Hyper V Backup Strategy
hi,We are using Microsoft System Center DPM 2012 to back up about 30 servers. About 5 servers are physical and 25 are virtual machines. Of the virtual machines 10 are SQL boxes and about 5 are...
View ArticleDPM 2012 SP1 - replica is inconsistent - VSS provider is in a bad state
Hello,We have a DPM 2012 SP1 implemented recently, and we have two Hyper-V Hosts running on Win 2012 Standard Edition configured with two node clustering. And, there are Hyper-V Machines hosted on the...
View Articlerestoring a VHDX
Hi!I'm running DPM 2012SP1 on a Server 2008R2 virtual machine, 2008R2 host. All updates installed.One of the backed-up servers (a 2008R2 virtual machine) has a 3 TB volume, hosted on a Server 2012...
View ArticleVDS Errors on 2012 Hosts during Express Full Backups
Hello,I have a Hyper-V 2012 Cluster using a CSV and am protecting select VMs within it using DPM 2012 Sp1. I've applied the hotfix:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2813630 which has resolved the major...
View ArticleDPM backup Issues and VSS Errors
Hi All,Wondering if you can help, we've had a few backups failing recently on DPM, it’s not affecting all the backups just 3 random VM's on a cluster.In DPM we get the following error:Description:...
View ArticleDPM 2012 SP1 ILR fails - DPMRACurr.errlog says Invalid file path
I'm having trouble performing an item level recovery from a Hyper-V guest that we backup. In the DPM GUI, I get a fairly generic error saying that it wasn't able to recover the file. When I look...
View ArticleBackup of Hyper-V 2012 CSV Intermittent Fails with Error 0x80042301
We have a 5 node cluster. All nodes are running fully patched versions of Windows Server2012 Datacenter (including hotfixes KB2813630 and KB2796995). Storage is EqualLogic running firmware 6.0.2....
View ArticleCan't back up VMs in 2012 Cluster 0x80042301
I have a 2012 Cluster with a CSV. I have the Dell Equallogic HIT v 4.5 installed on both nodes, as well as the SCDPM 2012 SP1 Agent. When I add a replica to DPM to back up one (or any) of the virtual...
View ArticleBacking up a VM with multiple vhds attached
Hi all,Is it possible to backup just the system .vhd of a VM that has multiple .vhds attached. We have some VMs that have multiple .vhds associated with them that are storing data and I would like to...
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 ArticleHow to clean up non-existent Hyper-V cluster resource group in DPM?
Recently we start to protect our Hyper-V cluster (Windows Server 2008 R2) with DPM 2010. But I found that DPM keeps records of every HAVM we created in the Hyper-V cluster, even it's not ever protected...
View ArticleOccasional error backing up VMs, "DPM was unable to establish a connection...
I've seen this error come up several times since upgrading DPM and setting up the VMM integration. Affected area: \Backup Using Child Partition Snapshot\SERVER1 Occurred since: 2/10/2013 7:06:27 PM...
View ArticleSetting up backup for Hyper V cluster
I have a 12 Node hyper V cluster with 3 CSV volumes of 5 TB each and 90 Virtual Machines (As of now)..I am planning to implement a backup for these servers.Hyper V host OS : Windows 2008 R2 SP1...
View ArticleSerialization of CSV LUN's using SCDMP 2012 SP1
Afternoon All,I have a new installation of SCDPM Sp1 in my production environment and battling to keep the Replica's consistent. I read that it's best practice to serialize the backups per CSV. I have...
View ArticleProblem with Hyper-V 2012 Cluster and SCDPM2012
Hello forum!Before I start to explain the problem I'm experiense, I want to make sure you know that I'm new to this area of work. I've just done some small tests with Hyper-V, but never together with...
View ArticleDPM and CSV backup (Change block tracking or ntfs change journal)
Hi,i've been looking into DPM2010 and DPM2012. Does DPM utilize ntfs change journal or Change block tracking on and incremental backups. Somehow I think it doesn't. I keep seeying the CSV go into...
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Live migrated storage of a VM from one volume to another, now my DPM 2012sp1...
I am running server 2012 with hyper-v and dpm 2012 sp1. I live migrated the storage of a virtual machine from the E drive to the G drive of the hyper-v host. Now DPM will not backup this VM. I am...
View ArticleDPM 2012 SP1 Beta - Causing Server 2012 Hyper-V Cluster hang / ISCSI problems
Hi All,First of all, I know it's a beta and these are the perils of being an early adopter, but I've got a serious problem.I've upgraded our production Hyper-V cluster to Server 2012. The setup is a 4...
View ArticleVSS Writer in a bad state
I have a hyper-V host with 8 VMs. One of these VMs has just started failing on every recovery point or synchronization attempt with the following error in DPM:The VSS application writer or the VSS...
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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