DPM 2012 Reporting 9.2Tb Data Written to an LTO6 Tape.

I understood the "Data Written" to be the total amount of data written to the tape, so how can my LTO6 be reporting 9,201,199.88 Mb !
LTO6 Tapes are 2.5Tb Native & 6Tb compressed.
Can anyone explain this ?

Hi,
LTO-6 advertises a capacity of 6.25 TB (assuming a 2.5:1 compression), if the data you are backing up is highly compressible, you can get more data on the tape.
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DPM 2012 - stand alone drive - Short/Long term protection to tape

We are migrating from BE to DPM 2012. I'm trying to configure DPM 2012 for both short term & long term protection - both using tape (stand alone drive). The goal is:
Daily backups (Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu) - 2 weeks retention
Weekly backup (Friday) - 4 weeks retention
Monthly backup (last weekly backup) on every month - 15 m onths retention
I've configured the short term protection for daily and weekly backups. Monthly backups are configured under long term protection. Daily and weekly backups are working as expected. However when it comes time for the Monthly, the DataSet copy jobs are failing.
As I understand it, DPM is expecting another drive to copy the weekly backup tape.
How I can achieve above goals ? Backup to disk is not an option.

Hi,
Any time DPM schedules a dataset copy job, you will need more than one tape drive, there is no way around that requirement.
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Why is DPM 2012 R2 splitting this Co-located Protection Group Set across three different tapes?

I have 10 protection groups that ran Saturday night. I have put information about them in the following table:
I extracted the data in the table using Get-DPMProtectionGroup CmdLet and the job information from the Monitoring page of the DPM admin console. As you can see from the tape barcode, DPM wrote the first four PGs to one tape, then started a second
tape, and finally failed when starting a third because it had run out of free tapes.
All of the protection groups are assigned to the same "Co-Located Protection Group Set" in the "Tape Optimization Setup" dialog box.
Prior to the jobs running, I painstakingly ensured that each of the Protection Group's "Select Long-Term Goals" and "Select Library and Tape Details" screens are identical as follows:
Prior to running the jobs I had already disabled autoclean on the tape library.
I have checked to see if the tape drive is reporting IO error 0x8007045D using the method described in this blog post:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/dpm/archive/2012/05/14/things-you-can-do-to-help-data-protection-manager-utilize-your-tapes-full-capacity.aspx
There seems to be no mention of 0x8007045D or -2147023779 in any of the MSDPM*.Errlog files.
These are LTO6 tapes with a capacity of 2.5 TB each. The total data for all the jobs put together is less than 300GB.
Why is DPM 2012 R2 splitting these protection groups across three different tapes?
What else should I check for that might cause DPM to start a new tape?

Hi Mike,
Thanks for taking a look at the logs. I just wanted to point out that there were actually two changes made just before collocation succeeded:
Write Period and Expiry Tolerance were increase
Full Verbose logging was enabled
This technet article states that Full Verbose logging affects performance. If the problem with collocation is caused by a race condition then it is
possible that enabling logging actually caused collocation to succeed. At this point there doesn’t seem to be any evidence pointing to which of the two changes resulted in collocation succeeding.
I propose I run the following tests to differentiate the two:
Test #1 - Collocation Confirmation
Repeat last weekend's test to confirm that successful collocation wasn't an anomaly. Configuration:
full verbose logging: Enabled
Expiry Tolerance: 1 year
Write Period: 1 year
Test #2 - Logging Only
Test to see whether enabling Full Verbose logging enabled collocation to succeed. Configuration:
full verbose logging: Enabled
Expiry Tolerance: 7 days
Write Period: 6 day
Thanks for your help,
Alex

DPM 2012 SP1 - Single Data Source Written to Multiple Tape Drives

Just a question, really...
I know that DPM can write to multiple drives for a single protection group with more than one data source.
However, is it possible for DPM 2012 SP1 (or R2) to write to multiple drives from a single data source from a single protection group?
So if I have "DataSource A" in "MyProtectionGroup" and I allocate 2 tape drives to the PG, could DPM use both drives to backup the PG?
I assume the answer is "no," but I just wanted to double check. Thanks.

