Dpm 2012 sp1 replica is inconsistent liam matthews it. It looks like dpm is copying the files one by one to a vhdx in the backup area. System center data protection manager 2007 microsoft. This alert is generated when the replica of the specified volume on the dpm server is inconsistent with the data source. How to fix replica is inconsistent in dpm during backing. Note that sql protection shows manual replica creation pending state. Dpm manual creation of initial data set system center. Microsoft further disclaims all implied warranties including, without limitation, any implied warranties of merchantability or of fitness for a particular purpose. The dpm replica is the copy of the backup sourcethats stored on the dpm server and kept synchronizedwith the backup source. How to perform a manual initial replica on dpm modern backup. Due to the size of the data and the lack of bandwidth, im going to need to get the techs out there to copy the data portions of the servers onto usb drives and send them to me so i can impo. Dataprotectionmanager recovery to tape on inactive. Posts about system center data protection manager written by richardstk. Powershell script for consistency check when replica is.
Installing system center data protection manager scdpm 2007. It looks like dpm is copying the files one by one to a vh. The startdpmmanualreplicacreation cmdlet prepares a replica virtual hard disk vhd for manual data load on a system center 2019 data protection manager dpm server. Given that a synch updates the replica so it is an exact match, i am not understanding how it is possible to recover the database to how it was 2, 3. Dataprotectionmanager recovery to tape on inactive protection group i am using microsoft dpm 2007 sp1 and i have an inactive protection group with 3 volum. I have also done a manual install of the dpm agent onto the server. Connect to the sql server 2012 instance through the management studio. Ill cover the following topics in the code samples below. Fixing dpm 2007 inconsistent replica errors in exchange server. Apr, 2012 if you are looking for a 1s and 0s of how dpm 2007 works then you will need to find another resource, i recommend microsoft technet where you will find some great web casts that explain dpm.
Automatic creation, on the other hand, is best for fast networks or small amounts. How to manually create a sql replica in dpm 2012 r2. If dpm is protecting computers running exchange server 2007, the 32bit versions of. You can dismiss this alert after you have created the replica.
Jan 06, 2009 dpm determined that the file server shut down unexpectedly. Jan 26, 2015 once this command had completed all protection group members were marked as manual replica creation pending this would mean i would need to perform a consistency check on all protection group members. This is enforced at the time of database creation, and it will likely grow significantly. How to perform a manual initial replica on dpm modern. Troubleshooting exchange protection and recovery issues in dpm. All protection activities for the data source will fail until the replica is made consistent with the data source. My ms sql database backups few hundred gbs are done in a flash. System center data protection manager 2010 troubleshooting guide microsoft. You can set now, later, and manual as the replica creation method. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. Sometimes a replica becomes inconsistent because of a change journal overflow or an unexpected shutdown of the protected computer or if the storage volume has been surprise removed from dpm server, in this case a consistency check must be performed. Symptoms protection group member displays replica is inconsistent troubleshooting there is a large number of reasons you could be seeing this error, the two main areas to focus on are making sure that the backup feature is installed and the event viewer logs on the target server resolution 1 right click on the member and.
If a data source is protected with manual replica creation method, this cmdlet mounts the replica vhd and exposes the replica volume so that the dpm administrator can manually copy the data source data on the replica volume. Still replica inconsistent disabled circular logging on that storage group, had it enabled because it is a nonproduction storage group, still same errors when deleting and readding the protection. Installing system center data protection manager scdpm. To figure out the replica path select the datasource and click on click to view details next to replica path. Dec, 20 i recently setup a few vms to run dpm 2012. This is raised when you chose manual replica creation option when creating the protection gr.
Stop protection of storage group mm and readd the protection to trigger a new replica creation, to no avail. Dpm needs 120 tb per dpm server, with 80 tb replica space with a maximum recovery point size of 40 tb. After creating protection group,includes sql 2012 dbs, dpm showed me replica is consistent for all databases. This alert is generated when dpm fails to create a recovery point for a data source. Startdpmmanualreplicacreation dataprotectionmanager. Two file servers in particular both have 100gb g and 150gb h drives with about 20gb of data on each dont ask. System center data protection managerwindows server, backup, disk, consistency, and console. First published on technet on feb 07, 2017 dpm can backup a variety of. If you specify now for disk, system center 2019 data protection manager dpm starts replication as soon as you create the protection group. Cannot perform creation of a recovery point on a replica which is pending manual replica creation id. This is an error that was originally fixed in dpm 2007 with a hotfix. How to start dpmra services for microsoft dpm 2007. If you are looking for a 1s and 0s of how dpm 2007 works then you will need to find another resource, i recommend microsoft technet where you will find some great web casts that explain dpm. Once this command had completed all protection group members were marked as manual replica creation pending.
