Hello everybody,
I am running DPM 2012R2 v4.2.1417.0 on Server 2012R2 with a local SQL instance. Tape library is a Dell TL2000 running an IBM ULT3580-HH5 Library.
The Problem what I have is that the "Tape Clean" DPM function doesn't work. Every time I start the cleanup-job, I get the following messages
Errors from DPM
Errors from Eventview
(the registrykeyisalreadyset:
RSMCompatMode: Value 13 (decimal))
Hello,
DPM uses free tapes in random (i think.) So, there are 4 offsite ready tape in slot left and 2 in slot right after one week of backup.
Now I want sort all off tapes to one slot. Then i can take only one slot an Change the tapes to new ones.
thx Ben
We have a problem with our SC DPM 2012R2 (Now Rollup 11, but the problem existed when it was still Rollup 10) server. The problem is that whenever we first (fresh out of the package) use a tape the backup runs fine, but whenever we use a tape that we already used before the backup to tape fails.
Even when we mark a tape as free or erase the tape it still fails.
I think our colocation settings are ok, otherwise it would not work with a fresh new tape.
We also receive a error about inventory failing right when the backup starts. But since we always get this error even when the backup is succesful I don't think its related, I think its because the tape is in use by the backup.
I ran the DPMTapeLibraryCompatibilityCheckerTool mentioned in several threads and that shows the test as succesful.
Is there anyone that can point us in the right direction or shed some light on the reason for failing with expired tapes?
Good morning.
We have DPM 2012 R2 rollup 4 with 6 VTLs (Firestreamer VTL). Each VTL has 5 drives. Each protection group, when backing up to the VTL, has access to 2 drives.
Is it normal that DPM does not seem very smart when backing up to multiple drives? If I only have one tape available, and it is in used in drive 1, it seems that DPM will still try to write to another tape in drive 2 and fail the backups that are being sent to that drive. And this happens even if there would be plenty of space on the tape in drive 1 for those backups.
Also, it seems to sometime fight itself for tapes. I get data cyclic redundancy check errors when using multiple drives in a library. I had to bring the number of drives back down to 2, from 5.
Is there any way to mitigate this? I checked the update roll up change logs and it doesn't look like this was fixed. I will, however, upgrade to update roll up 10 within the next month.
Thank you
Hi I try rescan tape library but end with error . In the error log is . Can I remove duplicates , or clean rows and run inventory . I do not have backup in the tape .
Connection to the DPM service has been lost.
Falcon
Hello,
my Tape are going to be old and someone become CRC Errors.
Now, how to Exchange this Tapes to new ones?
Should i use the same Barcode?
Windows 2012 R2
System Center 2012 R2 DPM
Hewlett Packard MSL G3 Series Library (x64 based)
Issue:
Our monthly tape backup schedule has successfully completed 437 jobs with 2 failed jobs. Both are file shares. They are schedule back up to local disk every night and this task has been successful without any issues.
Error message:
The back up to tape job failed for the following reason: (ID 3311)
View detailed errors:
ID 2019 details: an existing connection was forcibly close by remote host (0x90072746).
Troubleshooting taken:
Run backup to tape job again.Restart DPMRA services.
Restart DPM server.
Manual RP creation straight to tape.
Step 1.
Please add these registry values on DPM and Protected Server (Host) , restart DPMRA Service, then rerun cc or manual recovery point creation job,
Under "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft Data Protection Manager\Agent"
Add a DWORD value with name “ConnectionNoActivityTimeoutForNonCCJobs”
Set it to 7200 decimal.
Under "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft Data Protection Manager\Agent"
Add a DWORD with name “ConnectionNoActivityTimeout”
Set it to 7200 decimal.
Step 2.
Disable TCP Chimney on both DPM server and protected Server by running this command
Netsh int tcp set global chimney=disabled
I would appreciate any help in this matter.
Thanks.
We are running System Center 2012 r2 DPM, MS Server 2012 R2 and HP tape library. Device Manager reports that the medium changer is HP LTO Ultrium-6 drive.
DPM recognises the tape library and drives and will perform the basic operations, importing/exporting/moving/erasing media bit will not backup. The full error code is as follows: Description:
The Backup Job to tape failed for the following reason (ID3311) Detailed Errors: The operation failed because of a protection agent failure (ID 998 Details: Access is denied (0x80070005))
Recommended Action: Run Backup to tape job again...
I have tried changing the default drivers for the tape unit to the Microsoft LTO driver and it made no difference.
I have run the job again but it still fails. I have reinstalled the agent on the remote computer and have recreated the protection group, all of which fail.
Anyone have any suggestions to get this going again?
Thanks
Bill
DPM recognises the tape library and drives and will perform the basic
operations, importing/exporting/moving/erasing media bit will not backup. The
full error code is as follows:
Description: The Backup Job to tape failed for the following reason (ID3311)
Detailed Errors: The operation failed because of a protection agent failure
(ID 998 Details: Access is denied (0x80070005))
Recommended Action: Run Backup to tape job again...
I have tried changing the default drivers for the tape unit to the Microsoft LTO driver and it made no difference.
I have run the job again but it still fails. I have reinstalled the agent on
the remote computer and have recreated the protection group, all of which
fail. Any ideas?
