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Data Protection Manager - Tape Protection お知らせ

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    User Voice Feedback Forum!! - Data Protection Manager
    Andy Nadarewistsch

    Have feedback or a suggestion to improve DPM? We have added DPM and Azure back-up on user voice feedback forum on Azure.  We had piloted this initially with Azure backup and were thrilled with all the feedback/ideas. We have now added SCDPM to it as well. Would love to hear your ideas and feedback.  If you see an idea you like, vote for it ! If you have a new ideas, post it (the search bar will tell you if there is a similar idea so do check that before you post a new idea).

    Go to - http://feedback.azure.com/forums/258995-azure-backup-and-scdpm

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    DPM 2012 Sp1 / R2 and Windows 2012 / R2 - Virtual Fibre Channel attached tape library support.
    Mike Jacquet

    Both Windows 2012 and Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V server have support for Virtual Fibre Channel (vFC) which allow you to attach physical fibre channel devices inside a Hyper-V guest running Windows 2012 / R2.

    System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 SP1 and later support running on Windows 2012.  
    System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 R2 is also supported running on Windows 2012 R2.

    When running DPM 2012.. in a Windows 2012 virtual machine, using the synthetic FC to connect to a tape drive / library is not supported because Windows 2012 does not currently offer support for it.

    However, DPM 2012 R2 +Sp3 or later running in Windows 2012 R2 virtual machine does support using the Vfc to connect to a fiber attached tape library

    This is documented in the following TechNet articles.

    Windows: Hyper-V Virtual Fibre Channel Overview

    DPM:  Verifying tape library compatibility  - see the section labeled: Run the compatibility tool for Hyper-V Fibre Channel

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    Creating and using certifcates for DPM tape backups.
    Mike Jacquet

    Below are quick links for using certificates encrypting DPM tape backups for all versions of DPM.

    How to Create Self-Signed Certificates for Successful Encryptions
    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff399364.aspx

    MakeCert.exe is available as part of the Windows SDK, which you can download from one of the below links:

    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=84091.
          http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa386968(v=vs.85).aspx

    You can install Windows SDK and select option “Tools” under “.Net Development” and   unchecked everything else for installing makecert.exe only.

    How to Import Certificates into DPMBackupStore
    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff399563.aspx


    People who have to have deal with Real Certificate Authorities can use the following information to assist with their requests:
     
    If you are dealing with an organization that uses a Windows CA, have them issue a certificate based on the "Web Server" Template.
    If you are dealing with an organization that uses another vendors CA, request that they issue you a certificate with the following:
     
    Key Usages = Digital Signature, Non-Repudiation, Key Encipherment, Data Encipherment
    Extended Key Usage = Server Authentication
     
    The above match the values of your self generated certificate.

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    Support for IBM System Storage TS2900 Tape Autoloader Added to DPM 2010 and beyond
    Mike Jacquet

    DPM 2010 now supports the IBM System Storage TS2900 / TS357X Tape Autoloader after installing this DPM 2010 or later Hotfix.

    2465832 Description of the hotfix rollup package for System Center Data Protection Manager 2010: March 2011
    http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-US;2465832

    However, you must also add this registry key before that fix will be implemented.

    Registry Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Data Protection Manager\Agent
DWORD: RSMCompatMode
Value: 29 (Decimal)


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    DPM compatible Tape libraries
    Mike Jacquet

    ·     Windows 2012 no longer has a tape library compatibility certification tests, so NO vendors tape libraries will show as being certified in the Windows catalog.  For that reason the guidance we're giving customers is if the library is listed on the Windows server catalog under the hardware / storage section and shows compatible with Windows 2008 X64 or Windows 2008 R2 x64, then it should work fine with all versions of DPM.  Any driver incompatibilities with Windows 2012 will need to be addressed by the vendor.  
    http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/

    Compatible tape libraries - Applies To: System Center 2012 - Data Protection Manager, System Center 2012 SP1 - Data Protection Manager
    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh916523.aspx


    Also leverage the DPM 2007 compatibility list, anything on this list should work on DPM2010 if they have Windows 2008 X64 drivers.

    System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Tested Hardware
    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/dpm/cc678583.aspx

    If you cannot find support for the library, you can download and run the DPMtapeLibraryCompatibilityChecker tool from the following page.

    Verifying tape library compatibility


    For Standalone drive.
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    Run the following command to list libraries attached to the system.

    DPMLibraryTest.exe /Certify /LL


    Run the following command, where \\.\tape######## is the symbolic name of the tape drive to test from the output of the /LL command.


    DPMLibraryTest.exe /CERTIFY /TL \\.\Tape2147483646 /SA


    For tape library
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    Run the following command to list the libraries attached to the system:

    DPMLibraryTest.exe /Certify /LL

    Run the following command, where \\.\Changer# is the symbolic name of the tape library to test from the output of the /LL command.

    DPMLibraryTest.exe /CERTIFY /TL \\.\Changer0 /ST 1 2 4 5

     

    Description of the tests.

    Test 1: Basic Configuration
    This test will scan your system for attached devices. It will identify the libraries and the stand-alone drives attached to your system and give you a summary of what it finds. For each device, you will see a Device Name, Serial Number, Vendor Name, Product Name, Firmware Revision and SCSI properties.
    At the end of this test, the user must verify whether all the information as seen by the tool. If the information is incorrect, check the following:
    • Check if all the devices are listed in Device Manager.
    • Ensure that the drivers for the devices are up-to-date.
    • If the drive mappings are incorrect, use the DPMDriveMapping.exe to correct the mappings. If you do not have DPM installed on the computer, copy the DPMLA.xml that DPMDriveMapping.exe creates to the folder to which you extracted the Tape Library Certification tool.

    Test 2: Mount/Dismount
    This test will pick a tape from the first available slot and perform a mount/dismount of that tape to/from a drive.

    Test3: Drive Cleaning
    A cleaner cartridge in needed for this test to run. Please read the pre-requisites section for this test. If you are using Firestreamer or a VTL where you cannot remove/change tapes, please use the /ST flag of the tool to skip the cleaner test.

    Test4: I/E Media
    This test will pick up the first available tape and move it to the I/E port and back. If your library/VTL does not have I/E ports the tool will automatically skip the test.

    Test5: I/O
    This test will pick up the first available writable tape and write a few buffers to it and try reading what is written. The purpose of this test is only to check for reading/writing ability.  Any specific/transient errors in any drive have to be inspected using the Advance Mode.
     Warning
    This test will overwrite information in the tape. Ensure that the first available tape does not have important data on it.

    Once complete, for any test failures, review the  LibraryTestTool-*-Curr.errlog files located in the directory you ran the tool from.

    Once the tool passes the tests, then DPM should be able to use the tape library for backups.

     


    NOTE1: DPM does not support Automated Cartridge System Library Software, ACSLS is the software that controls an Automated Cartridge System (ACS). There are no plans to support it.

    NOTE2:  DPM does not support tape libraries that have auto-clean feature enabled. If the library supports auto-clean but that feature cannot be disabled, wo do not recommend using that library with DPM.