Moving the DPM Server to a Different Computer

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Applies To: System Center Data Protection Manager 2007

This topic describes the steps that you have to take to move a DPM server to a different computer. If you have a DPM server that is running on server (for example, Server1) and you decide to move it to server (for example, Server2), then you must perform the following procedure:

On Server1, follow these steps:

  1. Back up the DPM database.

  2. Note the updates installed on DPM using the Add or Remove Programs item in Control Panel.

On Server2, follow these steps

  1. Remove Server1 from the network. Ensure that the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of Server1 and Server2 is same.

  2. Install DPM.

  3. Install all the DPM updates that were previously installed on Server1.

  4. Restore the DPM database.

Note

The FQDN and version of DPM on both the servers Server1 and Server2 must be same.

To back up the DPM database

  1. At the command prompt, run DPMBackup.exe -db, located at <drive letter>:\Program Files\Microsoft Data Protection Manager\DPM\bin.

  2. In the console tree of the backup program, browse to \Program Files\Microsoft Data Protection Manager\DPM\Volumes\ShadowCopy\Database Backups. The file name of the DPM database backup is DPMDB.bak.

  3. Select the media to which you want to back up the database.

  4. Start the backup.

To install DPM

For information about how to install DPM, see Installing DPM 2007 (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=91851).

To restore the DPM database

  1. At the command prompt, type DpmSync –restoredb –dbloc <DPMDB location>, and then press ENTER.

    Note

    The default location of DPMDB is C:\Program Files\Microsoft DPM\DPM\DPMDB. When you use an existing instance of SQL Server for DPM, the default location of DPMDB is the path on the instance of SQL Server where the SQL databases are located.

  2. At the command prompt, type DpmSync -sync.

  3. After the new installation is complete and the database is restored, in DPM Administrator Console, in the Monitoring task area, check for protection jobs that failed. Manually restart any failed jobs.

  4. After you restart the failed jobs, you must perform a consistency check for all data sources. For more information about how to perform a manual consistency check, see "How to synchronize a replica" in DPM 2007 Help.