System center data protection manager 2007 is a member of the microsoft system center family of management products, which are designed to help it professionals manage their windows server infrastructure. If a daily consistency check is scheduled, dpm will automatically perform the consistency check at the next scheduled time. You can use data protection manager dpm 2007 to protect exchange server. Dpm manual creation of initial data set system center data. Dpm determined that the file server shut down unexpectedly. There is not enough space on the disk 0x80070070 assuming youre not actually out of space, the replica size just needs to be increased.
The replica has not been created on the replica volume. Dpm 2010 and exchange 2007 replica inconsistent storage. In this two part article, we show you how to install and configure dpm and evaluate how this can be integrated into your overall security strategy. Manual replica creation pending no agent on cluster node recovery failure recovery in progress. Make sure all installed agents have no sign reboot pending. Installing system center data protection manager scdpm 2007 on windows server 2008 stepbystep guide. In part 1, we covered the process of installing the dpm prerequisite software, dpm itself, the file agent software and the enduser recovery client software. Instructor in this demonstration ill troubleshootdpm replica inconsistencies. No pending members will be discovered by auto discovery for a computer with a.
System center data protection manager sc dpm has a builtin mechanism to autoheal if the protected data becomes inconsistent with its replica. Manual creation is ideal if you have a slow network or if you have to create a replica of a large amount of data. Sep 14, 2011 manual creation is ideal if you have a slow network or if you have to create a replica of a large amount of data. There doesnt appear to be any documentation on the technet site for any release of dpm that explains how you create manual replicas for resources like sql server, exchange it suggests you can, and you can make those resources go into manual replica creation pending but it does not make it at all clear how you actually achieve this. I find it awfully slow for working on a file server a million files, around 5tb of data so something quite small. Dec 09, 2010 in no event shall microsoft, its authors, or anyone else involved in the creation, production, or delivery of the scripts be liable for any damages whatsoever including, without limitation, damages for loss of business profits, business interruption, loss of business information, or other pecuniary loss arising out of the use of or inability. Bear in mind that all material is ed by the author or by its respective owners.
Microsoft data protection heaven and backup exec hell. With dpm you may get errors that the dpm is out of disk space for the replica. The pg is setup to do a synchronization just before a recovery point at 10pm every day thats it basically a 24hr rpo. The next page will show you the allocate replica and protection group creation status. In dpm 2007 and dpm 2012, run setagentconfig to configure dpm to use another port. Do the following to protect the microsoft sql server 2012 database. Dec 24, 2016 there doesnt appear to be any documentation on the technet site for any release of dpm that explains how you create manual replicas for resources like sql server, exchange it suggests you can, and you can make those resources go into manual replica creation pending but it does not make it at all clear how you actually achieve this. But for a variety of reasons over time you might have issues where. If you are looking for the specifics on some the items reference in this article then bing will be your friend. Ensure that the replica is in replica creation pending state before recovering. This results in a new protected datasource with the status. Dpm runs out of bitmap space on the protected server. How to start dpmra services for microsoft dpm 2007 solutions.
I was then able to delete the missing disk and all was well eventually with dpm. On the dpm server, create a folder to which you can restore the files. Dpm estimates the amount of disk space it needs for replica and recovery point volumes estimated on what it thinks the growth rate will be, as a result ive found it can often allocate that volumes that are too large, especially if you enabled autogrow you can shrink the volumes though to recover this over estimated space. My first question was does dpm 2012 fully support sql server 2012. Today i have installed and set data protection manager 2012r2 with cumulative update 2for my client and when i have created a system state protection, i came across this error. The dpm replica is the copy of the backup source thats stored on the dpm server and kept synchronized with the backup source. For details on recovering a dpm server, refer to the dpm 2007 operations guide. Creating a manual initial replica microsoft system center data. The replica was valid but the administrator opted to run a consistency check. Dpm agent installed on protected server running windows server 2008 r2 sp1. Jun 01, 20 there doesnt appear to be any documentation on the technet site for any release of dpm that explains how you create manual replicas for resources like sql server, exchange it suggests you can, and you can make those resources go into manual replica creation pending but it does not make it at all clear how you actually achieve this. You can perform a onetime manual consistency check as shown in.
