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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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Why good scripts may start to fail on you for instance with timestamps like...
You may have scripts running fine since early DPM2007 days but start to show unexpected results with DPM2010. This blog explains what is likely happening and how to resolve that. Typically information...
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About defining DPM protection from CLI
Those with interest in modifying and creating DPM protection from CLI probably appreciate this otherwise there is little sense in reading further I guess. Those that seek to save and recreate...
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Protect, Unprotect, Protect, Unprotect – Understanding how DPM 2010 retention...
With special thanks to Fahd Kamal for the backgrounder content.Imagine that you are experimenting with DPM 2010. You protect some data, and then you remove that protection group. Then, showing DPM to...
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How to use SAN recovery option and mapping data source volumes to Windows disks
Say you want to use the DPM “SAN recovery” option. This requires storage management steps for which it is useful to know which Windows disks (LUN’s) hold the associated DPM volumes for a given data...
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CLI script: Create protection groups for Disk based backups
The following script creates a protection group with disk based protection, for a simple folder. It can be easily extended to add more data sources of different kinds – like Microsoft Exchange, SQL,...
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DPM PowerShell Script -- invoking a Consistency Check
By design, DPM 2007 should be ‘fire and forget’ – meaning that after initial replication, data changes will automatically and routinely replicate. However, due to a variety of external factors, the...
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CLI Script: To remove all datasources in inactive protection state
The attached script removes all inactive datasources under a given DPM server. It provides options to remove inactive datasources on disk/tape/both. Save this as a .ps1 file and invoke it from inside...
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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 CLI Tips 'n Tricks: Powershell Basics
The scripts posted in this blog require knowledge of Powershell and DPM cmdlets. So we thought we would present some tips ‘n tricks to become power users! IntroductionThe first difference between any...
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CLI Script: Auto re-running consistency checks
Some customers had non-DPM issues, like network issues because of which consistency check (CC) jobs failed too often. For the benefit of them, we have added a script that would re-try CC until it...
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DPM CLI: Quick reference help
While using the DPM Management Shell, one would like to have a list of all cmdlets and its short help for quick reference. Also, we heard it would be useful to group the various cmdlets by the function...
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DPM CLI Tips 'n Tricks: Powershell Basics - Part II
Tab CompletionThe most fascinating part of DPM Management Shell is Tab Completion of cmdlets. By learning the common verbs in Powershell (like Get, Set, Start etc.), a Windows or an Exchange admin can...
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CLI Script: To generate status reports
The attached script generates a comprehensive report of the status of all backups and the storage utilization for each Exchange Server that is protected by DPM on a per SG basis.
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CLI Script: DPM status report
The following script generates a comprehensive report of failures and the storage utilization for each Exchange Server that is protected by DPM on a per SG basis.
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CLI Script: Script to generate DPM configuration report
The attached script generates a report of the mapping between each Exchange Server, the backup Protection Groups and its associated SGs. Krishna Mangipudi
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Hyper-V Protection with DPM 2010 Beta - How to automatically protect new...
We had a great question come into the DPM Newsgroup recently. How do I automatically protect new VMs added to a Hyper-V host using DPM?In any virtualized environment, adding new VMs is a frequent...
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Recover-Recoverable Item
Its 6:00PM. You were supposed to leave at 5:00PM. Your boss catches you as you walk out the door and says he needs a file restored for a presentation first thing in the morning. You say, “No...
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How to create and delete recovery points for DPM via PowerShell
Knowing how to manipulate DPM by way of PowerShell can come in handy in many situations. For example, I had a case to where I was troubleshooting the DPM console that was crashing and there was a...
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Checking LDM database space usage
When should I be concerned with this?Usually not at all and the DPM2010 RTM release will check actual LDM consumption providing an early warning. Neither will DPM2010 consume all LDM space allowing...
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