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• Protected volumes must be formatted as an NTFS file system. DPM cannot protect volumes
formatted as FAT or FAT32.
To simplify recovery in the event of system partition failure, install DPM to a partition that is
separate from the system partition. Also, the volume must be at least 1 gigabyte (GB) for
DPM to protect it. DPM uses the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to create a snapshot
of the protected data, and VSS will create a snapshot only if the volume size is greater than
or equal to 1 GB.
• Before you install protection agents on the computers you are going to protect, you must
apply hotfix 940349. For more details, see Microsoft Knowledge Base article 940349,
" Availability of a Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) update rollup package for Windows
Server 2003 to resolve some VSS snapshot issues "
(http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=99034).
After installing Knowledge Base article 940349 and then restarting the DPM server and/or the
protected server, we recommend that you refresh the protection agents in DPM
Administration Console.
To refresh the agents, in the Management task area, click the Agents tab, select the
computer, and then in the Actions pane, click Refresh information. If you do not refresh the
protection agents, Error ID: 31008 might appear because DPM refreshes the protection
agents only every 30 minutes.
Protection for computers running SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 1 (SP1)
• You must start the SQL Server VSS Writer Service on computers running SQL Server 2005
SP1 before you can start protecting SQL Server data.
The SQL Server VSS Writer Service is turned on by default on computers running SQL
Server 2005. To start the SQL Server VSS Writer Service, in the Services console, right-
click SQL Server VSS writer, and then click Start.
Protection for computers running Exchange Server 2007
• Before you can protect Exchange Server 2007 data in a Clustered Continuous Replication
(CCR) configuration, you must install hotfix 940006. For more details, see Knowledge Base
article 940006, " Description of Update Rollup 4 for Exchange 2007 "
(http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=99291).
• The eseutil.exe and ese.dll versions that are installed on the most recent edition of Exchange
Server must be the same versions that are installed on the DPM server. In addition, you must
update eseutil.exe and ese.dll on the DPM server if they are updated on a computer running
Exchange Server after applying an upgrade or an update. For more information about
updating eseutil.exe and ese.dll, see "Eseutil.exe and Ese.dll" in " Protected Computer
Requirements " (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=100473).
Protection for computers running Virtual Server
• To protect virtual machines for online backups, we recommend that you install version
13.715
of Virtual Machine Additions (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=84271).