Removing a protection group after storage failure
Hello Dear all,We experienced a storage failure of our DPM 2016 server - lost the Disk for a configured protection group data is down the drain. A replacement drive came in and i have configured it as...
View ArticleDPM 2019 insists offering non-existing VM a for Hyper-V host
Hello everybody,a fresh install of DPM 2019 on Windows Server 2019 Datacenter shows all VMs on a freshly installed Windows Server 2019 Datacenter Hyper-V host, and it backs them up just fine. However,...
View ArticleError 40002
Hi,We have DPM 2016 running on WS2016 the major PG are VM running on hyper-v cluster 2012 R2, I install DPM, create PG and online protect, all run ok, for prower problems (Puerto Rico hurricane Maria),...
View ArticleFail to backup Hyper-V 2016 VM
HiI had receive error as below when backup my Hyper 2016 VMpls advise.either the servername needs reboot , is part of a cluster then some/all nodes in the cluster need t be rebooted.
View ArticleBackup Hyper-VM including Checkpoints
Hi..we are running DPM 2016 RU6 to protect our clustered Hyper-V (2016) VMs.Now I've tried to restore some of them and I'm wondering why the recovered VM lost all her Checkpoints...Only one vhdx file...
View ArticleHCI Node Error 5120 on Reboot with DPM Agent Installed
Hi,I have newly deployed, 3 node, Windows 2016 (Build 2724) Hyper-Converged Hyper-V/S2D cluster which is operating normally. The intention is to use DPM 2016 LTSB UR6 to perform VM level backups hosted...
View Articlecannot backup VM - The DPM service was unable to communicate with the...
Hello.New day, new DPM problem:Cannot protect one particular VM using host-level protection. It's the only VM having this problem. The error message (redacted names):Affected area: RCT\<VMNAME>...
View ArticleProblem moving Hyper-V host/guests to new protection server
We have a problem regarding Data Protection Manager and backup of a virtual SQL machine running on Hyper-V. The setup is as follows: We have 4 DPM servers running Windows 2012 R2 and DPM 2016...
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 ArticleProblem moving Hyper-V host/guests to new protection server
We have a problem regarding Data Protection Manager and backup of a virtual SQL machine running on Hyper-V. The setup is as follows: We have 4 DPM servers running Windows 2012 R2 and DPM 2016...
View ArticleHCI Node Error 5120 on Reboot with DPM Agent Installed
Hi,I have newly deployed, 3 node, Windows 2016 (Build 2724) Hyper-Converged Hyper-V/S2D cluster which is operating normally. The intention is to use DPM 2016 LTSB UR6 to perform VM level backups hosted...
View ArticleReplica is inconsistent
Hi Everyone!I am kinda stuck on an issue and have not been able to find an answer to that solves the problem. I was wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction.I currently have a Hyper-V...
View ArticleDPM 2019 - Consistency Check
Hi,I have a file server backed up using DPM 2019, that is in an inconsistent state. When I run the consistency check, after a while access to shares on the server is interrupted to the point that files...
View ArticleDPM 2016 backups failing - Unknown error ID 104 - Leaving Checkpoints behind
Hi,I have been having a recent issue with DPM 2016 UR7 where my VM backups have been failing and leaving behind "checkpoints" that don't actually exist in Hyper-V.If I then try to run the backup job...
View ArticleNX / DX bit in windows 7 and Bitlocker failure
On windows 7 machine after turning on NX in BIOS and turning on "Data Execution Prevention" option per below link the laptop failed to boot up. It is asking for Bitlocker key which is lost. Can you...
View ArticleConsistency checks failing on one cluster, succeeding on another
Hi @ all,[all servers involved are 2016, patched up to July CU]trying to back up Hyper-V VMs running on three separate clusters. All VM configs and disks reside on the same SOFS living on an S2D...
View ArticleVMGS files missing in backup - unable to recover VMs
Hello, I have a trouble with VM backup in our DPM 2016: it looks like the DPM is not backing VMGS files for VMs. I am using Hyper-V backup feature of DPM, DPMs are hosted on Windows Server 2019, with...
View ArticleHyper-V host level protection
I have a Hyper-V guest playing fileserver role and which happens to play other roles as well (AD/DS, DHCP, DNS). Further I have a (virtual) DPM server (dedicated machine with a physical disk...
View Articlehyperv replica
Dears,can someone advise on how to configure hyperv replication between a cluster of 2 hyper-v in main site and one standalone hyperv in the DR.many thanks
View ArticleHow to fix Event ID 5217 and 5120 when backup up a VM on CSV with DPM
I have a 4 Node Cluster with 2 Shared Cluster Volumes on an ISCSI SAN. Each node is up-to-date with Updates and is running Server 2012 DataCenter. I have a seperate 2012 server with Microsoft DPM on...
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