Top Support Solutions for System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager

We’ve gathered together the top Microsoft Support solutions for the most common issues experienced when using Microsoft System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager (updated quarterly).

1. Solutions related to File server backup and restore:

• Troubleshooting Data Protection Issues
• System Protection Issues
• Troubleshooting Data Recovery Issues
• System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager Survival Guide
• DPM Server becomes unresponsive / hangs when protecting Storage Server SIS enabled volume
• Support Tip: Mounted volumes within mounted volumes cannot be backed up in DPM
• Optimizations in protecting SQL databases with high churn by DPM

2. Solutions related to DPM Console Crashes, Hangs, and Performance Solutions related to DPM Console crashes:

• Troubleshooting Performance Issues
• Troubleshooting General DPM Issues
• Resolving DPM Console Issues using Powershell and SQL manipulation
• The Data Protection Manager database grows and the console crashes after installing Update Rollup 3
• Troubleshooting System Center 2012 - Data Protection Manager
• System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager Survival Guide

3. Solutions related to Setup, Installation, and Secondary DPM Server Protection (DR)

• System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager upgrade fails with ID: 4323 and "A member could not be added"
• Upgrade to DPM 2012 fails if you use a manually installed instance of SQL Server 2008 R2
• Troubleshooting DPM Installation Issues
• Troubleshooting Data Recovery Issues
• Issues that occur after you deploy System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager SP1
• DPM Certificate Troubleshooting–Part 1: General Troubleshooting

4. Solutions related to Exchange Server backup:

• Exchange Server Protection Issues
• Exchange Server Recovery Issues
• Restoring Exchange 2010 Mailbox Databases to RDB using System Center Data Protection Manager
• Exchange 2010 DAG Passive Node Visibility and the EnableVSSWriter Regkey in Data Protection Manager
• Secondary Protection and Exchange 2010 DAG Node Protection in System Center Data Protection Manager
• Troubleshooting Data Protection Issues
• System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager Survival Guide

5. Solutions related to SQL Server protection

• SQL 2012 AlwaysOn protection in Data Protection Manager fails with Internal error code 0x80990F75
• Support Tip: Optimized ILR feature of DPM 2012 for SharePoint recovery fails with clustered SQL server
• You receive "Unknown error (0x80040e37)" in System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 when you try to create recovery points for SQL Server or SharePoint databases
• Troubleshooting Data Protection Issues
• Protecting SQL Servers
• Managing Clustered SQL Servers
• Support Tip: After installing DPM 2012 R2 SQL prep on a remote SQL instance already used by shared DPM 2012 SP1 databases, scheduled jobs for those servers no longer run
• Update Rollup 3 for DPM 2012 Service Pack 1 is now available

Comments

• Anonymous
  July 09, 2014
  Good idea.
• Anonymous
  August 14, 2014
  how about 6. Solutions related to Tape backup protection ? This is where I see most problems with DPM implementations.