Hi,
What you are wanting is a feature called striping and DPM does not have that advanced feature.
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Greater than Equal to Functionality when retirivng data from SSAS 2008 cube using SSRS 2012 report not working

I have an SSRS 2012 report and SSAS Cube in 2008. My report criterion requires filtering on measures. So Created measures as dimensions . The report requires >= functionality on the measures. But in the Query designer of
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the default value of “TO” .By writing another Dataset query that returns the “MAX”
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But whenever I run the report after entering all the selection criteria
I keep getting
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I did try
: StrToMember("[Fact RCS CV BLAST].[APPRLIMIT ACH].
&[" & @ToFactRCSCVBLASTAPPRLIMITACH &
"]", CONSTRAINED) )
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Hi,
I think if you use the following method you will be able to compare the members.
CDbl(StrToMember("[Fact RCS CV BLAST].[APPRLIMIT ACH].&[" + @ToFactRCSCVBLASTAPPRLIMITACH + "]").Member_Name)
As you mentioned that you converted your measures as dimensions, you are having an integer value as the member name. In that case use VBA functions with MDX to do the datatype conversion.
Take a look into the following MDX written against Adventure Works;
WITH CALCULATED MEMBER [Measures].[Member Name] AS
CInt
Right
CStr
[Date].[Calendar Year].CURRENTMEMBER.MEMBER_NAME
), 4
SELECT {[Measures].[Sales Amount], [Measures].[Member Name]} ON COLUMNS,
FILTER
[Date].[Calendar Year].[Calendar Year].MEMBERS,
CInt(Right(CStr([Date].[Calendar Year].CURRENTMEMBER.MEMBER_NAME), 4)) >= 2005 AND
CInt(Right(CStr([Date].[Calendar Year].CURRENTMEMBER.MEMBER_NAME), 4)) <=2008
} ON ROWS
FROM [Adventure Works]
I am filtering the Years by using the member names by extracting the Integer portion of the member name and applying data type conversion functions in VBA. So I
Keep in mind that you have to get rid of the CONSTRAINED clause if your business users can enter anything on the SSRS text box.

E-Mail reports failing after upgrading to DPM 2012 R2.

I am trying to follow Mike Jacquet's blog post regarding fixing e-mailed reports after ugprading to DPM 2012 R2. The link is here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/dpm/archive/2013/12/05/attempts-to-schedule-a-mailed-report-in-dpm-2012-fail-with-reporting-services-server-cannot-connect-to-the-dpm-database.aspx
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KW

Hi
From within DPM console select Management tab. From here select About DPM. Obtain needed information from section DPM’s SQL Server.
The data source = DPM ServerName\SQL instance
initial catalog = DPMDB Name
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Data protection Manager 2012 reports

We have DPM 2012 server protect 5 sharepoint farms. It contains sharepoint, SQL and file systems protection groups. current recovery point retention period is 31 days, I need to how much data I will save if I decrease it to 15 days
Any idea how to create report with such kind of data?

Hi,
there are 2 Ways:
User the StorageCalculator Excel:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=24375
http://blogs.technet.com/b/dpm/archive/2010/09/02/new-dpm2010-storage-calculator-links-sep-2010.aspx
or see the Calculation Advices:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff399599.aspx
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DPM 2012 R2 - Failed to clean up data

