The ramblings of a computer geek
Tapes are basically sticky tape and rust, therefore they are liable to break especially your weekly rotation ones, just because they get wear and tear. When this happens and the tape is no longer able to be used, we need to remove it from DPM to stop it appearing the in the tape request reports. … Read more
When Backup Sharepoint 2007, with DPM 2010, it catalougues MOSS items every 24 hours , if you need to force this operation to be able to restore item you can use powershell command. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff634233.aspx. Note this operation happens out of band from the normal backup, sometimes it will fail even though the backup is successful. … Read more
After a power cut, (before the UPS was installed!), on booting back up the DPM 2007 server, the server showed loads of replica disks saying “Volume Missing”, before i crying, it tried the following to get DPM to pick them back up and it appeared to work ok: Run the command below to enable auto-detect … Read more
I was adding more storage to our DPM 2007 server. We currently have a MD1000 with 15 x 1TB SATA disks, but i needed to add some more storage so i hooked up a second MD1000 with 15 x 1TB SATA disks. Configured the RAID groups and presented the storage to the server. In DPM … Read more
PROBLEM: The operation failed because of a protection agent failure. (ID 998 Details: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host (0x80072746)) SYMPTOMS: Had this problem occouring when trying backup to tape. The majority of the tape backup jobs worked fine, then on two of the disks on two of the servers it … Read more