How to mark a DPM tape containing active recovery points as free

Mar 8, 2012

When trying to mark a tape that contains active recovery points as free in Data Protection Manager you’ll receive an error like this: The selected tapes cannot be marked as free because they belong to protection groups. You need to stop protection of the...

How to configure item level recovery for Sharepoint 2010 with DPM 2010

Sep 20, 2011

I know that there are already a couple of articles covering this issue – but since I ran into trouble with exactly this configuration issue I realized that these articles do not cover everything. For example the problems you can run into. To keep the steps to be...

What to do with ‘suspect’ tapes in MS DPM 2007 and 2010?

Feb 14, 2011

Sometimes it happens that Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2007, 2010 and 2012 mark a tape as ‘suspect’. Normally this should happen when 2 different tapes have the same barcode… If you do know that there are not 2 identically labeled tapes in your...