Hello,
after upgrading my Tape Lib from LTO3 to LTO5 i do have now several Tapes that i do not want to use any more. In fact the Tape Report is showing me 73 LTO3 Tapes wich are expired. Some of them are lost and all the others i want to remove from the DB. I do have had a script with a Database query for DPM2010 but i don't know if it is supported for DPM2012 SP1 RU2 or RU3 ..
Could you please let me know what is the supported way to remove Tapes out of the DPM DB / tape Report.
Many Thanks in advance
Jan
Hi Guys,
I do apologise in advance for anything i explain poorly, DPM is not my strong point. I am currently trying to restore data from a backup tape, i have done this in the past 6 months perfectly fine. I have my tape in slot and I have identified the tape, it finds the tape fine and the data. I then select the data i wont to copy select the location i want to copy it to (either locally, elsewhere on a share or drive) then begin the copy. DPM displays the job has started and this can be viewed in job in progress. Around 20 seconds later (if no other jobs are running) DPM will return the error:
Connection to the DPM service has been lost. Review the application event log for information about a possible service shutdown. Veryify that the following services are not disabled: DPM | DPM Replication Agent | SQLAgest$MSSQLSERVER | MSSQL$MSQLSERVER | Virtual Disk Service | Volume Shadow Copy.
The event viewer gives the below:
The description for Event ID 943 from source MSDPM cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.All services are running the machine and services have been restarted. I have completed all updates, tried multiple tapes. I am just not sure what is going on with it. Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks!
I've been working in my current job for about 2 years. We're running DPM 2012 R2 on Server 2008 R2, and I'm relatively new to Microsoft's DPM product.
The previous network admin didn't do a very good job of managing tapes or paying attention to tape age. I have a huge number of tapes in a storage vault that haven't been rotated into the backups in a long time. The numbers on the barcodes on these tapes
are quite a bit lower than the current crop; I'm assuming they're quite old. I'd like to query the DPM to see if these tapes are actually in use and if so get a feel for how many times they've been written to. Basically, I want to identify any tapes that are
more than a year old AND have NOT been used in annual backups.
I'm assuming I'll need to build the report myself, but I've no idea what tools or tables I'd need to use. I do have sa-level access to the DPM database.
Any assistance y'all can throw my way is appreciated!
System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager UR9, recently deployed a new Tape Library "Hewlett Packard MSL G3 Series library (x64 based) (HP_MSL_4048) (Tape Drives: Hewlett Packard LTO Ultrium-6 drive )". Installed the drivers which were recommended on the HP Site. Reboot DPM Server after attaching the Library, reboot DPM Server after the installation of the drivers, reboot DPM Server once more because I couldn't see the Tape drives in the management tab of the DPM Console (problem resolved).
But still can't take the backups on the tape.....
Rescan, refresh and inventory steps are done a dozen time.
Error: "DPM failed to mount the tape in drive Hewlett Packard LTO Ultrium-6 drive (HUJ5515BAF) for the library Hewlett Packard MSL G3 Series library (x64 based). This is because DPM is not synchronized with the current state of the library. (ID 24077)"
Can anyone help me out??
Hi
I have some old tapes that have been removed due to physical failure but still appear in the tape management reports.
I've certainly come across some very old threads linking to a script to remove old tapes for DPM 2010/2012, however I've also come across a post suggesting that this old script not long works and corrupts the DPM 2012R2 database.
Can someone please confirm how I remove these with DPM 2012 R2?
Thanks
Hi guys,
Hoping you can help. My boss asked me to find out which tapes can be taken out of DPM - to drum up some kind of report (either via script or other) which shows tapes with an expired retention period? I didn't make much sense to be honest.
I think the scenario is - he is moving a bunch of servers across to a new DPM server and part of this I think is to re-catalogue a bunch of tapes which can be taken from the old DPM system. I think he wants to retain the old data on tapes but wants tapes
he can re-use for the new server...
I'm not too clued up on DPM so that's probably why it doesn't make much sense. IF it helps, he made reference to the Veritas back-up system and how if a tape was marked 'blue' it could be overwritten.
If you can make sense of any of the above it would help me - I will likely ask my boss again what he meant but thought I'd some guys here too.
Thanks - Travis
DPM Protection Group shows that a specific folder on a drive being backed up is being backed up. No alerts that the protection group is failing. (all green) However the specific folder does not show up when trying to restore it. All files and folders are available for restore above it. Any clues to, one, why this may be happening, and two, how to get the files and this folder to be backed up? (not listed in exception rules)
Thanks in advance.
One of our data sources has grown to the size that it is larger than will fit on a single LTO-5 tape. DPM is now unable to complete the backup. After prompting for a new tape which is then provided, it writes as much as will fit (~1.65TB) to the tape, then requests another tape. When the "run tape backup job again" is selected (due to waiting for tape timing out), it appears to write from the start and the job never completes.
When you select view tape contents of the partial tape, the warning message "DPM needs to recatalog the selected tape before it can display its contents. Do you want to recatalog the tape now?" comes up. Selecting Yes does absolutely nothing. Even after just doing an inventory of the library, it refuses to display the contents of the tape.
Is there any way to get DPM to back up a single data source bigger than a single tape? If we upgrade to 2016 is this issue resolved?
