DPM: Recovery Point Volume threshold exceeded (3169)

Microsoft.Windows.SystemCenterDPM.RecoveryPointVolumeThresholdExceeded (UnitMonitor)

Recovery Point Volume threshold exceeded

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

This alert is generated in Data Protection Manager (DPM) when the disk space used for the specified shadow copies on the DPM server has exceeded the recommended threshold of 90 percent. To avoid compromising data protection, you should allocate more disk space for shadow copies in the storage pool. If you do not allocate more disk space, synchronization jobs may fail due to insufficient disk space.

Causes

See the Alert Details pane for more information on the cause of this alert.

Some possible causes for this alert include:

The size of the protected data on the source volume may have increased significantly since the protection group was created.
The data change rate for the data source may be high, causing the shadow copies to use more space than expected.

Resolutions

On the DPM server, allocate more disk space in the storage pool for the replica. For more information, see “How to Modify Disk Allocation” in DPM Help (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=66728).

If no additional disk space is available in the storage pool, you may need to add a physical disk drive to the DPM server and then add the disk to the storage pool. For more information, see “Adding Disks to the Storage Pool” in the DPM 2007 Deployment Guide (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=66734).

External

For information about how disk space is allocated in DPM and how to calculate disk space requirements for protected data, see the “Planning a Deployment” chapter in the DPM 2007 Planning Guide (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=66733).

Element properties:

Target

Microsoft.Windows.SystemCenterDPM.DataSource

Parent Monitor

System.Health.ConfigurationState

Category

EventCollection

Enabled

True

Alert Generate

True

Alert Severity

Warning

Alert Priority

Normal

Alert Auto Resolve

True

Monitor Type

Microsoft.Windows.2SingleEventLog2StateMonitorType

Remotable

True

Accessibility

Internal

Alert Message

DPM: Recovery Point Volume threshold exceeded (3169)

{0}

RunAs

Default

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