See also – Dell PowerVault DP600 User Manual

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To disable a protection agent

1. In DPM Administrator Console, click Management on the navigation bar.

2. On the Agents tab, in the display pane, select the name of the computer with the

protection agent you want to disable.

3. In the Actions pane, click Disable protection agent.

4. In the dialog box, click OK to confirm that you want to proceed.

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Managing Clustered File Servers

Using Windows Maintenance Tools on File Servers and
Workstations

In general, you can continue maintenance on file servers and workstations protected by DPM

using your regular maintenance schedule and the maintenance tools provided in the operating

system. Those tools and any impact on data protection are listed in the following table.

Windows Maintenance Tools and Protected Computers

Windows Tool

Considerations

Disk Cleanup: Use to remove temporary files,

Internet cache files, and unnecessary program

files.

Running Disk Cleanup should have no adverse

affect on performance or data protection.

Disk Defragmenter: Use to analyze volumes

for the amount of fragmentation and to

defragment volumes.

Before adding a volume to a protection group,

check the volume for fragmentation, and if

necessary, defragment the volume by using

Disk Defragmenter. When protection is applied

to extremely fragmented volumes, boot times

on the protected computer might be slowed

down and protection jobs might fail.

It is recommended that you run Disk Cleanup

before running Disk Defragmenter.

Chkdsk.exe: Use to check the file system and

Before you run chkdsk /f on a protected