Description: DpmBackup backs up the DPM database, and creates shadow copies that can be used for backing up replicas. To ...

Description: 

        DpmBackup backs up the DPM database, and creates shadow copies that can be used for backing up replicas. 

        To back up the DPM database, run DpmBackup.exe -db locally on the computer running the instance of SQL Server used by DPM.

Usage: 

        DpmBackup.exe [-db [-instanceName ] [-dpmdbName ] [-targetLocation ]] [-replicas] [-certificates] 



        [-db]               Backs up the databases to the default backup location on the DPM server, %DPMInstallLocation%\Volumes\ShadowCopy\Database Backups\. 

        [-instanceName]     Specifies the instance of SQL Server that hosts DPM database. This parameter can be used only with -db. 

                            If you are backing up from a remote instance of SQL Server: 

                            -   From a named SQL instance, provide the instance name with -instanceName. 

                            -   From a default SQL instance, provide "(Local)" with -instanceName. 

                            If SQL Server is not on the same computer as DPM, the default backup location for DPM database will be %SystemDrive%\DPMBackup. 

        [-dpmdbname]        Specifies the DPM database name


        [-targetLocation]   Overrides the default backup location and points to a folder on the local computer. 

                            If -db is specified, the folder path should be an absolute path. 



        [-replicas]         Creates and mounts shadow copies of the DPM replica volumes to %DPMInstallLocation%\Volumes\ShadowCopy. 



        [-certificates]     Creates a file of the public certificates at %DPMInstallLocation%\DPMBackup\Certificates.