Replica Creation Problem

I have a DPM server protecting two others offsite.  One of the machines is 
successfully protected and the other has a DPM agent installed (successfully 
installed with the DPM console) but I am unable to create a replica of the 
SQL databases.  No data is transferred.

I have checked the firewall settings on both machines, and they are allowing 
DPM traffic.  The machine is accessible via the VPN.

Has anyone experienced anything similar (and might be able to offer 
assistance)?

Replica creation has never succeeded.  There is no data to restore in the 
Recovery container.  However, the protection group has been successfully 
created, and DPM appears to attempt to protect the data.

I get errors on the Replica: "Replica is inconsistent" and each time I
run a 
synchronization job with consistency check the job fails with the following 
error:

Affected area:	SERVERNAME\sqlDatabaseName
Occurred since:	4/15/2008 12:17:03 PM
Description:	The replica of SQL Server 2005 database 
SERVERNAME\sqlDatabaseName on servername is inconsistent with the protected 
data source. All protection activities for data source will fail until the 
replica is synchronized with consistency check. You can recover data from 
existing recovery points, but new recovery points cannot be created until the 
replica is consistent (ID 3106)
	The protection agent on servername was temporarily unable to respond 
because it was in an unexpected state. (ID 60 Details: Internal error code: 
0x809909B0)

Recommended action:	Retry the operation.

Thank you!



"Madhan S[MSFT]" wrote:

> What does replication creation fail with? Were you able to create
protection 
> group successfully? Is this the problem with Replica Creation job? If so, 
> please post the details of the error.
> 
> -- 
> Thanks
> Madhan S
> 
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers
no rights
> "Jordan Hamad" <JordanHamad@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote in message 
> news:9592E1AC-C457-4E18-8905-FD5C04998D85@microsoft.com...
> >I have a DPM server protecting two others offsite.  One of the machines
is
> > successfully protected and the other has a DPM agent installed 
> > (successfully
> > installed with the DPM console) but I am unable to create a replica of
the
> > SQL databases.  No data is transferred.
> >
> > I have checked the firewall settings on both machines, and they are 
> > allowing
> > DPM traffic.  The machine is accessible via the VPN.
> >
> > Has anyone experienced anything similar (and might be able to offer
> > assistance)?
> >
> > Thanks in advance. 
> 
> 

I was able to successfully create the protection group on the server.  DPM 
appears to attempt to replicate the data, but fails with the error that I 
have included below.  Additionally there is no data to restore, which tells 
me that the initial replication failed:

Affected area:	SERVERNAME\database
Occurred since:	4/15/2008 12:17:03 PM
Description:	The replica of SQL Server 2005 database SERVERNAME\database on 
servername is inconsistent with the protected data source. All protection 
activities for data source will fail until the replica is synchronized with 
consistency check. You can recover data from existing recovery points, but 
new recovery points cannot be created until the replica is consistent (ID 
3106)
	The protection agent on servername was temporarily unable to respond 
because it was in an unexpected state. (ID 60 Details: Internal error code: 
0x809909B0)

Recommended action:	Retry the operation.

"Madhan S[MSFT]" wrote:

> What does replication creation fail with? Were you able to create
protection 
> group successfully? Is this the problem with Replica Creation job? If so, 
> please post the details of the error.
> 
> -- 
> Thanks
> Madhan S
> 
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers
no rights
> "Jordan Hamad" <JordanHamad@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote in message 
> news:9592E1AC-C457-4E18-8905-FD5C04998D85@microsoft.com...
> >I have a DPM server protecting two others offsite.  One of the machines
is
> > successfully protected and the other has a DPM agent installed 
> > (successfully
> > installed with the DPM console) but I am unable to create a replica of
the
> > SQL databases.  No data is transferred.
> >
> > I have checked the firewall settings on both machines, and they are 
> > allowing
> > DPM traffic.  The machine is accessible via the VPN.
> >
> > Has anyone experienced anything similar (and might be able to offer
> > assistance)?
> >
> > Thanks in advance. 
> 
> 

What does replication creation fail with? Were you able to create protection 
group successfully? Is this the problem with Replica Creation job? If so, 
please post the details of the error.

-- 
Thanks
Madhan S

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights
"Jordan Hamad" <JordanHamad@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message 
news:9592E1AC-C457-4E18-8905-FD5C04998D85@microsoft.com...
>I have a DPM server protecting two others offsite.  One of the machines is
> successfully protected and the other has a DPM agent installed 
> (successfully
> installed with the DPM console) but I am unable to create a replica of the
> SQL databases.  No data is transferred.
>
> I have checked the firewall settings on both machines, and they are 
> allowing
> DPM traffic.  The machine is accessible via the VPN.
>
> Has anyone experienced anything similar (and might be able to offer
> assistance)?
>
> Thanks in advance.