Extend DPM Schema manually

In one of the project, somehow or rather, not be able to use DPM management console to extend the schema. Lots of people is looking for the manual way to extend DPM schema. There is also a time why you need to do so, to extend this feature to other trusted domain users to have end user recovery.

Steps:

Copy the following file in DPM server \Program Files\Microsoft Data Protection Manager\DPM\End User Recovery\DPMADSchemaExtension.exe. Run it in your forest. (Note: you will need to have schema admin and domain admin on the forest)

In the Enter Data Protection Manager Computer Name dialog box, type the name of the computer for which you want end-user recovery data in Active Directory Domain Services, and then click OK.

Type the DNS domain name of the DPM computer for which you want end-user recovery data in Active Directory Domain Services, and then click OK.

In the Active Directory Configuration for Data Protection Manager dialog box, click OK.

Wait for a while, it will then show you the result.

Once extended, you can then enable the end user recovery by:

In DPM Administrator Console, on the Action menu, click Options.

In the Options dialog box, on the End-user Recovery tab, select the check box for the Enable end-user recovery option, and then click OK.

Multiple protection group to one tape (Data Colocation)

In DPM 2007, one protection group to allocate in one tape.

However, DPM 2007 allows to collocate protection groups on a tape. Then, you can group recovery points of multiple protection groups on a single tape. This will save the tape if you have lots of protection group. This feature, called Data Colocation.

To enable and disable this feature, please download and install KB 949779 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=122329).

After install the update, you can then enable or disable data colocation using DPM Management Shell.

Set-DPMGlobalProperty -DPMServerName -OptimizeTapeUsage $True

Install DPM Agent manually

In the recent class and projects, lots of the students and customers would like to install DPM once they implement a server - this is a good news.

However, how can we do so? There are two things here: Install DPM Agent manually and associate it with DPM Server.

To install DPM Agent manually, there are few ways - install it with SCCM/SMS, distribute via Active Directory group policy or even install it manually.

1) In a DPM source CD, locate Microsoft DPM\DPM\Agents\RA\2.0.5820.0\i386 (use AM64 if install in a 64 bit machine)

2) run DpmAgentInstaller.exe /q .

Now, the agent is installed. To enable firewall exeption,

1) type :\Program Files\Microsoft Data Protection Manager\bin\ SetDpmServer.exe – dpmServerName .

To associate the DPMA with DPM server,

2) On the DPM server, from the DPM Management Shell prompt, type Attach-ProductionServer.ps1 .

DPM - Installing DPM Agent

Before you protect your data/application on certain server, like other backup application, you will need to install its client agent. In DPM 2007, you will need to install DPM 2007 client.

For mass deployment, you can either deploy using AD GPO, SCCM 2007, install using DPM 2007 console or install manually.

In the following video, we will share on how to install using DPM 2007 console.

Video: How to install DPM 2007 agent.
Desc: This video will show on how to install DPM 2007 agent using DPM 2007 console.

DPM 2007 - Intro with Video

Guys,

Long time never post any articles here. Recently, prepared a training for Microsoft Malaysia's customer. Managed to come out some video about DPM 2007.

Why DPM 2007? Yes this is Microsoft version of backup. Simple answer, because this is developed by Microsoft and it works well with Microsoft products! Windows, Files and Folders, Applications like SQL, Exchange +++. We will share the top reasons why DPM 2007 in our next posts.

Attached some video to share with you guys. We are producing more video. Come back to this blog for more stuff.

Video 1: Installing DPM 2007.
Desc: You will see the steps to install DPM 2007 here. Please search for another post on installing SQL for DPM manually.

Cheers