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Migrating from DPM 2007 to DPM 2010

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Original Article: http://www.packtpub.com/article/installing-data-protection-manager-2010

With the DPM upgrade you will face some of the same issues as with the installation such as what are the prerequisites? is your operating system patched? and is DPM 2007 fully patched and ready for the upgrade? This article will walk you through each step of the DPM installation process during the first half and the DPM 2007 to DPM 2010 upgrade in the second half. After reading this article you should know what to look for when working through the prerequisites and requirements.

Migrating from DPM 2007 to DPM 2010

Microsoft has released an upgrade adviser tool for upgrading from DPM 2007 to DPM 2010. You will need to run this to see if your current DPM 2007 is ready for the upgrade. This is a tool that asks you a series of questions and it will give you the recommended steps to take in order to upgrade your DPM from 2007 to 2010. This tool is an excel file and can be downloaded at the following page:

Here are what the questions are and what the tool looks like:

Installing Data Protection Manager 2010

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Installing Data Protection Manager 2010

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Original Article: http://www.packtpub.com/article/installing-data-protection-manager-2010

Microsoft Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2010 is a backup and recovery solution which provides continuous data protection for Windows application and file servers to seamlessly integrated disk, tape, and cloud.

The DPM installation as well as the upgrade process is pretty straightforward. The areas where the DPM installation can get tricky are prerequisites, hardware and software requirements, as well as making sure your operating system is properly updated and patched. All of these things need to be met or completed before you can start the DPM installation.

In this article by Steve Buchanan, author of Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2010, shall cover the following topics:

  • Installing DPM
  • Installing Single Instance Store (SIS)
  • Installing DPM (on a local or remote SQL instance)

Prerequisites

In this section we will jump right into the prerequisites for DPM and how to install them as well as the two different ways to install DPM. We will first visit the hardware and software requirements, and a pre-install that is needed before you are able to actually install DPM 2010.

Hardware requirements

DPM 2010 requires a processor of 1 GHz (dual-core or faster), 4 GB of RAM or higher, the page file should be set to 1.5 or 2 times the amount of RAM on the computer. The DPM disk space requirements are as follows:

  • DPM installation location needs 3 GB free
  • Database file drive needs 900 MB free
  • System drive needs 1 GB free
  • Disk space for protected data should be 2.5 to 3 times the size of the protected data

DPM also needs to be on a dedicated, single purpose computer.

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System Center Center Essentials 2010: Cannot initialize report.

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When trying to access “Essentials Reports” in System Center Essentials (SCE) reporting you get this error: Cannot initialize report. This error is because your System Center “Run As” account does not have SQL select permission on the SUSDB database. To fix this you simply need to give this account the proper permission. To do this … Read more

CentOS supported on Hyper-V

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Microsoft officially supports CentOS on Hyper-V now. This is great news because CentOS is the flavor of Linux i prefer to use. I will go back to running this instead of SUSE on Hyper-V. Here is a great blog post about installing the integration for CentOS running on Hyper-V: http://www.ms4u.info/2011/05/centos-added-as-supported-guest.html Here is a link on … Read more

Manually Update DPM Agent Version

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— I have seen some questions on how to manually update DPM agent version in a few DPM forums.  PROBLEM: DPM has been upgraded but the Protected Server Agents have not been upgraded. In the DPM administrator console you do not have an option to upgrade the agent because the option is “greyed out”. SOLUTION: … Read more

Backing up QuickBooks Enterprise with DPM

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Traditionally QuickBooks backup has been done manually using the backup utility that is built inside of QuickBooks itself or using the paid online backup service from Intuit. My company runs QuickBooks Enterprise and I needed a way to automatically back this up using DPM. Well you can automate the backup of QuickBooks using DPM but you have to be sure you are getting the right stuff.

You will need to set DPM to backup the QBW file along with some other folders and files. Here are the details:

  • QBW stands for QuickBooks Working file. This file is your QuickBooks data file and contains all of your QuickBooks data it is typically in the following folder %systemdrive%:\Quickbooks\ or %systemsrive%:\Program Files\Intuit\QuickBooks version\. You may have changed this default folder during the installation of QuickBooks.
  • Transaction log – The Transaction log logs all changes to the company file before they are actually committed to the .qbw folder. This will be in the same folder as the QuickBooks company file the .qbw file. This file will be in this format: [company file name].qbw.tlg. This will need to be restored along with the .qbw file and placed in the same folder.

NOTE: The Transaction log is only cleared out when a complete backup of QuickBooks is run using the backup utility directly in QuickBooks. Backing up the files automatically with DPM will not clear this and the same is true if you were using Inuit Online Backups or another backup program. It is a good idea to go into QuickBooks periodically and run a backup using the backup utility so that your transaction log does not get to big.

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Hot off the Press: Data Protection Manager 2010

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— Packt Publishing released my book on Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2010 today. Who’s it for? If you are a Network Administrator, System Administrator, Backup Administrator, Storage Administrator or IT consultant who wants to effectively back up your business data using Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2010, then this book is for you. What’s it about? … Read more

Remove SIP & Pool Info from AD accounts

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I recently moved from OCS 2007 to Lync 2010. We decided to remove the OCS 2007 deployment and start over fresh with Lync as OCS was deployed before our time and did not seem like a clean deployment. When uninstalling we ran into some errors when un-prepping the forest and domain using LCSCmd.exe. We did get OCS uninstalled so we decided to move forward.

I was able to get Lync 2010 deployed just fine. However when I went to add users that existed on the OCS 2007 deployment to the new Lync 2010 pool and Lync would not let me add them

Lync gave an error message of “Filter failed to return unique result, “[SipAddress: sip: user@domain.com]” due to their Active Directory accounts having the old SIP address and pool information on them.

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What I did to fix this is removed the old pool and SIP address from the accounts of the users in Active Directory. Here are the steps:

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Tether Android without root access

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I found this app on the Android Market called Easytether. It shares your Android phone Internet connection with your laptop or PC. This app does not require root access and it is supported on Windows XP/Vista/7 , MAC and Linux. There are two versions of this app the Lite version and the paid version. There … Read more

DPM vs. Symantec Backup Exec

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Have you ever been asked how DPM holds up to Symantec Backup Exec? I have. Up until today I have not been able to find a decent report about this only forum threads. This is the best comparison I have been able to find on DPM vs. Symantec Backup Exec http://www.milesconsultingcorp.com/MS-Data-Protection-Manager-vs-Symantec-Backup-Exec.aspx . It is by a DPM … Read more