Dpm 2010 drive mapping tool

Get a full list in What can DPM back up? Azure : For both short-term and long-term storage off-premises, DPM data stored in disk pools can be backed up to the Microsoft Azure cloud using the Azure Backup service. Tape : For long-term storage you can back up data to tape, which can then be stored offsite. When outages occur and source data is unavailable, you can use DPM to easily restore data to the original source or to an alternate location.

That way, if the original data is unavailable because of planned or unexpected issues, you can easily restore data from an alternate location. The following diagram provides an overview of DPM backup functionality.

Learn more in How does DPM work? Right click the drive and choose Online , then right-click it again and choose Initialize Disk. Do not create a volume, or DPM will not be able to allocate free space for backups. On the Actions pane click the Add link, to open the Add Disks window. Here, select one of the available disks, if you have more than one, then click Add and OK. If your disks are set as basic disks they will be converted to dynamic disks.

A message will be displayed informing you about the operation. Click Yes to convert the disk. The Quick Connect window will pop-up, showing the discovered drives on the specified target. Issue : You can't change the name of a protected computer and continue protection without disruption. In addition, you can't change the name of a protected computer and associate the existing replicas and recovery points with the computer when it is re-protected.

Workaround : We recommend that you don't change the name of a protected computer. If you must change the name of a protected computer, then first remove the data sources on the computer from protection. Then protect the data source on the computer after it has a new name. Issue : Ensure you update the time zone correctly if you change it for a protected resource.

Workaround : DPM automatically identifies the time zone of a protected computer during installation of the protection agent. If a protected computer is moved to a different time zone after protection is configured, ensure that you change the computer time in Control Panel. Then update the time zone in the DPM database. Mount point metadata - A protection group can contain data with mount points. In this case DPM protects the mounted volume that is the target of the mount point, but it doesn't protect the mount point metadata.

When you recover data containing mount points, you'll need to manually recreate your mount point hierarchy. System Volume Information folder. To protect system information for a computer you'll need to select the computer's system state as the protect group member.

You can also protect the following workloads in workgroups and untrusted domains using NTLM or certificate authentication:. Workaround : If you want to protect a workload that isn't in a trusted domain, see Prepare computers in workgroups and untrusted domains for exact details of what's supported and what authentication is required.

Only file data volumes, shares, folders can be backed up incrementally. Workaround : Use disk or a combination of disk and cloud storage Azure Backup for short-term backup of these workloads. Issue : DPM doesn't support multiple long-term backup goals if you only have a single tape drive. Only file-consistent snapshots are supported. Issue : In order to backup Hyper-V server clusters they must be located in the same domain as the DPM server or in a trusted or child domain.

You can back up servers and clusters in an untrusted domain or workload using NTLM or certificate authentication for a single server, or certificate authentication only for a cluster. Issue: DPM doesn't support the backup of virtual machine data on pass-through disks that present volumes to the virtual machine or that use a remote VHD. Workaround: We recommend that in this scenario you use host-level backup of the VHD files using DPM, and install and agent on the virtual machine to back up data that isn't visible on the host.

Issue : Support for backup up of primary and replica secondary virtual machines depends on the DPM version as summarized in this table. Be aware of these limitations:. DPM running as an Iaas virtual machine, in Azure, can protect some workloads running as Azure virtual machines.