Go the Management Window – Agents tab.

Select the Primary DPM server. Under the Details windows you will see the option Proteced computers enabled for Protection – Modify. Click on Modify.

In the View Details of Protected Computers Window select the server you want to backup, then click on Enable Secondary Protection. Enter the domain administrator credentials when prompted.

The Protection enabled status now change to Yes, click on Close. You are now ready to start backing up the resource.

I have written step by step instructions on how to add new disk drives to the DPM storage pool. I like to call it instructions for dummies :).

Open the DPM 2007 Administrator Console

Step 1
Go to the Management tab and select Disks.

Step 2
Click on Add to begin adding the new disk. This should launch the Add Disks to Storage Pool window.

Step 3
Select the disk to add to the storage pool from the Available disks window. The selected disk should move the the Selected disks windows on the right. Click on OK to continue. If prompted with a pop up message “You have selected disks that are basic. DPM will convert the selected disks to dynamic and any existing volumes on these disks will be converted to simple volumes. Do you want to continue?” Select Yes.

Note: You must initialize the new disk first, then convert it from Basic to GBT before attempting to add it to the storage pool. If you do not do this then you will receive an error during step 3. For instructions on how to convert basic to GBT partition, then search for the word GBT in my blog. I have written up how to for dummies instructions sometime ago.

Installing Protection Agents Manually
You can install protection agents manually. To manually install a protection agent, use the command line options in the following procedure.

You can also install a protection agent independently using Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS). To create an SMS package for the DPM protection agent, you must provide the following to the SMS administrator:

A share to the DpmAgentInstaller.exe and DpmAgentInstaller_AMD64.exe packages.

A list of servers on which you are installing the protection agents.

The name of the DPM server.

To silently install the protection agent, run DpmAgentInstaller.exe /q .

To install a protection agent manually
On the computer on which you want to install the protection agent, we recommend that you map a network drive to the DPM server. For example, from the command prompt type net use Z: \\DPM1\c$.

On the protected computer, from the command prompt, change the directory (CD) to z:\Program Files\Microsoft DPM\DPM\Agents\RA\2.0.5820.0\i386 (if you have a 64-bit computer, use AM64), and then type DpmAgentInstaller.exe . For example: DPMAgentInstaller.exe DPM1.Fully.qualified.domain

OR

On a 64-bit computer, type DPMAgentInstaller_amd64.exe .

Note
If you use the DPM server name in the command line, DPM installs the protection agent and configures the security permissions for the DPM server.

You can perform a non-interactive installation by specifying a /q parameter after the DpmAgentInstaller.exe command. For example, type DpmAgentInstaller.exe /q .

Restart the protected server.

Note
The following step is not required if you specified the DPM server in Step 1.

To complete the protection agent configuration for the appropriate DPM server and firewall settings, from the command prompt, type :\Program Files\Microsoft Data Protection Manager\bin\ SetDpmServer.exe – dpmServerName . For example:
SetDpmServer.exe –dpmServerName DPM01
Where DPM01 is the actual DPM server name.

On the DPM server, from the DPM Management Shell prompt, type Attach-ProductionServer.ps1 .

The password parameter is not required and we recommend that you do not provide it. DPM will prompt you for a password, which will not appear on the screen. However, you can provide the password if you want to use the script to install a protection agent on a large number of servers.

Note
If you are attaching the protected computer on a different domain, you must specify the fully qualified domain name. For example, Computer1.Domain1.corp.microsoft.com, where Computer1 is the name of the protected computer, and Domain1.corp.microsoft.com is the domain to which you are attaching the computer.

The required configurations to protect the production computer are created. DPM Administrator Console will now display the production computer.