Back up and restore a generic data source
Updated: May 13, 2016
DPM provides the Generic Data Source (GDS) infrastructure so that you can protect any Microsoft workload as long as it has a VSS writer.
What’s supported
You can back up the following:
Complete backup using Express Full backup
Original location recovery
Referential data sources
Backend data source with shared disk cluster support
Multi-domain support
Tape support
What’s not supported
DPM does not support disaster recovery for generic data sources.
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.
Run the command
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. |
| 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 is registered with DPM. |
| Remove | SwitchParameter | Indicates that the given list of writer IDs must be removed from the list of the writer IDs that is registered with DPM. |
| Writers | String | Comma-separated list of writer ID. |
Examples
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