DPM 2012 SP1 and SharePoint 2013 on a SQL 2012 AlwaysOn AG

Question

I am trying to protect a new SharePoint Foundation 2013 farm with it's databases stored on an SQL 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Group.  I've run configureSharePoint.exe -EnableSharePointProtection on my WFE and SharePoint shows up in DPM when I try to
add it to a protection group.  But I get the 32008 referenced here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970641 when trying to select the farm to back up.
If I run ConfigureSharePoint.exe -resolveallSQLAliases on the WFE it doesn't return anything.
I'm directly backing up databases on the SQL 2012 server, but not any of the SharePoint DBs.
K

Answer 1

Hi,
I'm having some trouble understanding what I'm seeing in the writer output from the WFE server.  Specifically the machine names that the writer is reporting.
If you look in the wfewtiters.txt, What is the machine that ends in 02 ?  Is that a physical machine or an alias ?
The machine ending in 06 is the Secondary SQL Server and that is what the Sharepoint writer is pointing to.
The WFE VSS Sharepoint writer shows this for two content DB’s
 * WRITER "SharePoint Services Writer"
  - Writer ID   = {da452614-4858-5e53-a512-38aab25c61ad}
  - Writer instance ID = {c0c46d7b-1c01-44bd-8353-e3433f5b8f07}
  - Supports restore events = TRUE
  - Writer restore conditions = VSS_WRE_ALWAYS
  - Restore method = VSS_RME_RESTORE_AT_REBOOT_IF_CANNOT_REPLACE
  - Requires reboot after restore = FALSE
  - Excluded files:
+ Component "SharePoint Services Writer:\XXXX02\WSS_Content_at.contoso.local"
- Name: WSS_Content_at.Contoso.local
- Logical path: XXXX02
- Full path: \XXXX02\WSS_Content_at.Contoso.local
- Caption: Content Database WSS_Content_at.Contoso.local
- Type: VSS_CT_DATABASE [1]
- Is selectable: TRUE
- Is top level: TRUE
- Notify on backup complete: FALSE
- Paths affected by this component:
- Volumes affected by this component:
- Component Dependencies:
- Dependency to "{a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a}:\\YYYY06\YYYY06\WSS_Content_at.contoso.local"
                                + Component "SharePoint Services Writer:\XXXX02\WSS_Content_fw.Contoso.local"
- Name: WSS_Content_fw.contoso.local
- Logical path: XXXX02
- Full path: \XXXX02\WSS_Content_fw.Contoso.local
- Caption: Content Database WSS_Content_fw.Contoso.local
- Type: VSS_CT_DATABASE [1]
- Is selectable: TRUE
- Is top level: TRUE
- Notify on backup complete: FALSE
- Paths affected by this component:
- Volumes affected by this component:
- Component Dependencies:
- Dependency to "{a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a}:\\YYYY06\YYYY06\WSS_Content_fw.contoso.local"
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