Installing and configuring microsofts data protection. How to fix replica is inconsistent in dpm during backing up. To recover the dpm database when the database is corrupt or you have had to rebuild your dpm server for whatever reason install dpm 2007. You could try right clicking on one of your protection groups and. All of my servers are virtual in vmware, except for 2. Recovering dpm database after server rebuild gareths blog. But for a variety of reasons over time you might haveissues where there are replica inconsistencies. Im not sure if this is due to me using iscsi disks in a highrely appliance or the dpm setup itself. Disclaimer the sample scripts are not supported under any microsoft standard support program or service. Manual replica creation pending to figure out the replica path select the datasource and click on click to view details next to replica path. Dpm agent reported unavailable or initial replica creation stuck. My problem is, the replicas are taking a painfully long time to be created. If so, just delete reg setting hklm\software\microsoft\microsoft data protection.
No pending members will be discovered by auto discovery for a computer with a protected share if. To protect this maximum size, dpm needs 120 tb per dpm server, with 80 tb replica space with a maximum recovery point size of 40 tb. When you create a protection group, you can define how the dpm sever should create the initial replica of the protected data source. Unfortunately, the menu option to modify disk allocation isnt selectable.
Manual replica pending 3118 monitors public mpwiki. The client is installed, and i dont think it is an issue with connecting to the server since my sql databases, shares, and user profiles on the same servers are working fine. Dpm agent reported unavailable or initial replica creation. You cannot add more recovery points because the maximum number of recovery points for the entire retention range is. The resolution was to change the netlogon service from manual to automatic. The setdpmreplicacreationmethod cmdlet sets the replica creation method for diskbased protection. This is raised when you chose manual replica creation option when creating the protection group. If you are looking for the specifics on some the items reference in this. Dpm failed to communicate with the protection agent on. Aug 02, 2005 in this two part article, we show you how to install and configure dpm and evaluate how this can be integrated into your overall security strategy. I am using microsoft dpm 2007 installed on windows 2008 r2 64bit machine.
Net framework all protected computers need at least. When the remove from group window appears be sure that the checkbox next to. System center data protection manager richard skinner. Data protection manager 2007 dpm help system center. In this post we are first going to look at the manual process of marking protected data inactive and then bringing it back into an active state. We have a dpm 2010 server weve been using for a few years but the agents are now pointing to the 2012 version. Dpm 2010 and exchange 2007 replica inconsistent storage group. But and thats the problem shortly after the inital replica creation process it fails and event id 1 from source dpm em replica is inconsistent is logged.
Possible owner nodes have been added for a protected cluster resource. Aug 09, 20 ive got several remote office locations with file servers containing a good amount of data, but they have very poor 3mbps wan connections. All protection activities for the data source will fail until the replica is made consistent with the data source by performing synchronization with consistency check. It monitors key health and performance indicators on dpm servers.
C,d, systemstate are all backing up fine, but drive on each file server doesnt want to sync. Apr 14, 20 how to fix replica is inconsistent in dpm during backing up sql 2012 dbs. This opens a new dialog window details of replica path where youll find the source and destination path of your datasource. The selected data cannot be recovered to the dpm server because the replica is not in the replica creation pending state. In part 2, well show you how to configure your dpm server to protect data, and how end. Click on click to view details next to replica path. Troubleshooting data protection issues center studylib. Dataprotectionmanager recovery to tape on inactive protection. Romain serre in data protection manager april 25, 2014 2 comments 17,520 views. Im looking to create an initial data set from the client onto a usb drive and then relocateimport it to the dpm server i cant copy the data over the network, there is too little bandwidth i need to use a. When attempting to install the agent on the servers to be protected running windows 2003 r2 32bit machine i receive the following error. Saars, thanks, but this is just a simple rewording of the link i included in my original post. Your link and the link above talk about moving data off a dpm server to another location. This is raised when you chose manual replica creation option when.
Ive been tasked to set up dpm to back up these locations. The sample scripts are provided as is without warranty of any kind. I have a fileserver with an 8tb volume for which ms dpm is doing a consistency check, its now running 16 hours and it is probably less than 30% through the volume. Agent reported unavailable, however backup time occur, backup is successful. Consolidation of recovery points of the replica failed for system state computer\systemstate on when one of the 1 express full backup 2 consistency check 3 recovery id 3178 dpm does not have sufficient storage space available on the recovery point volume to create new recovery points. Preparing your environment for system center 2012 r2 data protection manager dpm. Issues virtual server protection issues manual replica creation issues incompatible filter. If you do not specify a value, the default replica creation method is now. Replica is inconsistent 3106 monitors public mpwiki. Make sure that the replica is in replica creation pending state before recovering. Modify replica size with powershell erics tech adventures.
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