Changing Resource Groups on Clustered File Servers

Applies To: System Center Data Protection Manager 2010

A cluster node can have any number of resource groups. Moving a DPM protected data source to a resource group, between resource groups, or out of a resource group can cause protection job failures. To successfully make any of those changes to resource group membership, perform the following steps:

  1. Stop existing protection of the data source. The data source could belong to a protection group as a single data source on a protected server or as a data source as a member of a resource group.

  2. Begin protection of the data source according to its new status, either as a single data source on a protected server or as a data source as a member of a resource group. This will allocate a new replica for the data source.

Changing the name of a resource group will affect the protection of all data sources in the resource group. To change the name of a resource group, perform the following steps:

  1. Stop protection of the resource group.

  2. Change the name of the resource group.

  3. Begin protection of the resource group under its new name.

See Also

Concepts

Changing File Server Cluster Members
Performing File Server and Workstation Management Tasks

Other Resources

Performing General Maintenance on File Servers and Workstations