Restarting the DPM Server

Applies To: System Center Data Protection Manager 2007

If you need to restart the DPM server for any reason, check the Monitoring task area in DPM Administrator Console for jobs currently running, and then follow these guidelines:

  • If there are no jobs currently running or scheduled to run during the time required for the restart, restart the DPM server.

  • If a synchronization with consistency check job is running, restart the DPM server. Synchronization with consistency check will resume at the next scheduled time or you can retry the job manually.

  • If a replica creation job is running, postpone the restart until the job is completed. If the restart cannot be postponed, you must run synchronization with consistency check manually for the replica after you restart the DPM server.

  • If any synchronizations or express full backups are scheduled to run during the restart, either postpone the restart until the recovery points are created or re-run the synchronizations and create the recovery points manually after you restart the DPM server.

  • If any jobs that use the tape library are running, postpone the restart until the jobs are complete. If the restart cannot be postponed, the following job types will be canceled by the restart and must be re-run after the restart:

    • Back up to tape

    • Copy to tape

    • Recovery from tape

    • Tape verification

  • If you are erasing a tape, postpone the restart until the current job is complete. Cancel any pending tape erase jobs, restart the computer, and then reschedule the canceled tape erase jobs.

See Also

Concepts

Performing DPM Server Management Tasks