Description of the latest hotfix rollup package for System Center Data Protection Manager 2007: March 29, 2010

This article describes the issues in Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 that are fixed in the Data Protection Manager 2007 hotfix rollup package version 2.0.8864.0 that has a publish date of March 31, 2010.

Note To determine the currently installed version, click the Information icon that is located on the upper-right side of the Main menu bar in the DPM 2007 Administrator Console on the DPM Server.

This hotfix rollup resolves the following issues:

1. You may experience a crash in the Data Protection Manager engine when you run a tape job from a protected server.
2. When you use the Data Protection Manager Management Console to browse Microsoft SharePoint Server recovery points or when you back up a SharePoint point to tape from disk, you receive the following error message:
   PrmDatasetDatasourceMismatchForArchiveOfSC (=30132)
3. A SharePoint recovery point in a secondary Data Protection Manager has a different set of datasets than the corresponding recovery point in the primary Data Protection Manager.
4. Alerts for standby continuous replication (SCR) servers are not displayed in Microsoft Operations Manager.
5. Default disk allocations may grow unexpectedly for system state protection.
6. When you restore a SharePoint site that contains a WEB host header to an alternate location, the site is restored to the default site.
7. Shared Services Provider (SSP) database protection is blocked when one or more SSP names begin with the same SSP name.
8. The server is slow, and time-out errors may occur, when you run a backup-to-tape job.
9. Data Protection Manager-owned tapes are marked as unrecognized.
10. Data Protection Manager cannot retrieve SharePoint catalog information. Therefore, item-level recovery is not possible for some content databases. Additionally, you may receive the following error code:
    3103
11. You receive the following protection agent error code when bulk tape jobs cannot be completed successfully:
    0x80990C27
12. You may experience a Data Protection Manager engine crash during backup to tape.
13. The Data Protection Manager Management Console does not display recovery points before the year 2010 in some scenarios.

This hotfix rollup also includes all previously released hotfix rollups for Data Protection Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1):

Hotfix rollup information

Download information

The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:

System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 hotfix package (32-bit x86-based and 64-bit x64-based versions)

Download the System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 hotfix package now. (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=775e1a23-825f-450a-9d71-6b8c951ea748)

Note This hotfix rollup package applies to all supported language versions of System Center Data Protection Manager 2007.

For more information about how to download Microsoft support files, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: Microsoft scanned this file for viruses. Microsoft used the most current virus-detection software that was available on the date that the file was posted. The file is stored on security-enhanced servers that help prevent any unauthorized changes to the file.

Known issues

After you install this hotfix rollup, backups may not be completed successfully. Additionally, you may receive the following error message: This error message indicates that a shadow copy association is corrupted on the DPM server and could lead to loss of data. This hotfix rollup makes sure that the backup succeeds only when the association is correct. When the shadow copy association is correct, this condition does not occur for future backups.

To correct the shadow copy association, use one of the following methods.

Method 1

Migrate the data to different volumes by using the MigrateDatasourceDataFromDPM command-line script. For more information, visit the following Microsoft TechNet Web site:Method 2

Redo the initial replica on a different DPM server to re-protect the protected server.

Method 3

Enable the AllowBackupOnSCRemap subkey in the registry. This method enables backups to continue even if the shadow copy association is incorrect. We do not recommend that you enable this registry subkey. However, if you must have backups to run, you can do this as a temporary measure.

Important This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
2. Locate and then click to select the following registry subkey:
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft Data Protection Manager\Configuration\TaskExecutionOptions
3. Right-click AllowBackupOnSCRemap, and then click Modify.
4. In the Value data box, type 1, and then click OK.
5. On the File menu, click Exit to exit Registry Editor.

Prerequisites

The following list contains prerequisites for the hotfix rollup:

• You must have System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 installed.
• You must have critical update KB962975 installed.

For more information about System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Service Pack 1, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: For more information about critical update KB962975, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Installation instructions

This Data Protection Manager 2007 rollup package consists of three separate updates. To install each update, follow these steps:

1. Install the rollup package on the server that is running Data Protection Manager 2007 Service Pack 1. To do this, run the DataProtectionManager2007-KB979970.exe file on the server.
   
   Note You must restart the Data Protection Manager server after you install this rollup package.
2. Update the remote Microsoft SQL Server installation that is hosting the DPMDB database. To do this, run the SqlPrep-KB979970.msp file on the computer that is running SQL Server.
   
   Note This step is not required if you are running a SQL Server DPMDB instance on the Data Protection Manager 2007 server.
3. In the DPM Administrator Console, update the protection agents. To do this, use one of the following methods:
   
   Method 1: Update the protection agents from the DPM Administrator Console
   1. Open the DPM Administrator Console.
   2. Click the Management tab, and then click the Agents tab.
   3. Select a computer from the Protected Computer list, and then click Update on the Action pane.
   4. Click Yes, and then click Update Agents.
   5. When you receive the Enter Credentials and Reboot option dialog box, enter your credentials, select the Manually restart the selected servers later option, and then click OK.
      
      Note You do not have to restart the computer to update the agent. This is why the Manually restart the selected servers later option was selected.
   Method 2: Update the protection agents on the protected computers
   1. Obtain the update protection agent package from the "Data Protection Manager installation location\DPM\Agents\RA\2.0.8836.0" directory on the Data Protection Manager 2007 server.
      • For x86-based updates: i386\1033\DPMAgentInstaller_KB979970.exe
      • For x64-based updates: amd64\1033\DPMAgentInstaller_KB979970_AMD64.exe
      Note The DPMAgentInstaller.exe package applies to all languages.
   2. Run the appropriate DPMAgentInstaller.exe package on each protected computer.
   3. Open the DPM Administrator Console on the Data Protection Manager 2007 server.
   4. Click the Management tab, and then click the Agents tab.
   5. Select the protected computers, and then verify that the agent version is listed as 2.0.8864.0.
4. Run the DPMManagementShell2007-KB979970.msp file.
   
   Note This step is not required if you are running the Data Protection Manager Management Shell on the Data Protection Manager 2007 server.

Restart information

If the DPM Management Shell is open when you install the hotfix rollup package, you must restart the computer. Otherwise, a restart is not required.