Best practices for SQL backups with DPM 2012 SP1
I am backing up SQL databases using DPM 2012 SP1. I have synchronization frequency set to 1 hour. Application recovery points set to Express Full backup at 8:00 PM everyday. Are the synchronizations...
View ArticleFailed Backup
Hello-I'm backing up a SQL server and a few of it's databases. When I run the backup, I'm getting the errors below:On the backup of the D:\ partition:The operation failed sindce DPM was unable to...
View ArticleDPM not scheduling Incremental Backups Following Recovery Model Change
We have a Sharepoint test server which uses SQL Server 2012 on Windows Server 2012 Standard, protected by DPM 2012 R2.At some point in its history, the recovery model of some of the databases was...
View ArticleUnable to configure protection SQL Express 2014
My DPM server is running DPM 2012 R2 Update Rollup 5. I am trying to configure protection for SQL Express 2014 on 2 protected servers but I cannot. I receive this error in DPM.Unable to configure...
View Articleinactive SQL recoverypoint in DPM 2012 R2 UR5
Hi,we have a problem with SQL recoverypoints. When I remove a SQL Database from a protection group and do not delete the data from disk, the restorepoints should be kept for as long as I do not...
View ArticleDPM SQL Protection of Multiple Instances on one Host
Hello We have a single DPM 2010 Server instance (with Agent version 3.0.8195.0) and we are trying to protect databases on three SQL Server 2008 R2 x64 SP1 instances, which live on the same server. The...
View ArticleDPM 2012 sp1 Unable to configure protection
HiI have installed 2 new Server 2012 with SQL 2012 Standard Edition. Both Server i can backup successfully. But the SQL Server DB have after about 3 Minutes the same errorUnable to configure...
View Article2012 R2 DPM - Database Auto Protection Failed - Mofcomp succeeds -...
I've been chasing this around for a while now. I am running 2012 DPM update 6 with 2012 SQL. The database auto protection fails, I then run mofocomp "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL...
View ArticleDPM 2012 R2 - reduce log size
Hi All,I have DPM 2012 R2 CU6, SQL 2012 in HA group.DPM backups daily a TFS DBs with 4 hours sync interval.Sadly my problem is that log file quickly run out of memory ... every 7-8 days.I specified 50...
View Articlebackup SQL using DPM and maintenance plan
Is it possible to backup SQL DB (2012 with AlwaysOn) using DPM 2012 R2 and native SQL maintenance plan (with full recovery mode option)? After reading some articles it appears this will not work due...
View ArticleDPM 2012 R2 U4 protecting SQL 2014 with instances stored on CSV -
Anyone able to get DPM 2012 R2 with U4 installed, protecting a SQL 2014 Cluster with instances stored on CSV?I'm getting the following errors in my DPMRACurr.errlogError executing SQL Query. Details:...
View ArticleBackup definitions only - not data
Hi there,is it possible to protect only the definitions of a database and not the data? If you have a big database and only need the definitions backuped, then you could save a lot of storage space -...
View ArticleMaster database msdb cannot be backed up by DPM
DPM 2012 SP1 backing up Windows server 2012 R2 with SQL Server 2012.DPM is successfully backing up the SQL application databases & master and model databases. With the msdb, DPM always reports...
View ArticleSQL datas through a dedicated backup network
I have SCDPM 2012 R2 Rollup Update 7.There is a protected server, for which I created two protection groups : One for bare metal recovery (BMR) of the server, and the other for the SQL protection....
View ArticleDPM 2012 R2
Hi,we are facing problem with DPM 2012 SQL self service recovery tool.After connecting to DPM server when trying to create New Recovery job it give following error"Make sure that the DPM Server is...
View ArticleDPM and MSSQL AlwaysOn in Untrusted\trusted domain
Hi all.I have DPM 2012 R2 in one AD forest with latest updates and UR and i have two MS SQL 2014 servers in AlwaysOn AG in another forest.I tried configure authentication by local user and DPM see my...
View ArticleDPM failing SQL backups due to error: "the SQL Server instance refused a...
I ran across this error starting on 6/4/2011 and have been unable to find the root of the problem. In our environment, we have a DPM 2010 server dedicated to backing up all our SQL envrionment (about...
View ArticleMove protected SQL Server DB storage
I have a SQL Server Enteprise 2005 DB on which I moved some of the DB data files from one drive to another, for capacity reasons. Nothing else changed. This server is being protected by DPM 2012 SP1....
View ArticleDPM 2012 R2 - SQL (Auto) error trying to backup deleted databases
New install running DPM 2012 R2 (4.2.1338) against a specific 2012 server running SQL 2012 SP1.This SQL server has a number of databases and the DPM Protection Group for this server is set to 'All SQL...
View ArticleProtection of SQL 2014 Servers with Cluster Shared Volumes - DPM 2012 R2
Any word on a fix to support CSV on SQL 2014 protection? If not any workarounds? This needs to be resolved ASAP.
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