Data Protection Manager 2007: Replica is inconsistent
Filed Under (Data Protection Manager) by Just An Admin on 24-12-2008
Replica is inconsistent
This must be one of the most common errors in Data Protection Manager 2007, since i have seen this almost every day in my Administrator Console.
After the upgrade to Service Pack 1 for Data Protection Manager 2007 and fixing a minor ‘error ID 207’ problem, some of my protected server reported this error. No consistenty check of recreated recovery point could fix it. Within a second after selecting eihter tasks, this error reappeared.
It seems more DPM 2007 users have encountered this problem and there is yet a simple fix for it. Run the following command on the protected computer which is giving you the error and replace [SERVERNAME] for the name of your DPM server:
setdpmserver -dpmservername [SERVERNAME]
After running this command, try the consistency check again.
Additional info: Before running this command from the command prompt, you may need to navigate to the install location of your DPM agent, most likely:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Data Protection Manager\DPM\bin
I ran this command and got an error that said
setdpmserver failedwith error code = 80070020: the process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. Any ideas? I cannot seem to get rid of the recplica inconsistent error.
@Daryl,
This problem has been experienced before, it seems. This most likely has to do with the installer not being able to open the ports in the Firewall of and Windows 2008 Server. If you experience this problem using a Windows 2008 Server, open the ports in the firewall manually (http://refinenetworks.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/protocols-and-ports-used-by-dpm/) or disable the firewall just to see if this is the problem…
If this works I’ll owe you big time. I’ve been looking at this problem on and off for weeks!
It looks like this has resolved my consistency issues, thanks very much. My other issues are to do with SQL Server databases and the recovery model used. I changed from FULL to SIMPLE and as a result needed to take them out of the protection group and then add them back in again.