and clusters for that matter
We recently saw a situation where a running VM could not be backed up by Data Protection Manager.
Here is why:
If at least one of the following conditions is true
The Hyper-V integration components for volume snapshot copy disabled for the VM
Dynamic disks configured inside of the VM
Non-NTFS based partitions inside the VM
Changed shadow storage assignments [...]
Install at least these two hotfixes on Hyper-V R2 servers:
KB975354 A Hyper-V rollup package dealing with parallel backups on same cluster shared volumes and VM’s hosted by different servers; Avoiding data truncation as a result of simultaneous backup of VM from host and from within virtual machine; properly restoring a VM with snapshots to another [...]
The release candidate of DPM2010 has just been released.
The download location is: http://connect.microsoft.com/site840/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=26452
The RC features support backup of machines within your intranet, which includes:
Workgroup machines
Machines in untrusted domains within your intranet
Please note that in this release, this feature has been built for backing up machines within environment and DPM2010 RC does [...]
Today the Data Protection Manager development team released the public beta of Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM2010), the third generation of Microsoft backup software. Actually backup is not the right word since it is data protection and guaranteed data recovery what makes DPM really stand out. It was really designed for backup to [...]
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