We’ve gathered together the top Microsoft Support solutions to the most common issues experienced using Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 (updated quarterly).
1. Solutions related to File server backup and restore:
- Troubleshooting Data Protection Issues
- System Protection Issues
- Troubleshooting Data Recovery Issues
- System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager Survival Guide
- DPM Server becomes unresponsive / hangs when protecting Storage Server SIS enabled volume
- Support Tip: Mounted volumes within mounted volumes cannot be backed up in DPM
- Optimizations in protecting SQL databases with high churn by DPM
2. Solutions related to Routing System Center DPM\DPM Console: Crashes, Hangs, and Performance\DPM Console crashes:
- Troubleshooting Performance Issues
- Troubleshooting General DPM Issues
- The Data Protection Manager database grows and the console crashes after installing Update Rollup 3
- System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager Survival Guide
- Troubleshooting System Center 2012 - Data Protection Manager
3. Solutions related to Routing System Center DPM\Hyper-V and Virtual Server Protection\Hyper-V cluster that uses CSV:
- SC 2012 SP1 – DPM: Leveraging DPM ScaleOut feature to protect VMs deployed on a big cluster
- Support Tip: Hyper-V hosts fail and log Event ID 5120 when being backed up
- KB: Creating protection for Hyper-V VMs on Windows Server 2012 fails with Internal error code 0x809909E2
- Hyper-V Protection Issues
- Protecting Hyper-V Virtual Machines
- Troubleshooting Data Protection Issues
- System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager Survival Guide
4. Solutions related to Routing System Center DPM\Exchange Protection\Exchange Server backup:
- Restoring Exchange 2010 Mailbox Databases to RDB using System Center Data Protection Manager
- Exchange 2010 DAG Passive Node Visibility and the EnableVSSWriter Regkey in Data Protection Manager
- Secondary Protection and Exchange 2010 DAG Node Protection in System Center Data Protection Manager
- Troubleshooting Data Protection Issues
- System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager Survival Guide
5. Solutions related to Routing System Center DPM\Setup, Installation, and Secondary DPM Server Protection (DR)\Other:
- KB: System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager upgrade fails with ID: 4323 and "A member could not be added"
- KB: Upgrade to DPM 2012 fails if you use a manually installed instance of SQL Server 2008 R2
- Troubleshooting DPM Installation Issues
- Troubleshooting Data Recovery Issues
- System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager Survival Guide
- How to enable debug logging in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager SP1
- DPM Certificate Troubleshooting–Part 1: General Troubleshooting