Hi,
I'm hoping someone might be able to help me.
I've recently been getting an error on one of our backup jobs, I've tried searching around for solutions but no-one seems to have had the exact same issue that I'm experiencing.
The backup job is a shadow copy file backup of a complete volume.
It's been working for the past few weeks but I'm now getting the error below when I try to run a consistency check.
People have reported issues similar which suggest executing the pruneshadowcopiesdpm2010.ps1 which I've tried but this seems to make no difference.
The protection group is short term disk protection with a retention period of 14 days with file recovery points created at 11am, 1.30pm, 3.30pm and 8pm. The job is currently reporting 32 recovery points which leads me to believe it shouldn't need to
clean up any yet anyway.
Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.
Type: Consistency check
Status: Failed
Description: DPM failed to clean up data of old incremental backups on the replica for Volume D:\ on nas01.nwhs.local. Synchronization will fail until the replica cleanup succeeds. (ID 30134 Details: Cannot create a file when that file already exists (0x800700B7))
More information
End time: 29/04/2014 18:48:03
Start time: 29/04/2014 18:48:02
Time elapsed: 00:00:01
Data transferred: 0 MB
Cluster node -
Source details: D:\
Protection group: User Data
Items scanned: 0
Items fixed: 0

RIS,
The access denied can come if there is already a lock on the file( like Antivirus).
Can you let me know what version of DPM2012R2? if you goto about DPM you it will give you exact version 4.x.xxxx.x. You stated you had AV exclusions set
"We do run Sophos Antivirus but it does have exceptions set and the volumes that are being protected do not store any Sophos related data."
I want to ensure all are set from -
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh757911.aspx - if you can test disabling AV that may help.
Can you check the event logs on DPM server and PS during the failure to see if there is anything else running that may lock the files?
There may also be a "failedfiles.dat" that may due to unsupported files see link below for assistance troubleshooting that -
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/f7de60cd-841f-4d22-862e-aaf3723717c7/dpm-could-not-log-files-that-were-skipped-during-backup-to-volumexxxxxfailedfilesdat-id?forum=dataprotectionmanager
How to read failedfiles.dat if there is one -
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/dataprotectionmanager/thread/27c48816-dabb-41a0-b800-6e1ac2fc1ed5
Also what is the OS version of the DPM server? Are you doing any dedupe\ODX\Thin provisioning on the protected server?
Ultimately we may need a ticket to determine what is locking out the file during the failure but please let me know the answers to the above and I will see if that helps. Thanks
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DPM 2012 still requires put end users into local admin groups for the purpose of end user data recovery?

On client computers that are protected by DPM 2010 and prior versions, you had to put the end users account in the local administrators group. If you did not add the end user account to the local administrators group you would get this error after opening
the recovery tab in the DPM client: “DPM found no recovery points which you are authorized to restore on the specified DPM server. You can restore only those recovery points for which you were an administrator at the time the
backup was taken. To restore other recovery points, contact your DPM administrator, or attempt to restore from another DPM.” This is not ideal on many networks because the end users are not allowed to have local administrator access.
Ths fix to this was included in hotfix 2465832 found here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2465832.
This hotfix (a hotfix rollup package for DPM 2010) resolves other issues with DPM 2010 as well. You can find the full list of what this hotfix corrects on that link.
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Is there a new hotfix for the same issue on DPM 2012? I am hesitated to apply KB2465832 since it also includes many other fixes for DPM 2010, which may not appicable for version 2012.
Please help.
Thanks,

