DPM 2010 ‘Replica Inconsistent’ showing against System State and Bare Metal Recovery

This error normally occurs due to one of the following two possible causes:

Not enough disk space is available on the protected machine to store a backup of the system state files
The Windows Server Backup feature is not installed on the protected machine

The latter is an easy one to solve; simply install the required feature onto the protected machine from Server Manager. Installation of this feature doesn’t normally require a reboot.

If the protected machine doesn’t have enough disk space to store a backup of the system state files (you’ll need 10-12Gb free on the system drive by default to store these files), you’ll need to create some space on the system drive, or add another disk to the machine and modify the PSDataSourceConfig.xml file to allow DPM to use the new location. The PSDataSourceConfig.xml file is normally located at %SystemDrive%\Program Files\Microsoft Data Protection Manager\DPM\DataSources. Modify the <FilesToProtect> section of the xml file to point to the new drive added. Note that you may need to remove protection for the machine from the DPM 2010 console and then re-enable protection to get DPM to read the new location for backup files from the PSDataSourceConfig.xml file.

Andy
8/9/2010 8:22:11 AM

The windows server backup did the trick.

Andy
12/14/2010 1:25:59 PM

I enable windows backup on the server and that did the trick also. Thanks!

Andy
3/9/2011 10:54:04 PM

IKt was the Windwos backup service. Sheesh, 20 posts on the subject and there it finally was right at the top. Thanks Andy!

Andy
4/28/2011 10:23:43 PM

Great one Andy,

Like Bryan, I tried over 25 blogs with no luck, until I stumbled upon yours

simply adding Windows Backup feature on all the protected servers fixed it.

thanks for sharing it

Cheers