Maintaining DPM and File Servers

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Published : September 27, 2005

As part of your server maintenance plan, you are vigilant in applying operating system updates to the DPM server and file servers. Because some updates require that you restart the server, you coordinate the updates with the DPM protection schedule so that restarting the server does not interfere with scheduled jobs.

To ensure that you can recover from a disaster, you create and maintain Automated System Recovery (ASR) sets for each DPM and file server. This will be useful if you ever need to completely rebuild a server to add new hardware. In such an event, you can use the ASR set to restore the system state.

After several months of running DPM, you notice that space allocated for one of the protection group replicas is nearly full. Because all storage pool disk space has been allocated, you add additional disks to the DPM server, and then increase the allocation to the protection group.

Relevant Documentation:

You refer to the “Managing Servers” chapter in this guide (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=46367) for guidelines on server maintenance and instructions on making changes to DPM servers and file servers after protection is configured.