This is a hands off solution to allow all users that use a machine to be able to restore their own files.
1) Make these two cmd files and save them in c:\temp
2) Using windows scheduler – schedule addperms.cmd to run daily – any new users that log onto the machine will automatically be able to restore their own files.
<addperms.cmd>
Cmd.exe /v /c c:\temp\addreg.cmd
<addreg.cmd>
set users=
echo Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00>c:\temp\perms.reg
echo [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Data Protection Manager\Agent\ClientProtection]>>c:\temp\perms.reg
FOR /F "Tokens=*" %%n IN ('dir c:\users\*. /b') do set users=!users!%Userdomain%\\%%n,
echo "ClientOwners"=^"%users%%Userdomain%\\bogususer^">>c:\temp\perms.reg
REG IMPORT c:\temp\perms.reg
Del c:\temp\perms.reg
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That's a good one! Thanks for that.
I've been scripting on KIX for some time, so here is mine, hope it helps to someone... (it's probably not the best, but it works)
========================================================================
$RC=setoption("WOW64AlternateRegView","on")
$DPMkey = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Data Protection Manager\Agent\ClientProtection"
$uservariable = "%userdomain%\%username%"
If KeyExist ($DPMkey)
$Userstring=ReadValue($DPMkey, "ClientOwners")
If $Userstring == ""
WriteValue($DPMkey,"ClientOwners", $uservariable, "REG_MULTI_SZ")
? "Key created"
else
If not instr($Userstring,$uservariable)
$Userstring = "$Userstring,$uservariable"
WriteValue($DPMkey,"ClientOwners", $Userstring, "REG_MULTI_SZ")
EndIf
Endif
EndIf
==========================================================================
The problem actually is that you still need to use an admin account to write on the registry, so ensure you configure it properly on the schedule task.
In case you use a service account on the schedule task... the "$uservariable" will get populated with that account. As a work around to this... I changed it for the following line:
=========================================================
$uservariable = ReadValue("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI", "LastLoggedOnSAMUser")
=========================================================
The only problem with that, is that key gets created/updated only if user gets logged phisically on that PC, but will not work for anyone connecting through RDP.

Share Data Source between multiple report projects in Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services

I have a reports solution in 2012 which contains multiple report projects one each for target deployment folder and we use TFS 2012 for report deployment.
We have a template project which has a bunch of template reports and all the datasources used in different reports.
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Hi ione721,
According to your description, you want to create a shared data source which works for multiple projects. Right?
In Reporting Services, A shared data source is a set of data source connection properties that can be referenced by multiple reports, models, and data-driven subscriptions that run on a Reporting Services report server. It must be within one project.
We can't specify one data source working for multple projects. In this scenario, we suggest you put those reports into one project. Otherwise you can only create one data source for each project.
If you have any question, please feel free to ask.
Best Regards,
Simon Hou

SCCM 2012 R2 - "Site - Client information" reports contain no data

Hi,
I'm running CM 2012 R2 and have a lot of clients installed. In management console, the clients are active, but Site - Client Information reports contain no data. The other reports, for example, Hardware - Processor etc., show data.
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Do you have a Fallback status point enabled and defined? if not then most of these report will not work.
However Count of Client for each site should work.
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DPM 2012 R2 Reporting Server locations

I' m just looking to see what is and what is and not supported for a DPM 2012 R2 Topology for the SSRS.
When using multiple DPM servers with SSRS installed locally on the DPM server. Does each SSRS instance need a separate ReportServerDB on a remote SQL server running the SQL DB Engine. Or can they report to the 1 ReportServer DB on the remote SQL server?
I know I can have each SSRS instance installed on each DPM server point to the same SQL Server but creating multiple ReportServer databases.
Thanks

Hi,
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Multiple DPM servers sharing a remote SQL server instance = SSRS will also be shared in same SQL instance.
Multiple DPM Servers sharing a clustered SQL Server instance = SSRS will need to be on separate non-clustered SQL Server. For each DPM server using the same standalone SQL Server instance - the SSRS will be shared.
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Upgrading DPM 2012 SP1 to DPM 2012 R2 fails (DPM Setup is unable to connect to the specific instance of SQL Server Reporting Service (ID: 33431)

The Background:
1. DPM 2012 SP1 was originally installed on a server with local SQL 2008 R2 instance (SQL was installed as part of DPM)
2. SQL database was upgraded to SQL 2012 SP1
Now I want to upgrade DPM 2012 SP1 CU3 to R2. It is throwing the following error. Any help would be appreciated.

