Service Pack 1 for System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 is now available for download.
Some of the improvements that have been included with this release:
Protection for Hyper-V virtualized environments (subject to Hyper-V hotfix)
Enhanced protection for SQL Server 2008 (supports mirroring, and simultaneous backup of multiple databases within same instance)
Protection of indexes in SharePoint Server [...]
The protected computer prerequisites document lists some of the things you need to have in place before you can protect a SharePoint farm with DPM. I soon learnt that the list was not, lets say, exhaustive – and I learnt it the hard way…
So here I present some things that I learnt along the [...]
If you’ve configured DPM 2007 to send email notifications for critical alerts, warnings or informational messages, and you do not receive the email alerts, even though the ‘Send Test Email’ works fine, try this:
Enter the username simply in the format username. Do NOT use DOMAIN\username or username@domain
If you are entering multiple recipients for sending [...]
If you need to optimally use your backup tapes by storing multiple backups on the same tape, you need to turn on the Media Co-location feature in Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007. By default, DPM 2007 uses a single tape for each backup operation and does not use that tape again till it [...]
I was trying to create a protection group in System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 to protect SharePoint Server 2007.
I followed the protected computer prerequisites documentation and made sure the following were done:
Installed KB940349 on the SharePoint front end server.
Installed KB941422 – Update for WSUS 3.0. After installing this KB, I had to run [...]
Tags: backup and recovery, Data Protection Manager 2007, Exchange Server 2007, system center, Windows Server 2008In this post, I explain how you can use System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 (hereafter DPM) to recover a single Exchange Server 2007 mailbox to a Recovery Storage Group (hereafter RSG) and ‘merge’ the restore with the actual mailbox.
On our production environment, we have Exchange Server 2007 SP1 SCC running on a Windows Server [...]
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