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HP Data Protector Version Discontuance

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Today HP announced the discontuance of some HP Data Protector versions. Hereby a table of the last versions and it’s End-Of-Support dates.

Oct 31, 2009 End Of Product Support for HP Data Protector 5.5
Oct 31, 2011 End Of Self-Support for HP Data Protector 5.5
Dec 31, 2014 End Of Product Support for HP Data Protector 6.2x
Dec 31, 2016 End Of Self-Support for HP Data Protector 7.0 & 8.0x
Dec 31, 2014 End Of Product Support for HP Data Protector 6.2x
Dec 31, 2016 End Of Self-Support for HP Data Protector 7.0 & 8.0x
June 30, 2016 End Of Product Support for HP Data Protector 7.0 & 8.0x
June 30, 2017 End Of Product Support for HP Data Protector 8.1x
Dec 31, 2017 End of Committed Support for HP Data Protector 9.0x
June 30, 2018 End Of Self-Help Support for HP Data Protector 7.0 & 8.0x
June 30, 2019 End Of Self-Help Support for HP Data Protector 8.1x
Dec 31, 2019 End of Extended Support for HP Data Protector 9.0x
Dec 31, 2023 End of Self-Help Support with Rights to New Versions for HP Data Protector 9.0x

HP Data Protector: “Cannot connect to the SCM (Service Control Manager) on client: [5] Access Denied

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I encountered the following error notification when adding a new client (the first one) to a freshly installed HP Data Protector Cell: “[Critical] [110:1022] Cannot connect to the SCM (Service Control Manager) on client RRE-AD01.testlab.local: [5] Access Denied“.

At first I thought the Data Protector Cell Manager was unable to connect to the client. Eventually I disabled the firewall on both machines, ensured the network connectivity between both systems could be properly established and if the user credentials are correct. Everything matched as expected!

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Data Protector backup job throws “Fallback to legacy filesystem backup was not allowed”

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Wheb backing-up a Windows Client, sometimes the error “Fallback to legacy filesystem backup was not allowed” occurs. In most cases this is related to the CONFIGURATION object, but recently I noticed this also on the D-drive of a (SQL) server.

[Critical] From: VBDA@client “fqdnoftheclient [/D]” Time: 3/25/2014 8:16:09 AM
Fallback to legacy filesystem backup was not allowed. Aborting the backup.
[Critical] From: VBDA@client “fqdnoftheclient [/D]” Time: 3/25/2014 8:16:09 AM
[81:52] /D Not a valid mount point => aborting.

The software tries to start a backup by using the VSS integration and when this fails it fallbacks to the legacy method. If this is not defined in the backupjob properties, the backupjob will fail with the error mentioned above.

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Reset Data Protector Poor Medium

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In some cases, a tape can be falsely identified as a poor medium. This can happen if the backupjob was killed by a server reboot or a kill of the BSM.exe process. The poor state withholds Data Protector to use the tape.

The command below gives you the ability to reset the poor medium back to the original state.
omnimm -reset_poor_medium "Medium"

As a best practice note the media identifier (the label) down together with the date when the tape was “reinitialized”.
The purpose is to have a trace-back to see if a certain tape throws this error multiple times. In that situation it’s advised to remove the tape from the library.

Abort an unresponsive Data Protector job

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Sometimes aborting a job by using the Data Protector Manager Console does not succeed.
In those situation, follow this procedure:

  • Go to the Data Protector Manager console > Monitor > Session-Id and take a not of the start time.
    [Normal] From: BSM@CellManager.lab.local “FILE_DAILY” Time: 5/23/2013 4:15:05 AM
    Backup session 2013/05/23-13 started.
  • Open a PowerShell Window and execute the following command: “get-process b* | sort-object StartTime | format-table Name,Id,StartTime”
    Name Id StartTime
    —- — ———
    bsm 8532 18/05/2013 4:15:07
    bsm 8996 19/05/2013 5:15:05
    bsm 11672 23/05/2013 4:15:05
  • Execute the following command to kill the process: “stop-process 8532“.

Execute the command “omnistat” or “get-process b* | sort-object StartTime | format-table Name,Id,StartTime” to verify the operation. Restart the Data Protector Management console to clear the monitor in the GUI.

Data Protector DPWINBDL_00701 throws an 0x80004005 error

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Today I’ve upgraded a Data Protector environment (DP6.20) to the latest available version (DP7.01). Everything went OK until I needed to upgrade the installation server in DMZ. When installing the patch bundle (DPWINBDL_00701) I received the following error:

Unhandled Exception
Error Number: 0x80004005
Description: Unspecified error

Setup will now terminate

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Backup, Restore and/or Migrate HP Data Protector’s Internal Database

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There are two ways allowing a backup and restore of the Data Protector Internal Database. The procedures described below can also be used for performing migrations. The internal database is located in the DB40 folder within the installation directory.

The first way is relatively easy: create a backup job in the Data Protector Manager Console and select the Internal Database in the selection tree. The downside of this method is the lack of control where the database is stored (on a tape, but which one? on disk, in a bunch of files!) and how fast can it be restored in case of disaster. If you did not implement any fallback mechanisms, a catalog operation will be required! Needless to say it will take some time to complete.

Dumping the data to disk can come in very handy as a safety copy during maintenance operation such as upgrades, patchings, etc.

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Data Protector Error during agent rollout: Cannot connect to the SCM on client

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When encountering the following error during software deployment of Data Protector, the following fix can be used to resolve it.

[Critical] [110:1022] Cannot connect to the SCM (Service Control Manager) on client client.domain.local: [5] Access is denied.

C:\Program Files\OmniBack\bin>omniinetpasswd.exe -add \s_backup
Please enter password:**********
Please retype password:**********
User ‘\s_backup’ was successfully added.

C:\Program Files\OmniBack\bin>omniinetpasswd.exe -inst_srv_user \s_backup
User ‘\s_backup’ is configured to be used by Installation Server.