MS Data Protection Manager 2010 - has anyone got a quick setup guide?

[ronnoco]

Hi,

Has anyone got 2010 version up and running? It looks very powerfull but tricky to initially configure. There is a 270 page MS guide but it's driving me crazy!

I would just like to get up and running so our entire server is being backed up to LTO3 tape.

Can anyone shed any light or got any quick start guides they have found?

Thanks very much in advance.

Gary

[AngryTechnician]

Haven't found one for 2010 but here's the System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Getting Started Guide

The documentation for a lot of System Center products makes them look far more complicated and difficult than they actually are. They are very thorough but horribly inaccessible.

[meastaugh1]

I haven't had too much problem with the interface, but I am unable to get it to work with our SDLT2 autoloader. The backup always fails with IO errors, the best so far is 100GB. The same hardware config worked fine with backup exec 10 on win 2k3.

[deano]

Alan Richards has a post on installation. Check his blog out on Edutechnow.com

[zag]

I found out how to use it with youtube.

But soon realized its not a very good piece of software and went back to backupexec 2010 which I love

[ronnoco]

Well the instructions are all naff but i've got it up and running but pretty much everything it tries to back up fails suring the process with this error : -

Type: Tape backup
Status: Completed
Description: The job completed successfully with the following warning:
File copy failed due to an I/O error.
Source location: \\nwhserver8.nwhs.local\MTATempStore$\d2512569-82b5-45c7-b764-ea0ccec2e5e9.mbc
Destination location: C:\Program Files\Microsoft DPM\DPM\Temp\b9e8fb35-d1b0-4278-9df2-6617dd66da0a.mbc.
(The specified network name is no longer available.
)
Exception trace :
at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
at System.IO.File.InternalCopy(String sourceFileName, String destFileName, Boolean overwrite)
at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.ArmCommon .FileCopyBlock.DoFileCopy(Object msgObject) (ID 30123)
More information
End time: 24/09/2010 09:07:29
Start time: 24/09/2010 09:03:52
Time elapsed: 00:03:36
Data transferred: 13,901.00 MB
Cluster node -
Source details: D:\
Protection group: Daily Tape Backup
Library: IBM ULTRIUM-HH3 SCSI Sequential Device
Tape Label (Barcode): Daily Tape Backup-00000003 (None)

Anyone got an ideas?