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Moving from DPM 2012R2 to DPM 2022 and new hardware
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Phil Ready
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I am currently running DPM 2012R2 on Server 2012r2 and I want to replace the hardware and move to latest 2022 DPM and Server 2022.
I have found advice on upgrading the OS, SQL and DPM, but not really anything that covers what I want to do. Plus I prefer to use a new clean install of OS and DPM, rather than upgrading DPM, SQL and OS.
Is the upgrade path the only way to get the DPM DB to come through? i.e. keep existing tapes useful? If so, what if I, in order to keep the existing DPM server intact (I take it offline), Disk2vhd it to a VM and run through the upgrade process on that to get the 'required DPMDB backup' to restore on a new Server?
I have seen comment that it needs to be a DPM upgrade (rather than new install) to get it to use the old DPMDB. If that is the case, how would one replace DPM hardware after a failure?
Regards
Phil
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XinGuo-MSFT 20,566 Reputation points2023-01-10T02:26:30.033+00:00 Hi,
DPM 2012 R2 -> DPM 2016/DPM 1801 -> DPM 2019 ->2022
You can install System Center - 2022 Data Protection Manager (DPM) on Windows Server 2019. You can upgrade to DPM 2022 from the following versions:
- DPM 2019
- Before you upgrade to or install DPM 2022, read the Installation prerequisites.
Here is a step-by-step article for upgrading DPM 2016 / 1801 / 1807 to DPM 2019: DPM Step-By-Step: upgrading to v2019
For upgrading, we need to be very careful and check both the Windows Server and SQL Server versions and which DPM supports.
There is a relevant thread you can reference:
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Phil Ready 6 Reputation points
2023-01-10T09:17:08.827+00:00 Thank you for that. I am wondering if I should just do a new install of DPM 2019 or DPM 2022 on the new hardware and forget about the existing backups, as we would get fully backed up soon enough anyway.
if I did do that and for some remote reason, I needed to restore Data from a DPM 2012r2 tape, would I be able to Inventory the old tape and copy Data off it with DPM 2019/2022?
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