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What is Data Protection Manager (DPM)? System Center 2012 – Data Protection Manager (DPM) is an enterprise backup system. Using DPM, you can back up (copy) data from a source location to a secondary target location. If the original data is unavailable because of planned or unexpected issues, you can restore the data from the secondary location. You can use DPM to back up application data from Microsoft servers and workloads, and to back up file data from servers and client computers. You can create full backups, incremental backups, differential backups, and bare-metal backups to completely restore a system. Read the full documentation on TechNet.Link to the social group for backup (DPM and Azure)
Hi ! All welcome and invite to the facebook group "https://www.facebook.com/groups/SCDPM/"! What can you do in this group? publish the articles about Microsoft Backup System (DPM, Azure Backup, etc); help each other answering a question; ask a question; leave feedback;
DPM 2025 failing with SharePoint Subscription Edition
I recently upgraded from SharePoint 2019 to Subscription Edition. I was able to back SP 2019, but not the new version. It gives errors such as the following: Retry the operation. If backup is failing for a SQL instance or Sharepoint Farm, make sure SQL OLEDB driver version 19.3.3 or higher is installed on protected computer. I have tried both 9.3.5 and 9.4.1 of the OLE DB drivers without success, on both the SharePoint and SQL servers. In the past, I only installed this driver on the SQL server. I believe there may be some incompatibility with OLE DB 9.4.1 as with it installed the non-farm related databases also fail intermittently with this message, but not with the 9.3.5 driver. I'm using SQL Server 2022. Both DPMRA and SYSTEM have sysadmin roles on the SQL server. Anyone having this type of problem?
DPM Backup Issue – Replica Inconsistent
Hi, We are using Microsoft SCDPM and everything was working fine until recently. We suddenly started receiving the error “replica is inconsistent.” There were no VM migrations and no configuration changes. Running a consistency check does not fix the problem. The only way we can make it work is to remove the machine from the protection group, select the option to delete the existing data, and then re-add it. This means we lose all previous backups. After four to six days the same issue comes back again, affecting random VMs and not always the same ones. Is there any other way to resolve this without losing backup history? Where can I look at the logs to understand the root cause? Is there still any way to get Microsoft support for DPM?DPM used for Sharepoint doesn't clean catalog table
Hi All, we are using DPM for saving our SP farms in DEV, TEST and PROD environment. On DEV farm (quite small) we don't have any kind of issue and both recovery point tasks and SharePoint Catalog Task are executed without errors. On TEST and PROD, instead we are often facing some errors (MDF in use, VSS issues and so on) and for this reason we had to completely delete and re-create the protection groups and we even deleted the data inside. So we started from the scratch. Nevertheless even if we completely deleted ALL the protection groups without retaining data, our DPM database kept growing steadily and no data have been cleaned or removed. Above all we noticed the following table continuing to grow: tbl_RM_SharePointRecoverableObject In addition we found in some DPM database tables that the deleted protection group are still present in the table but they are marked as deleted. But even if they are in this state, the DPM doesn't clean anything and the DB still growing... The MaintenanceJob CatalogPruning it's executed but it does absolutely anything. So my question is: Are there jobs that clean up all this obsolete data? Isn’t there any maintenance to clear everything out? Thanks Antonio
