Backup on Tape working on wrong DATE
I just noticeda problemthat I did not before.I think ithad toappearforthe upgrade ofdpm 2010todpm2012, becausebeforeit workedcorrectly,except additionof PS in the PGnothing has changed on the PG.I made...
View Articleif a tape is FULL, i must see "full" in dpm library managment??
hiin my tape managment of dpm 2010 i see for each tape in my autoloader:"nothing" or "expires" or "ready for offsite". My question is if i must see written also when a tape if "full" , so ready for...
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 2012, how to set the cleaner tape through script?
I've tried to use the line below, to script a cleaning tape but nothing seems to work.Set-DPMTape [-Tape]<Media[]>-Cleaner...
View Articletape detailed inventory failed
My backup is actually working fine. But there is one moment that i don't really understand. Every time backup doing its job - i get "tape detailed inventory failed"/ The error says that its failed,...
View ArticleUsing DPM 2010 with a Dell PowerVault 124T, the PowerVault falls asleep and...
The 124T is connected via a SCSI cable and an ethernet cable (for management), DPM can see it and take inventory of the tapes, but after a few hours, the drive will freeze up. It won't even ping, and I...
View ArticleDPM 2010 Recover VHD from tape
We are using DPM 2010 on Windows 2008 R2 backing up various virtual machines at the machine level and physical machines at the volume level. We were trying to restore a VHD, this worked when the backup...
View ArticleDPM 2012 SP1 runs Yearly backup again
To day I did see that DPM is now doing a Yerly backup again? was just 1 month ago it was don for 2012.Insteed of montly backup the Yerly is now in progress, a glitch in the program?Have checked and...
View ArticleRestoring from Tapes in DPM 2012 SP1
Hello,I am looking at restoring from Tapes in DPM and I am a bit confused. I have an option to *copy* a backup to a network location. Does DPM not have the ability to look though a Drive I backed up...
View ArticleDPM 2010 - tape backups
Hello, I’m very new to DPM, and have previously used Netbackup and backup exec, so please bear with me. At the moment I'm playing around with how DPM uses tapes.I have one DPM server with a single...
View ArticleDPM2012 tape usage and labels
Hi,I've recently installed DPM2012 on Server 2008r2 to manage long term backups. Unfortunately I'm new to tape backups however,most this have been pretty straight forward and logical. Two things I...
View ArticleTapes not expiring in time for backup
I have our virtual servers set to backup to tape once a week (short-term backup), to virtual tapes (200 of them), and it's set to do a copy from the virtual tapes to physical tape once a month. The...
View ArticleDPM 2010 Tape colocation problems
Hello,I'm having problems with colocating 2 protection groups to one tape.I have enabled colocation of tapes.I have set TapeWritePeriodRange to 0,9I have set ExpiryToleranceRange to 1 (100%)Both PGs...
View ArticleSetting up Tape Library Sharing fails on DPM 2012
Environment: 3 DPM 2012 SP1 UR1 (4.1.3333.0) ServersEach one has its own SQL Server 2012 instance. We didn't use the default SQL 2008 R2 instance but we preferred to pre-install SQL Server 2012 for...
View Articletape inventories run against nonexistent tape libraries
I accidentally left my DPM server on while working on the fibre channel zoning to let my DPM server see my tape library; as a result, it sees some bogus tape libraries. I disabled them in the GUI and...
View Articlecyclic redundancy check DELL TL 2000
Hello,how can I force or terminate the "cyclic redundancy check" for tapes?When I change the magazines it will work for one or two tapes, but for the third tape for example it will give me this error,...
View ArticleDPM short term tape backup
Hello there,Currently i am using DPM 2010 with standalone tape drive. I create a protection group and scheduled the short term daily backup to tape. And the retention period is 1 week. My question,...
View ArticleBackups Fails - The request could not be performed because of an I/O device...
Hi,i am getting below error while trying to do any type of jog(erase, backups, even inventory), i tried with changing the tapes still i am getting same errorDPM encountered a critical error while...
View ArticleDPM 2012 SP1 With TL-4000 Tape Library Device Error 0x8007045D
I'm using DPM 2012 SP-1 on a Dell PowerEdge R-520 connected to a Dell TL-4000 tape library via an iSCSI bridge (iSCSI to SAS). The tape library is using the most recent Dell (IBM) drivers for both tape...
View ArticleImporting tapes into the primary DPM server database
Hello,DPM 2010.We have two DPM servers. At the moment DPM02 is our secondary protection for DPM01 and performs all our tape backups.Soon, we will be decommissioning DPM02 and will only be using our...
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