint and...
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