{"id":4136,"date":"2018-07-11T11:30:04","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T07:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/?p=4136"},"modified":"2018-07-11T11:30:04","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T07:30:04","slug":"aside-various-dpm-2016-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/windows\/aside-various-dpm-2016-links\/","title":{"rendered":"[Aside] Various DPM 2016 links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading up on (and trying to work with) DPM 2016 nowdays so here&#8217;s some links to myself before I close them from the browser:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/system-center\/dpm\/how-dpm-protects-data?view=sc-dpm-1801\">How does DPM work?<\/a> Very briefly, and skipping over the details:\n<ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s a protected server &#8211; the thing you want to protect.<\/li>\n<li>DPM creates a replica of the protected server. This replica is a copy of the data on this protected server.<\/li>\n<li>Replicas are stored in storage pools (a set of disks on the DPM server).<\/li>\n<li>Replicas sync with the source.\n<ul>\n<li>In the case of file data backups, an agent on each protected server tracks changes and transfers these to the replica.<\/li>\n<li>In the case of application backups (e.g. SQL, Exchange) an incremental backup is taken however the application requires such backups to be taken.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/system-center\/dpm\/how-dpm-protects-data?view=sc-dpm-1801#the-difference-between-file-data-and-application-data\">Quick shoutout to the difference between application and file data<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s also express full backups. A snapshot of the replica is taken and the replica is updated with the changed blocks.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>At regular intervals DPM creates a recovery point &#8211; this is a version of the data from which data can be recovered.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/dpm\/2017\/04\/14\/how-to-increase-dpm-2016-replica-when-using-modern-backup-storage-mbs\/\">How to increase DPM 2016 replica when using Modern Backup Storage (MBS)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/erictechadventures.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/03\/modify-replica-size-with-powershell\/\">Modifying replica size with PowerShell<\/a> &#8211; can&#8217;t do this via UI (as you could with previous version) so PowerShell is your friend<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/dpm\/2016\/10\/19\/introducing-dpm-2016-modern-backup-storage\/\">Introducing DPM 2016 Modern Backup Storage (MBS)<\/a> &#8211; some good videos. Short and useful.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/charbelnemnom.com\/2016\/10\/how-to-reduce-dpm-2016-storage-consumption-by-enabling-deduplication-on-modern-backup-storage\/\">How to reduce DPM 2016 storage consumption by enabling deduplication on Modern Backup Storage<\/a> &#8211; ReFS doesn&#8217;t support dedup; MBS makes use of ReFS; the blog post is about getting dedup enabled with MBS. Why do something that is unsupported, I don&#8217;t know. But it&#8217;s good info.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/dpm\/2017\/02\/07\/how-to-perform-a-manual-initial-replica-on-dpm-modern-backup-storage\/\">How to perform a manual initial replica on DPM Modern Backup Storage (MBS)<\/a> &#8211; good info, especially this little part which I&#8217;d like to quote here for quick reference:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>Copy the path and save it in a notepad. It\u2019ll look like the following. <em>E:\\ on DPM2016TP5-01.contoso.local C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft System Center 2016\\DPM\\DPM\\Volumes\\Replica\\31d8e7d7-8aff-4d54-9a45-a2425986e24c\\d6b82768-738a-4f4e-b878-bc34afe189ea\\Full\\E-Vol\\<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The first part of the copied string is the source. The second part, separated by a whitespace, is the destination. The destination contains the following information:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><i><\/i>DPM Install Folder<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 C:\\Program Files\\[..]\\DPM\\Volumes\\Replica\\<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong>Physical ReplicaID\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>31d8e7d7-8aff-4d54-9a45-a2425986e24c\\<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong>Datasource ID\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 d6b82768-738a-4f4e-b878-bc34afe189ea\\<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong>Path\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Full\\E-Vol\\<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading up on (and trying to work with) DPM 2016 nowdays so here&#8217;s some links to myself before I close them from the browser: How does DPM work? Very briefly, and skipping over the details: There&#8217;s a protected server &#8211; the thing you want to protect. DPM creates a replica of the protected server. 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