This absolutely fixed my issue. I had upgraded my version of SQL and was then trying to upgrade DPM 2012 to 2012R2 and I could not figure out where the installation was querying old version of the reporting services.
DPM Log Before:
[6/4/2014 2:53:32 PM] Information : Query WMI provider for path of configuration file for SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services.
[6/4/2014 2:53:32 PM] Information : Querying WMI Namespace: \\DPMServer\root\Microsoft\SqlServer\ReportServer\RS_MSDPM2012\v10\admin for query: SELECT * FROM MSReportServer_ConfigurationSetting WHERE InstanceName='MSDPM2012'
[6/4/2014 2:53:32 PM] * Exception : => System.Management.ManagementException: Provider load failure
DPM Log After:
[6/4/2014 3:25:36 PM] Information : SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 instance MSDPM2012 is not present on this system.
[6/4/2014 3:25:36 PM] Information : Query WMI provider for SQL Server 2008.
[6/4/2014 3:25:36 PM] Information : Querying WMI Namespace: \\DPMServer\root\Microsoft\SqlServer\ComputerManagement11 for query: Select * from SqlServiceAdvancedProperty where ServiceName='MSSQL$MSDPM2012' and PropertyName='Version'
[6/4/2014 3:25:36 PM] Information : SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 instance MSDPM2012 is present on this system.
[6/4/2014 3:25:36 PM] Information : Inspect context initialized with
SQL Server namespace: \\{0}\root\Microsoft\SqlServer\ComputerManagement11
Reporting namespace: \\{0}\root\Microsoft\SqlServer\ReportServer\RS_{1}\v11\admin
SqlServerDetected: True
[6/4/2014 3:25:36 PM] Information : Check if SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 Tools is installed.
[6/4/2014 3:25:36 PM] Information : Inspect.CheckSqlServerTools : MsiQueryProductState returned : INSTALLSTATE_DEFAULT
[6/4/2014 3:25:36 PM] Information : **********************************************************************************
Thanks for This FIX!

MMC has stopped working dpm 2012 r2 reporting tab

Hi,
I have a dpm 2012 R2 server. But i can't open the reporting tab. When i try to open it, it crashes imidiatly with the following error:
Description:
AppName: mmc AppVer: 4.2.1205.0 ModName: mmc.exe
ModVer: 6.3.9600.16384 StackHash: 9EAE70C3
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: DPMException
Application Name: mmc
Application Version: 4.2.1205.0
Module Name: mmc.exe
Module Version: 6.3.9600.16384
Exception Name: System.NullReferenceException
Exception Point: Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.UI.ReportingPage.Reporting.RefreshListView
Other: 9EAE70C3
OS Version: 6.3.9600.2.0.0.400.8
Locale ID: 1043
I can succesfully browse to:
http://dpmservername/Reports_MSDPM2012
then i can click any report and they all work.
Does someone know how to solve this??
Thanks.

Hi
If you update to the latest rollup for DPM R2 SP1 does it work?

Migrate data from DPM 2010 to DPM 2012

Hello.
I am currently using DPM 2010. I want to move to DPM 2012, but not as an upgrade. I am using a 20 TB storage pool for nightly backups and tape for weekly backups. The goal of the upgrade is to upgrade the OS as well as DPM, so this will be a fresh installation,
not an in place upgrade. Is there a way to get the recovery point information for tapes and the storage pool migrated into DPM 2012 from DPM 2010?

This topic is closer to system center forum and even there the answer is well beyond the scope. I would recommend
1. MS System Center Guides
2. Survival guides
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/7075.system-center-2012-configuration-manager-survival-guide.aspx
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/11414.system-center-2012-orchestrator-survival-guide.aspx
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/11417.system-center-2012-endpoint-protection-survival-guide.aspx
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/8113.system-center-2012-service-manager-survival-guide.aspx
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/7809.system-center-2012-operations-manager-survival-guide.aspx
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/11867.system-center-2012-data-protection-manager-survival-guide.aspx
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/11415.system-center-2012-app-controller-survival-guide.aspx
3. Book from Packt Publishing
http://www.packtpub.com/microsoft-system-center-data-protection-manager-2012-with-service-pack-1/book
Make experiments on test system before doing changes in production environment.
Regards
Milos

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