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I think I explained earlier that my DPM 2007 product does not get updated by Microsoft update. I tried reseting Windows Update components, but that didn't help: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971058 I've discovered I'm a little bit behind on hot fixes,
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For some reason, my DPM server doesn't seem to pick up on updates from Microsoft, so I occasionally scan download.microsoft.com for any updates. Today, I found a new hotfix download for DPM 2007: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=8a551a13-270e-46c0-91ee-4a6d3d8bf034
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Launched at the start of December 2008 apparently. I'm not clear as to how the Hyper-V protection will work though - Will we have to pause Hyper-V guests or not during protection? More details here: http://blogs.technet.com/jbuff/archive/2008/11/24/what-is-new-for-protecting-sharepoint-with-dpm-2007-sp1-technet-edge-video.asp
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If you have multiple storage groups with the same data retention policies, you can now colocate the data on the same tapes as long as you have installed the DPM 2007 feature pack . Most useful if you have a single drive rather than a library. It's not
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The feature pack that is supposed to fix quite a few issues was released on the 1st July. I seemed to have missed it even though my DPM server is subscribed to Windows Update. Found out about it here: http://blogs.technet.com/dpm/archive/2008/07/01/dpm-2007-rollup-update-now-available.aspx
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I recently modifed my DPM 2007 installation to backup my local users folder on Windows Vista Ultimate x64. This would not work and kept producing the following event logs when I attemted to manually sync the share: Log Name: Application Source: Application
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After rebooting my Exchange server because of DNS issue, the DPM protection stopped. Further investigation found this in the event log: The DPMRA service terminated with service-specific error 10048 (0x2740). Google found this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947682
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When changing the PG (Protection Group) that my server belongs to, I normally get this error message: DPM cannot protect \\CHEF2.thefoleyhouse.co.uk\Optical Drive\. The recycle bin, the System Volume Information folder, non-NTFS volumes, DFS links, CDs,
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Having fixed my SQL 2005 issues with DPM 2007, I found my main production SQL database was missing from the list of resources available to be protected. When attempting a normal SQL backup, I got an error message telling me that the Full Text Index was
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I had the following scenario: DPM 2007 Running on Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 (x86) SQL 2005 Standard (x86) running on Windows Server 2008 (x64) DPM would not protect the SQL databases, and kept giving errors that the protection was "inconsistant". There
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