In order to carry out item level recovery of SharePoint 2010 using System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM) you may need to update the DPM catalog. I was testing SharePoint 2010 recovery using DPM and got a shock when a site and page I setup for the testing weren’t listed as being available for recovery [...]
If you take a backup from Central Administration -> Operations -> Perform Backup, there’s no built-in way to remove old backups. To clear up unwanted backups: Navigate to the backup share and take a backup of spbrtoc.xml. This file contains information about the backups. Within spbrtoc.xml each SPHistoryObject node corresponds to a backup. Take a note [...]
On System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2010 with March 2011 hotfix I got the following error when backing up to tape: ID 30101 Details: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error (0x8007045D) This is an error that was originally fixed in DPM 2007 with a hotfix http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970868 , but reappeared on [...]
I’ve used System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) since the 2007 beta, primarily for SharePoint and SQL backups. I have a primary DPM server which backs up to disk and a secondary server which backs up to disk and additionally to a Overland Storage REO 4500 iSCSI Virtual Tape Library (VTL) for long term protection. Both servers have [...]
Autonomy IDOL enables you to scheduled a backup of its index to local disk. I wanted to use Backup Exec to backup the Autonomy backup. The Backup Exec agent was installed, but the service was refusing to start. By default the Backup Exec agent service communicates on port 10,000, which was being used by IDOL. Changing [...]
I enabled a maintenance plan on a SQL server which creates a full backup of all databases. When checking the job history I noticed that the job had failed. Upon further investigation I could see that although the job had failed, all the databases had been backed up. Opening the job log revealled the following [...]
I was recently trying to backup a server using Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery (BESR) 2010. Unfortunately, BESR was refusing to create a backup. A support call to Symantec pointed us to the PartInfo.exe tool, located in C:\Program Files\Symantec\Backup Exec System Recovery\Utility. Running this tool creates a text file called partinfo.txt in the same folder. [...]
