Prepare to back up a generic data source

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Important

This version of Data Protection Manager (DPM) has reached the end of support. We recommend you to upgrade to DPM 2022.

System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) provides the Generic Data Source (GDS) infrastructure so that you can protect any Microsoft workload as long as it has a VSS writer.

Here's what you can do:

  • Complete backup using Express full backup

  • Recovery to the original location

  • Back up referential data sources

  • Back up data source with shared disk clusters

  • Back up in multiple domains

  • Back up to tape

Registering a new data source

You'll need to run the Modify-RegisteredWriters command to add, remove, or modify the VSS writer ID for a data source to the list that's registered with DPM.

Syntax

Modify-RegisteredWriters.ps1 [[-DpmServerName] <String>] [-List] [<CommonParameters>]

Modify-RegisteredWriters.ps1 [[-DpmServerName] <String>] [-Remove] [-Writers] <String> [<CommonParameters>]

Modify-RegisteredWriters.ps1 [[-DpmServerName] <String>] [-Add] [-Writers] <String> [<CommonParameters>]

Parameter Type Description
DPMServerNAme String Specifies the DPM server against which this command should run. By default, the command is run against the local DPM server.
List SwitchParameter Indicates that the command should display the list of registered writer IDs.
Add SwitchParameter Indicates that the command should add the list of writer IDs to the list of the writer IDs that's registered with DPM.
Remove SwitchParameter Indicates that the given list of writer IDs must be removed from the list of the writer IDs that's registered with DPM.
Writers String Comma-separated list of writer IDs.

Example 1

The Modify-RegisteredWriters command displays the list of writers that are currently registered with the local DPM server.

Modify-RegisteredWriters -List

Example 2

The Modify-RegisteredWriters command adds the two new writer IDs to the list of registered writers on the local DPM server.

Modify-RegisteredWriters -Add -Writers "46eef637-28ca-4223-8bb6-2e87bd945179,e1cdedc6-d9d2-4fc3-8af6-5d0d0fe3e8af"

Example 3

The Modify-RegisteredWriters command removes the specified writer ID from the list of registered writers on DPM server dpm1.contoso.com.

Modify-RegisteredWriters -DpmServerName dpm1.contoso.com -Remove -Writers 46eef637-28ca-4223-8bb6-2e87bd945179