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If we had an earthquake (California here) and the the HQ where the DPM server lives was destroyed, I assume we could re-catalog the firestreamer volumes on a new dpm server to perform restores, correct? Like with physical tapes, you will need to import and recatalog the tapes with the new DPM serve...

It's a common scenario. That's what Firestreamer is designed for.

Yes, you can load media into Firestreamer from different physical storage devices at the same time. The spanning is done by DPM, and for the latter all Firestreamer tapes look the same regardless of the actual physical location.

Firestreamer only cares about partition tables for safety reasons, to minimize the risk of accidentally overwriting the user data that may be present on a disk. Once it decides to proceed, the existing partition table will be overwritten (deleted). The size of the partition doesn't matter. Firestrea...

Do not use drive letters in media names because an external HDD may have a different drive letter or no letter at all assigned to it in the security context of the Firestreamer Helper Service. Instead, use the volume names which are guaranteed to point to the same disk regardless of the current acco...

how do I monitor the available space on the tapes I created? Is there a way to tell if the tapes are almost used up and I need to create more tapes? It's the backup software that should display the tape usage data, not a tape drive. Normally, you don't need to monitor tapes with Microsoft DPM. It s...

The website is up and running. You can download the software from http://www.cristalink.com/downloads.aspx.

You need to check the Activity view of Firestreamer Snap-In for warning or error messages. See also W004: The medium is write protected.

According to Automation , before using the Firestreamer interface, you need to register it first with the following command line: For a 32-bit operating system: C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\RegAsm.exe /codebase "C:\Program Files\Cristalink\FsChanger\FirestreamerInterface.dll&qu...

Their "tape markers" most likely refer to proprietary formats used by various vendors for virtual tape. Firestreamer is from a vendor that Data Domain doesn't seem to support yet. We will try to contact them next week. I will post any updates here.