Microsoft data protection manager backup to tape

In addition, you can't change the name of a protected computer and associate the existing replicas and recovery points with the computer when it is re-protected. Workaround : We recommend that you don't change the name of a protected computer. If you must change the name of a protected computer, then first remove the data sources on the computer from protection.

Then protect the data source on the computer after it has a new name. Issue : Ensure you update the time zone correctly if you change it for a protected resource. Workaround : DPM automatically identifies the time zone of a protected computer during installation of the protection agent. If a protected computer is moved to a different time zone after protection is configured, ensure that you change the computer time in Control Panel.

Then update the time zone in the DPM database. Mount point metadata - A protection group can contain data with mount points.

In this case DPM protects the mounted volume that is the target of the mount point, but it doesn't protect the mount point metadata. When you recover data containing mount points, you'll need to manually recreate your mount point hierarchy. System Volume Information folder. To protect system information for a computer you'll need to select the computer's system state as the protect group member.

You can also protect the following workloads in workgroups and untrusted domains using NTLM or certificate authentication:. Workaround : If you want to protect a workload that isn't in a trusted domain, see Prepare computers in workgroups and untrusted domains for exact details of what's supported and what authentication is required.

Only file data volumes, shares, folders can be backed up incrementally. Workaround : Use disk or a combination of disk and cloud storage Azure Backup for short-term backup of these workloads. Issue : DPM doesn't support multiple long-term backup goals if you only have a single tape drive. Only file-consistent snapshots are supported.

Issue : In order to backup Hyper-V server clusters they must be located in the same domain as the DPM server or in a trusted or child domain. In the Recovery Wizard, the Review Recovery Selection screen shows the selected items to be recovered.

On the Specify Recovery Options screen, if you want to enable network bandwidth throttling, click Modify. To leave network throttling disabled, click Next.

No other options on this wizard screen are available for VMware VMs. If you choose to modify the network bandwidth throttle, in the Throttle dialog, select Enable network bandwidth usage throttling to turn it on.

Once enabled, configure the Settings and Work Schedule. On the Select Recovery Type screen, click Next. You can only recover your file s or folder s to a network folder. On the Specify Destination screen, click Browse to find a network location for your files or folders. DPM creates a folder where all recovered items are copied. When you select a location for the recovered files or folder, the details for that location Destination, Destination path, and available space are provided. On the Specify Recovery Options screen, choose which security setting to apply.

You can opt to modify the network bandwidth usage throttling, but throttling is disabled by default. On the Summary screen, review your settings and click Recover to start the recovery process. The Recovery status screen shows the progression of the recovery operation. With earlier versions of DPM, parallel backups were performed only across protection groups.

All VMWare delta replication jobs would run in parallel. By default, number of jobs to run in parallel is set to 8. You can modify the number of jobs by using the registry key as shown below not present by default, you need to add :. You can modify the number of jobs to a higher value. If you set the jobs number to 1, replication jobs run serially. To increase the number to a higher value, you must consider the VMWare performance.

Considering the number of resources in use and additional usage required on VMWare vSphere Server, you should determine the number of delta replication jobs to run in parallel. Also, this change will affect only the newly created Protection Groups. For existing Protection groups you must temporarily add another VM to the protection group.

This should update the Protection Group configuration accordingly. You can remove this VM from the Protection Group after the procedure is completed. The configuration script ExcludeDisk. To exclude disk, navigate to Bin folder and run the ExcludeDisk. Else, the script returns success, but does not update the exclusion list.

Ensure there are no jobs in progress before stopping the service. Once you configure the protection for this VM, excluded disk will not be listed during protection. If you are performing these steps for already protected VM, you need to run the consistency check manually after adding the disk for exclusion.

Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. D Launch Windows Azure Backup - then register the server by browsing to the vault credential file you downloaded in step B.

The PowerShell commands below will detail a single recovery from a backup vault that has backups from two DPM servers. B Make a new protection group. Under Select group member , expand the resources under the server hosting the DPM database. C Select the protection type Disk or Tape , and optionally Online if supported. D Enter the short term goals.

For disk, you can have express full backups as often as every 30 minutes. E Finish the Protection Group Wizard. Protection is started once the initial recovery point is made. Recovery should be very straight forward since you are recovering from a fully intact and running secondary DPM server. Recover the database like you would recover any other protected data source using the Recovery Wizard. The required switches for Dpmbackup.

If you have a mixture of DPM servers, Microsoft recommends using the full syntax in all cases to be sure the backups work. It is also recommended that you use a common local target location so that it is consistent across all DPM servers. On a remote SQL server, the dpmbackup.

Change the backupdir variable in the script to a local location to store the DPM database backups. Be sure there is adequate space for the frequency and duration of the backups based on the database size. You can enable NTFS compression on the target folder to help save space.

BAK names. BAK echo. B Using Windows Task Scheduler, schedule backupdb. C Check that the backup files are created after the scheduled time.

The batch file will keep as many backups as you schedule to run each day because the dpmdb. The script deletes the oldest backup files automatically after a week. Setting up a Maintenance Plan to Backup Databases. A simple example of a protection configuration consists of a DPM server and a protected computer.

The computer is protected when you install a DPM protection agent on the computer and add its data to a protection group. Protection agents track changes to protected data and transfer the changes to the DPM server. The protection agent also identifies data on a computer that can be protected and is involved in the recovery process.

You must install a protection agent on each computer that you want to protect by using DPM. Protection groups are used to manage the protection of data sources on computers. A protection group is a collection of data sources that share the same protection configuration. The protection configuration is the collection of settings that are common to a protection group, such as the protection group name, protection policy, disk allocations, and replica creation method.

DPM stores a separate replica for each protection group member in the storage pool. A protection group member can be any of the following data sources:. In DPM, for a file volume or share on a server, the protection agent uses a volume filter and the change journal to determine which files have changed and then performs a checksum procedure for these files to synchronize only the changed blocks. During synchronization, these changes are transferred to the DPM server and then applied to the replica to synchronize the replica with the data source.

The following figure illustrates the file synchronization process. If a replica becomes inconsistent with its data source, DPM generates an alert that specifies which computer and which data sources are affected. To resolve the problem, the administrator repairs the replica by initiating a synchronization with consistency check, also known as simply a consistency check, on the replica.

During a consistency check, DPM performs a block-by-block verification and repairs the replica to bring it back into consistency with the data source. You can schedule a daily consistency check for protection groups or initiate a consistency check manually. At regular intervals that you can configure, DPM creates a recovery point for the protection group member. A recovery point is a version of the data from which data can be recovered.

For application data, after the replica is created by DPM, changes to volume blocks that belong to application files are tracked by the volume filter.

How changes are transferred to the DPM server depends on the application and the type of synchronization. The operation that is labeled synchronization in DPM Administrator Console is analogous to an incremental backup, and it creates an accurate reflection of the application data when combined with the replica.

Each express full backup creates a recovery point for application data. If the application supports incremental backups, each synchronization also creates a recovery point.

The synchronization type supported by each type of application data is summarized as follows:. Recovery points are created for each synchronization and express full backup. SQL Server databases that are log-shipped, in read-only mode, or that use the simple recovery model do not support incremental backup.

Recovery points are created for each express full backup only. For all other SQL Server databases, synchronization transfers a transaction log backup, and recovery points are created for each incremental synchronization and express full backup.