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Team Foundation Server 2010 to SharePoint White Paper

July 29, 2011 by sbuchanan

For you devs out there, A colleague of mine Luke Grindahl recently published a white paper about the pro/cons of the different deployment methods when deploying from Team Foundation Server 2010 to SharePoint. You can download the whitepaper here: http://www.repliweb.com/resources/lp/tfs2010_shp_whitepaper.php

Mark Inactive Protected Data Active in DPM

July 16, 2011 by sbuchanan

I have seen issues on DPM forums where others have recovered from DPM failures and their protected data becomes inactive or other issues such as the data suddenly becoming inactive on its own placing the data in a category named “Inactive protection for previously protected data”. It is not clear how to mark protected data … Read more

Backing up Applications with DPM

July 16, 2011 by sbuchanan

We all know that DPM can protect basic Windows Servers 2003 through 2008 R2 including files, folders, and critical server components like system state and do BMR’s of servers. DPM can also protect Windows application specific workloads. I often see confusion or questions in forums about the applications that can be protected natively by DPM. In this post I will set out to list the applications DPM protects natively and list resources to other common applications and where to get the information on properly backing them up.

Dropbox cloud backup for DPM

July 10, 2011 by sbuchanan

Yegor Startsev has completed a new post on how to use Dropbox (www.dropbox.com) as a cloud backup solution for DPM. This is done with the help of Firestreamer (http://www.cristalink.com/fs/). Yegor does a good job of detailing out the solution and design and then how he was able to set this up so that you can … Read more

Congratulations to New DPM MVP’s

July 4, 2011 by sbuchanan

I want to say congratulations to a friend of mine Yegor Startsev on receiving the Microsoft DPM MVP award. It is well deserved. You can read about it and other DPM topics on his blog here: http://tinyurl.com/DPM-Blog-Yegor-Startsev Also Congratulations to Matt Marlor who also became a DPM MVP July 1st. He blogs at http://www.autechheads.com/

Microsoft Dogfooding DPM

July 1, 2011 by sbuchanan

I saw a post today on my friend Yegor’s blog about Microsoft converting their entire internal data protection to DPM 2010. Here is Yegor’s post: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&langpair=ru|en&u=http://ystartsev.wordpress.com It is good to see Microsoft "Drinking the Kool-Aid" by relying solely on DPM. There is some really good data in this case study and shows the true savings … Read more

mbstring PHP extension was not found

June 12, 2011 by sbuchanan

I was getting an error message when I accessed phpMyAdmin. The error was: "The mbstring PHP extension was not found and you seem to be using a multibyte charset. Without the mbstring extension phpMyAdmin is unable to split strings correctly and it may result in unexpected results. " This error means that mbstring PHP extension … Read more

Hyper-V Live Migration Not working

June 2, 2011 by sbuchanan

I recently setup a Hyper-V cluster on Windows Server 2008 R2. Live Migration & failover would not work. Quick Migration would work. I also could only see the CSV (Cluster Shared Volume) on one NODE at a time. I then noticed this error in the cluster event logs: Cluster Shared Volume ‘Volume1’ (‘Cluster Disk 2’) … Read more

Protecting SharePoint 2010 with DPM 2010

June 2, 2011 by sbuchanan

Original Post: http://sharepoint.mindsharpblogs.com/steve/archive/2011/06/02/Protecting-SharePoint-2010-with-DPM-2010.aspx

DPM 2010 is an optimal backup/restore application for SharePoint 2010. Here are a few reasons why DPM is a good solution for protecting SharePoint 2010:

DPM is aware that it’s backing up SharePoint. This means it knows about all the transactions that are occurring during backup and therefore you get a more consistent backup of the data.
DPM can protect SharePoint search.
Automatically protect new content databases when added to your SharePoint farm.
DPM is light with low I/O when it is backing up SharePoint getting only the changes during protection meaning your production environment will not take a performance hit.
DPM will let you perform item level restores of SharePoint objects such as SharePoint sites, documents, lists, and other objects.
One of the best reasons is that with the release of SharePoint 2010 a recovery farm is no longer required to perform restores, DPM 2010 takes full advantage of this feature so that you can perform a restore without a recovery farm right from DPM to your SharePoint.

Lets take a look at how you would start Protecting SharePoint 2010 with DPM 2010. Before you can backup SharePoint with DPM the configurations and prerequisites have to be met. We are going to cover these requirements as well as the steps to protect your SharePoint environments.

Here are the steps to start protecting your SharePoint environment.

Migrating from DPM 2007 to DPM 2010

June 2, 2011 by sbuchanan

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