Posts Tagged "Backup"

Data Protection Manager Database Backup fails with Invalid Command

Posted by Norman Bauer on Nov 10, 2015 in Data Protection Manager | 0 comments

From time to time you need to backup your DPM Database manually. I used to simply run the command DpmBackup.exe -db But when I tried now I only got the error Error: Invalid command -db. There are a lot of posts out there covering this issue, telling you should include the -instanceName Parameter in the command but this didn’t help me at all. After a while I added some more parameters and finally I found the following working for me: DpmBackup.exe -db -sqlServerName localhost -instanceName MSDPM2012 -dpmDbName...