No support for LTO6 tape drives yet – HP revises firmware for tape libraries and autoloaders
In December HP released firmware upgrades to all its major tape libraries and autoloaders to support the new LTO 6 generation drives. Today I received a brand new HP StoreEver MSL LTO-6 Ultrium 6250 SAS-Drive and before upgrading the library I wanted to install the...
The way through Data Protection Manager 2012 SP1 upgrade
Yesterday I installed SP1 on my DPM 2012 server – see the screenshots below. The setup itself was ok, but the problems began when updating the protection agents on Windows Server 2012 systems. Welcome Screen of Microsoft System Center 2012 Data Protection...
How to get a list of all tapes a System Center DPM Server knows about?
I have a long list of DPM tapes – a very long list… and most of them are offline. But how would you know what data is stored on what tape? Jeff Wouters wrote a blogpost about it at...
Strange behavior with Data Protection Manager End User Recovery feature or not?
I recently activated the End User Recovery feature of Data Protection Manager 2012. I did the schema extension – which by the way added a ms-BackupSrv-Share attribute a ms-ProductionSrv-Share attribute a ms-SrvShareMapping class and a MS-ShareMapConfiguration...How to get the number of volumes used by DPM 2010?
Just a quick hit that tells you how many volumes Microsoft Data Protection Manager uses. I got 848… [code lang=”powershell”] $dpmserver = $env:computername #localhost or type your dpm server’s name here $dpmdisks = get-dpmdisk -dpmservername...Tape Label Studio
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