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I've been having some issues with backing up my primary configuration manager site. Configuration Manager 2012 was giving me the following critical error message:

 

Site backup task failure alert at site: P01

 

I am using a network (UNC) path which is related to why it's not working. To troubleshoot this issue, take a look at *:\Microsoft Configuration Manager\Logs\smsbkup.log.

 

First of all the network share need to have Everyone Full Control configured. The NTFS right needs to match the running account for the SMS_SITE_BACKUP and SMS_SITE_VSS_WRITER services.

 

You can configure a scheduled task for the backup at Administration - Site Configuration - Sites - Site Maintenance - Backup Site Server.

 

If you manually want to start a backup, run the service called SMS_SITE_BACKUP.

 

So to conclude. After changing the Log On account for the above mentioned services everything is working fine.

 

Cheers!

 

There is no way to force marking a tape as free in the Data Protection Manager Console, though there is a Management Shell command called ForceFree-Tape.ps1 included.

 

The syntax is:

 

ForceFree-Tape.ps1 -DPMServerName <Name of server> -LibraryName <Name of library> -TapeLocation <slot numbers>

 

It all seems logic until you get to the slot number part. A simple "8" is not sufficient for the script to succeed. It needs to be "slot-8" for some reason. E.g:

 

ForceFree-Tape.ps1 -dpmservername dpm01 -libraryname "Hewlett Packard MSL G3 Series library  (x64 based)" -tapelocationlist slot-8

 

After running the script you will get the following output:

 

 

If it's a standalone drive, use the following command instead. You can find the tape name on the Management - Libraries view selection the drive and looking at the Details pane beneath.

 

ForceFree-Tape.ps1 -dpmservername dpm01 -libraryname "Hewlett Packard LTO Ultrium-2 drive" -tapelocationlist drive-\\.\Tape2147483646

 

Removing recovery point created at 04/13/2013 20:00:26 for tape in Drive-\\.\Tape2147483646. The operation will remove the following recovery point(s) because they have dep endencies on each other:

 

Datasource 'KDAcctDB' on computer app01.sweden.se:

 

Saturday, April 13, 2013 8:00:26 PM Removing recovery point created at 04/13/2013 20:00:09 for tape in Drive-\\.\Tape2147483646. The operation will remove the following recovery point(s) because they have dependencies on each other:

 

Datasource 'AIS20080623121636' on computer app01.sweden.se: Saturday, April 13, 2013 8:00:09 PM Removing recovery point created at 04/13/2013 18:04:07 for tape in Drive-\\.\Tape2147483646. The operation will remove the following recovery point(s) because they have dependencies on each other:

 

Datasource '\\?\Volume{7b056282-96ea-11e2-93ec-00155d61d80d}\' on computer fs01.sweden.se: Saturday, April 13, 2013 6:04:07 PM Setting tape in Drive-\\.\Tape2147483646 as free.

 

Software Update Point in System Center Configuration Manager was giving me below error message:

 

Synchronization failure alert for software update point: <FQDN> (<SITENAME>)

 

To investigate this I used CMTrace on wsyncmgr.log.

 

*:\Microsoft Configuration Manager\tools\cmtrace.exe

 

*:\Microsoft Configuration Manager\Logs\wsyncmgr.log

 

In this log I found error messages, e.g:

 

 

After changing the Access Control List on *:\Sources\WSUS\WSUSContent with Full Control for Everyone, the error disappeared. So I checked the WSUSContent directory on another server. The entries I was missing was:

 

Users, Read

SYSTEM, Full Control

Ever since I set these permissions on the folder the alert never came back.

/Johannes