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Both my DPM servers are RAID, can't remember which? definately not RAID5 though. DPM2 (user data) - was orgininaly Raid 5 with no BBU - result slow as hell. - i think its raid 10 now. DPM1 (all my other servers) - Raid 6 I also found multiple smaller protection groups is better than less large protection groups, as the disk seek time seems to improve. btw --> all performance issues i'm talking about were reading from Disk to tape. The initial D2D from the source server to the DPM was fine, and writing test data to a tape was fine. just writing a DPM backup to tape, we narrowed it down the RAID level / BBU and the protection group size. i also saw performance increases when doing restores after breaking the protection groups into multiple smaller ones. Data to tape is compressed. but on a 400gb/800gb (uncompressed/compressed) tape. I see DPM writing 450/490gb so don't expect much from it. can't remember what my total data size is? but I know DPM 1 uses one tape (400/800) and DPM 2 uses two (400/800) tapes/ DPM 1 is set to start at 5.00am this is done by 8-9am. DPM 2 starts at 1.am (we could start it at 5am now, i moved it earlier because of the performance problems we were having) and this definitely ready for the next tape by the time we get in. 7-8am

cool, i actualy like the fact that daily tape backups are full backups. i used to hate having to pull upto 4x tape sets to restore a folder. mine is setup to backup to tape everyday. daily 1.00am weekly --> monday 1.am monthly --> first monday 1.am the reason i do the keepies on the monday is we are more likely to be off on fridays due to insets etc. and we don't have an auto changer, we have two DPM servers one for the user data and one for everything else and the user data one needs tywo tapes nowadays. so although i've increased the timeout limit, it works come in the morning change the tape done by 9/10

@deano do you only backup monthly to tape? we do a full tape backup daily here, the disk 2 disk for convience only, especially give the SAN is 3 feet away from the DPM server. wouldn't be much use in a fire, hence the daily tapes to the fire safe

how are you planning on protecting the DPM server?another DPM server or tape?

wow last time I saw them, I was a student! i'll email the nm there and see if he has any i doubt it though,.

is it webdav?

thanks guys, the salamder thing may well be what I am after I will check it out!! shame their my documents web part doesn't do webdav, i would definitely buy it !!!

Hi Is there any docs for command reporter? cut a long story short, i want to pull the photo for a student so we can identify kids when changing password?

thats right, but its important to know each recovery point isn't a full backup like with a traditional software, it is just the changes, effectitevly and incremental backup

i think you've probably hit the nail on the head there synack

basically although its doing an incremental backup its not presenting you an incremental backup what its presenting is that volume or share or whatever at a point in time,

ok my explanation my not be 100% technically correct but: DPM creates a replica of the whole drive, then all it does is store the changes, the bits that have changed, so in essence its one full backup then incrementals ever after, but don't think of it in tradational terms because as far as restoring a file you go to the recovery section and select that day and it "presents" a full backup for that day.

i can never understand why people have a problem with this or suggest adding the driver from a workstation.??? I just added the driver via additional drivers straight on the server, job done! I'm not suggesting your not having problems, just 've never seen it myself?

tbh on our agreement I can d/l anything licensed or not, hyper-v enabled windows 2008 r2 is just called windows 2008 r2

have you installed the DFS role on the new serveR? if you haven;t install it, but select "Configure DFS later" (or whatever) during the add role wizard.

i started off using the builtin one, but ended using the custom / blank one, can't remember why?

if you look on the screenshot i have an "assign" button. that shows a form and the tech selects someone to assign it to via a people picker. i think i may remove the assign to me button aand make them use the assign button, i was just trying to make one less step for them as I think key to make sure every call gets logged is making the UI as simple and easy as possible. another options is to make the "assign to me" button to trigger the assign form, which is basically an aspx page but designed in sharepoint designer and make it fill in the form and submit it for the user, but i can't quite work out the best way of coding these types of forms. btw its not the builtin helpdesk list, its a generic list. the assigned to isn't already set, so were not changing it, we're setting it. my sharepoint books will be here soon which is a plus, i'm sure they will help a lot

or accessible through citrix a commericaly supported package with a proper support program

yes why does RM CC(whatever) require you to rebuild a workstation just to give it a different name?

ok developments fine, i'm fluent in c, c#, c++ and pascal. (and I love c#, compared to keeping track of pointers in c ) but I'm new to sharepoint. like literally yesterday!!!!!! what would I do?? implement a custom web part for the list view? or is there a simpler way.? the ribbon buttons are all removed using a small user control. I'm just trying to keep things as simple as possible, just because I don't want to dive in and write a whole web part and then find, I could have just ticked box a on the properties of the built in ones.!

thanks mate. I'm bored of sharepoint for the day anyways! i think the other problem is even if you accept that you got to have a confirmation dialog, it then redirects you to the actual page for the list (which I've gone to great lengths to hide) rather than the screen i posted, which has the web parts for the list.

i have some workflows that run when the list item is added to the list. that emails the user and does some other stuff. this workflow i runs when the tech clicks "assign to me". it sets the assigned field to {WorkflowContext:CurrentUser}, the workflow works. i just don't like the confirmation dialog.

This is logged in as a user http://www.oriel.w-sussex.sch.uk/temp/shot0.jpg This is logged in as a tech http://www.oriel.w-sussex.sch.uk/temp/shot1.jpg as you might be able to see if the user logs their own call, they can't assign it. so when i tech sees it in unassigned calls i want him (or her) to be able to select it and click assign to me. and not have to click confirm or go through several dialogs. I'm probably being a little fussy!

a list. its a helpdesk issue thingy. I didn't use the built in issue tracker i used a generic list and customized it.

why ???