The process is pretty much undocumented as far as TechNet goes - there is a vague explanation but it doesn't cover several obvious and common scenarios whatsoever. Traditionally we've not really had any need to get initial replicas via anything but the LAN/WAN links already in place, but more recently we had a few scenarios where it sounded like it could be a winner. There are some annoying quirks and on the whole when it does have a problem of some sort it tends to be communication with server issues, and the error numbers, messages and explanations are pretty hopeless in many cases, which does take the shine off an otherwise decent product.īut one area that we have recently been exploring in more depth is the "Manual Replica" feature. We don't tend to post here very often anymore, mostly because it's rare there's anything much to say since we moved away from Backup Exec (which seems to be just as bad as ever when I recently evaluated it to see if it had improved).ĭata Protection Manager does, on the whole do a damn good job of making backups work reliably. Hopefully this will help someone else with a similar issue! Simply recreate a folder called "MTA" and you'll then find everything is working just fine again - re-run those consistency checks and then make a recovery point with synchronisation and all will be well. The folder "MTA" had been removed as part of a clear up of old temporary resources, and despite this folder not being actively used during a backup it seems not having it breaks DPM. "C:\Program Files\Microsoft System Center 2012\DPM\DPM\Temp" the installation path for DPM includes a temp folder, for example: You'd play the usual game of running consistency checks, or consistency & synchronisation but the job goes to "OK" for a while - but the ability to make a new recovery point is missing (eg the "Create a recovery point after synchronizing") option is unavailable, and a short while later a protected volume would return to "replica is inconsistent" state.Īfter much head scratching and monitoring, we realised it was very simple. I am still looking for the right solution.It's been a while, but we've recently come across a ridiculous error situation with DPM that caused a random subset of Protected Servers to just stop backing up.Įach Volume or resource would be in "Replica is inconsistent" state. I have not evaluated the product but I think it would behave the same as Simpana. Since NetApp SnapProtect is a subset of Simpana. As the product sits today I cannot justify the cost. The subclient feature that allows specifying folders to backup felt very limiting. They said it will be added at some point. It cannot browse volumes for folder backup or restore destination. I PoC’d the expensive CommVault Simpana 10 and it has support for SVMs via pass through. Why would I buy something that can do no better than what I have? I was working with Symantec sales and had a sales engineer and they said NetBackup behaved the same way. When I tested BE2012 I could not browse the volume to back up a set of folders or snapshots. I tested BE2012 a few months ago and was considering testing BE2014 until I saw your post. I have been hunting for a better solution since 2013. I have a work around that allows specifying a folder for back up and I can perform single file restore to a manually typed location but browsing and cross platform support is gone.
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I could backup NDMP by browsing and restore single file or folder to NDMP with browsing or Windows cross platform. Tape backup on CDOT is very limited.īefore buying NetApp storage we tested against 8.1.3 7-mode DataOnTap and it worked perfectly with CA ArcServe Backup R16. There is a bug in 8.2 related to NDMP browsing that was “fixed” in 8.2.1 according to the bug list. I have 8.2 DataOnTap Clustered with Storage Virtual Machines (SVM).
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