One funny and one irritating thing

Funny one:

In DPM documentation you may notice something like that:

Important

DPM 2010 is not supported on the Turkish language version of Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2.

I didn’t find any information regarding the cause but still it’s quite interesting.

Irritating one:

Configuring tape backup for Protection Group may be really (and I mean REALLY) irritating when on “Specify long-term goals” window, you will set up first schedule and then customize backup. Reason is quite simple, after confirming things in ‘customize’ menu, schedule settings are erased and back to default Sunday 12:00 AM.

To put it simple… when you:

1. Set schedule for Monday 20:00
2. Go to customize options and i.e. configure retention range for 1 week and apply it.
3. You get: Tape backup with 1 week retention and scheduled for Sunday!

When you invert the order:

1. Go to customize options and i.e. configure retention range for 1 week and apply it.
2. Set schedule for Monday 20:00
3. You get: Tape backup with 1 week retention and scheduled for Monday.

It took me a while to find why my Monday’s backup is not really working J.