DPM 2006 Server Archive/Backup and Restore Procedure
In this article, I will show you the flow of the Data Protection Manager 2006 server archive/backup and restore procedure.
I recommend that you should have the basic concept and knowledge of DPM 2006 first, you can read the DPM Planning and Deployment Guide and Operations Guide to learn more about DPM 2006. They are very useful!
Archive/Backup
1. Backup the System State, Services, Applications by using ASR backup in Windows backup.
2. Backup the Shadow Copies of Replicas, DPM Database (DPMDB.mdf) and Report Database (ReportServer.mdf) by using DpmBackup.
3. Store the archive/backup files to tape or other media.
Restore System State, Services and Applications
4. Run the Windows Setup and start the ASR restore or reinstall Windows Server and DPM if needed. Please remember to use the same computer name as the old DPM server.
Restore Databases
5. Use DpmSync -DpmDbLoc and -DpmReportDbLoc to restore the DPM Database and Report Database.
6. Run DpmSync -Sync to synchronize the databases.
7. Remove the missing disks and add the new disks to DPM storage pool if needed.
8 . Run DpmSync -ReallocateReplica to reallocate disk space for the replicas.
Restore Replicas
9. Use the backup software to restore the replicas' shadow copies backup.
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a)If the tape backup from which you restored data was created by using DpmBackup and the protected volume GUID has not changed since backup, run DpmPathMerge to delete extraneous path information.
b)Use FsPathMerge to delete extraneous path information if
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You are restoring a replica where the backup hierarchy and the replica folder hierarchy do not match, and the backup was not created by using DpmBackup. |
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The backup was created by using DpmBackup and the volume GUID of the protected volume changed between the backup time and restore time. |
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a)If you need to restore the volume on protected files server, Create a shadow copy of the restored replica at this point in the process, you can restore the volume to the file server. Do not run the consistency check on any replica in the protection group until all replicas in the protection group are restored.
b)If it is the restoration on a new DPM server, Please uninstall the File Server agent locally, Remove the agent record in DPM, and then use DPM administrator console to reinstall the agent.
12. Run synchronization with consistency check