Live Migration breaks Hyper-V RCT VM Backup but doesn't give any error.
We've setup 2 new Windows Server 2016 with Hyper-V. The VM:s are protected by DPM 2016 with RCT & Modern Backup Storage. All backups are running fine but today we found out something alarming. When...
View ArticleItem Level Recovery of Hyper-V machine in DPM Server using Powershell
Hi All, I am trying to restore a file present in a machine inside my Hyper-V, Manually through DPM Server GUI I can perform Item Level recovery very easily but through PowerShell I am not able to...
View ArticleSCDPM - Auto Tiering Storage
HiWe recently implemented some dynamic storage shelves in our datacentre. These particular shelves break blocks into pages and move them around the storage capabilities in 2MB chunks (based on various...
View ArticleThe DPM service was unable to communicate with the protection agent on...
HelloI Have Hyper-V 2012r2 with hyper-v role. On this server I have one VM(win 2008r2 web server) which I backup via DPM agtent. This server is connected with my site via IPSEC and backup running via...
View ArticleDPM 2016 protecting 2012 R2 DC hosted on a 2016 HyperV Host Server gets a VSS...
I recently upgraded some of my Hyper-V host servers to 2016 as well as DPM (both OS and DPM version to 2016). So far everything has gone fairly smooth Upon updating the host servers, I began to shut...
View ArticleDPM 2016 Backup Guest Cluster w/Shared VHDs
I am running DPM 2016 on a physical 2016 Server.I am migrating my four node 2012 R2 cluster to a four node 2016 cluster. As it stands, the four new 2016 nodes have been added to the 2012 R2. The VMs...
View ArticleDPM2012R2 - cannot backup one 2012R2 VM, VSS writers inside the VM fails
Situation:Two node 2012R2 Hyper-V cluster, both nodes patched up to latest state.Physical DPM2012R2 server, also patched up, DPM latest rollup installed and also agents updatedOne 2012R2 VM backup...
View ArticleDPM 2016 Backup task cancelled since it lies outside the backup window (ID...
I have backup jobs scheduled to run at 10 PM daily, many jobs remain in progress with no data transfer and fails at morning 6 AM with below error:Recovery point creation jobs for Microsoft Hyper-V...
View ArticleCannot backup VM - The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is...
Hello. We're trying to backup a VM running on a host (host-level backup). The operation always fails in DPM with the following error:'An unexpected error occurred while the job was running. (ID 104...
View ArticleDPm 2012 R2 leaving .avhd files behind.
Hello All,We are using DPM 2012 R2 to backup the VMs on a Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V failover cluster. I was browsing through the CSV looking at the various VHDs when I noticed that many of the VMs have...
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Protect Hyper-Converged Storage Spaces Direct Cluster with DPM 2016
I have a small two node s2d cluster which I was looking into protecting with DPM 16. But when I try and set up the agent I don't see the HA VM's each has non HA DC on other direct attach storage but I...
View ArticleDo you need to deploy hotfixes\updates on both the DPM server with the...
Hi,If you want to protect an Hyper-V cluster with DPM 2016, you install the Hyper-V role on the DPM server. But what symbiosis do the Hyper-V role on the DPM server and the Hyper-V host have?Do you...
View ArticleDPM 2016 - Cluster - Failed to restore virtual machine
Good afternoon. There is a problem of restoring a virtual machine back to where it was successfully saved from. There is a cluster of 3 nodes. At all are agents of DPM, backups are normal. But, at...
View ArticleMicrosoft Windows Server 2012 R2 - Hyper-V VM Backup using System Center's...
All,We are trying to backup our VM's on our hosts using DPM 2016.When we attempt to do so, the backup fails and upon research found the following error on VSS Writers:Writer name: 'Microsoft Hyper-V...
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Unable to restore VM to 2016 Cluster Resource using DPM 2016 latest UR
Hello DPM technet,I have a 2 node Server 2016 Hyper-V cluster using S2D hosting VMs and a Server 2012 R2 DPM 2016 UR 3I have followed the documentation regarding adding a VMM attached Server 2016...
View ArticleDPM 2016 very slow backups
Hi I am backing up all Hyper-V VMs using DPM 2016 Version 5.03220 with on to a storage pool which is of ReFS and backups are very slow. It takes more time to start Data transfer. OS : Windows 2016we...
View ArticleDPM 2016 backup hyper-v cluster: Does the consistency check put the VM in a...
Hi,DPM 2016 backup hyper-v cluster: Does the consistency check put the VM in a locked state? If so how to check it?/SaiTech
View ArticleDPM 2016 on SOFS cluster 2012R2
Guys,Anyone using DPM 2016 to backup SOFS cluster 2012R2 with Hyper-V also server 2012R2 or are there any compatibility issues? none that I can found.....also, if anyone has nice article for the same...
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Do PreBackupScript and PostBackupScript still work in DPM 2016 (with modern...
I am trying to run a PreBackupScript and a PostBackupScript for a protected Hyper-V virtual machine.The vm runs on a Windows Server 2016 failover cluster and runs Windows Server 2016 as the guest OS.I...
View ArticleFailed to backup some cluster VMs - The filename, directory name, or volume...
Hi..we use DPM to backup VMs on our Hyper-V Cluster. There are many VMs without any backup issue, but 5 of them failed with error:An unexpected error occurred while the job was running. (ID 104...
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