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yassine2

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March 24th, 2009 09:00

Networker NMM and Microsoft DPM 2007

Dear all,
one of our customers has windows servers with MOSS2007 Exchange2007 SQL2005 and Active directory... We want to use NMM to backup DPM
Reading the docs was not very helpful for me.
Has anyone got experience with this?

I have the following points :
1)do we need to install networker clients on servers managed by DPM for backup? do we need licenses for those servers.

2) It is said that staging and clone are not supported. Is it still the case with NW7.5

Many thanks

SFBing

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March 27th, 2009 11:00

Hello yassine,

To recover back to the DPM Server (i.e. to get the DPM 'savesets' back into DPM) then you need only install on, and have a license for, the DPM Server.

In order to recover individual files directly back to the original client system that DPM is protecting, you would also need an installation and a license on that client. (Note that this is raw files -- you cannot recover things like Exchange databases back to the original client.)

Thanks,
_Scott

ble1

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March 24th, 2009 11:00

Elaine, we are not talking about DPA (ex EBA), but DPM. This is MS backup tool which can't backup itself so NMM is backing up its database and repository. (sounds funny)

ble1

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March 24th, 2009 11:00

I didn't do it, but my understanding is that you need NW client on DPN server only since that's where DPN data which is backed up should be, right? AFAIK, staging and cloning is still not possible.

yassine2

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March 25th, 2009 01:00

I read in release notes for NW7.5 in page 15 that cloning and staging issues have been resolved in this release. But in Admin guide for NMM2.1 it is still mentionned that staging and cloning are not supported.

You said that we do not need to install networker on clients backed up by DPM, but in the recovery of NMM it is asked to install it.

yassine2

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March 25th, 2009 02:00

of course we will need to restore data directly to clients not DPM

yassine2

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March 25th, 2009 02:00

Now we are at the solution dimensionning stage of the solution.
so, we have to know how many client licenses to buy that is why I asked wether we need licenses for clients backed up by DPM.
thanks

ble1

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March 25th, 2009 02:00

Indeed, those two are mentioned as fixed/addressed in 7.5. Not sure why NMM docs were not updated then. The best way to see this is to test it.

As for restore, docs say: "Recovery of DPM Server can include recovery of the DPM configuration database, or recovery of missing replicas in their entirety to their original locations. NMM also supports granular file recoveries of replica data to the DPM-protected client or to the DMP server." So, if your restore is such that data being restored is outside DPM server (like replica) to the client then obviously you will need client software for that too. It all comes down to what you backup and where do you restore it.

ble1

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March 27th, 2009 07:00

Regarding what?

yassine2

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March 27th, 2009 07:00

Is there any help?

ivanwan

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May 27th, 2009 02:00

do anyone has any information on how Networker backup DPM and also restore? seems i am having the same question as yassine.

ble1

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May 27th, 2009 03:00

yassine marked Scott's answer as correct one - I guess you should check that one.

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