Host-level backup failing
Hi. We have a 2012R2 Hyper-V cluster that is being backed up by DPM 2012 R2 UR6. We've originally setup the protection groups for host-level backups (using the hyper-v snapshots, vss null provider) and...
View ArticleDPM deduplication on standalone machine
Hi,we've been (mostly) following this article to set up deduplication for DPM, adapted for standalone machines. The article also contains instructions to set a few registry values:Set-ItemProperty...
View ArticleBackup of VM fails after enabling replica..
Hi,I have hyper-v failover cluster running on 2012 R2, and using DPM 2012 R2 to protects the vm's.When i enabling the vm to replicate to another host, that use a nas to Storage. The backup of the...
View ArticleDPM deduplication on standalone Hyper-V machine
Hi,we've been (mostly) following this article to set up deduplication for DPM, adapted for standalone machines. The article also contains instructions to set a few registry values:Set-ItemProperty...
View ArticleWas doing a backup and now my virtual HD is gone!
Hyper VM guest running Windows 2012. Hyper VM Host is a node in a Windows 2008 R2 2-node HyperV Cluster with CSVI was running Azure Backup of my on-prem virtual machine (from the inside of the VM). My...
View ArticleDPM failed to clean up data of old incremental backups on the replica for...
I keep getting these errors on some hyper-v vms on a windows 2012 r2 cluster. What does this mean and how can i fix them?DPM failed to clean up data of old incremental backups on the replica for...
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Hyper-V performence
HiI have 1 DPM server a physical HP DL380.I backup 1 cluster with 5 nodes. All nodes have the DPM agent installed.I see the following perfomence from this setup (or so I think). Please see the below...
View ArticleError 157 - Virtual Machine Somehow in 2 Protection Groups
I am Running DPM 2012 SP 1. I have a virtual machine that somehow ended up in 2 Protection Groups and now I cannot modify either of those protection groups. It just errors with the following...
View ArticleBest Practice for DPM + Hyper-V Cluster + CSV + Fibre Channel Backups?
Hi,we´re evaluating Hyper-V and DPM at the moment. The test setup is as follows:- 1 FC SAN, created various Volumes, added to the Hyper-V Cluster as CSVs- 3 Hyper-V Hosts running as a Hyper-V Cluster...
View ArticleIntermittent volume shadow copy Service error: Unexpected error...
I keep seeing the following error on 2012 R2 Hyper-V servers which is causing the backing up of the system protection to be very unreliable.When I look at the shadow copies settings for the C drive I'm...
View ArticleReplica is inconistent
Hi all, We are running DPM 2012 R2 on Windows Server 2012 R2 We have a Protection Group: Hyper-V Servers (36 members) where just 2 servers always give the same error message, when we try to run a...
View ArticleNot working 'exclude VHDX'
Hi,I have some VM's with dev databases, which not need to backup.I run set-DPMGlobalProperty -DPMServerName dpm.mydomain.local -HyperVPagefileExclusions "Sql_server_E.vhdx"if run: Get-DPMGlobalProperty...
View ArticleVSS timing out when backing up certain large VMs
It looks very similar to this problem but on Server 2012 R2. Time-out errors occur in Volume Shadow Copy service writers, and shadow copies are lost during backup and during times when there are high...
View ArticleLinux server shows Online\ServerName while the others are Offline\ServerName,...
Background Info:DPM Info: DPM 2012 R2 Ver: 4.2.1373.0 OS: Windows Server 2012 R2Linux Info:Server is hosted on Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Failover Cluster OS Version: Ubuntu Version: 14.04.3 2GB...
View ArticleAn unexpected error occurred while the job was running. (ID 104 Details:...
We have a two node failover hyperV cluster running with CSV. We can backup hyperv servers on one server, but not on the other. Network is working fine, and we can backup normal files from both servers....
View ArticleHyper-V Virtual Machines backup
I am looking into best approach for backing up Hyper-V machines running on premise. I have System Center 2012 DPM running and would like to utilize it to make reliable backups from which we can...
View ArticleDPM Hyper-V backup, with TSM on the windows guest system
HiWe have 150+ VM's in our environment, which we have started to backup with DPM.All servers have a TSM agent installed and running, doing offsite backup of user data.After we introduced DPM, we see...
View ArticleDPM Integration, How do I query cluster?
I cant figure out how to run the DPM integration pack against a hyper-v cluster. I want to automatically create backups of new VMs but whenever I add the name HVCLUS01 (the name of one my cluster) the...
View ArticleUnable to perform item level recovery on some converted VHD to VHDX files
HiWe run a 2012 R2 failover cluster with 2 Hyper-V hosts and we use DPM 2012 R2 to do VM backup's.When moving machines from the old 2008 R2 failvoer cluster to the new 2012 R2 cluster, many of the VHD...
View ArticleVM Backup with Linux Fedora 23 not working
We have a 2012 R2 Hyper-V cluster and we are using DPM 2012 R2 UR8 to backup our VMs. We just updated 3 VMs from Linux Fedora 19 to Fedora 23 and now after updating to Fedora 23 when the VM backups...
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