I was going to do a test restore today and noticed that my latest recovery point was in august. So for some reason DPM 2012 SP1 isn't doing nightly backups of my VMs as it is configured to do. I don't even see them under Today's job. Any ideas? 

Hi

any errors reported? Can you try manually running one of the jobs to see if it fails?

I am seeing exactly the same thing. HyperV cluster 2012 (5 nodes) with DPM 2012 SP1 + CU3 (which was upgraded from DPM 2012 RTM). Multiple VMs selected in a protection group, some back up as expected, some don't back up at all. There are absolutely no logs (no errors (and thus no failure email), no success, no attempt, nothing).

I am testing on how to resolve this, however this is pretty concerning. I've set up recovery point reports to get emailed to me so I can keep an eye on this. Even then though, having to manually perform backups that didn't execute for no reason without any log whatsoever is pretty bad.

EDIT: forgot to mention - creating a recovery point for the VM that didn't have backups created automatically works as expected (Highlight Vm from recovery group > Right click > Create recovery point)

• Edited by Maxim M 21 hours 39 minutes ago

I am seeing exactly the same thing. HyperV cluster 2012 (5 nodes) with DPM 2012 SP1 + CU3 (which was upgraded from DPM 2012 RTM). Multiple VMs selected in a protection group, some back up as expected, some don't back up at all. There are absolutely no logs (no errors (and thus no failure email), no success, no attempt, nothing).

I am testing on how to resolve this, however this is pretty concerning. I've set up recovery point reports to get emailed to me so I can keep an eye on this. Even then though, having to manually perform backups that didn't execute for no reason without any log whatsoever is pretty bad.

EDIT: forgot to mention - creating a recovery point for the VM that didn't have backups created automatically works as expected (Highlight Vm from recovery group > Right click > Create recovery point)

• Edited by Maxim M Monday, December 09, 2013 2:36 PM

I am seeing exactly the same thing. HyperV cluster 2012 (5 nodes) with DPM 2012 SP1 + CU3 (which was upgraded from DPM 2012 RTM). Multiple VMs selected in a protection group, some back up as expected, some don't back up at all. There are absolutely no logs (no errors (and thus no failure email), no success, no attempt, nothing).

I am testing on how to resolve this, however this is pretty concerning. I've set up recovery point reports to get emailed to me so I can keep an eye on this. Even then though, having to manually perform backups that didn't execute for no reason without any log whatsoever is pretty bad.

EDIT: forgot to mention - creating a recovery point for the VM that didn't have backups created automatically works as expected (Highlight Vm from recovery group > Right click > Create recovery point)

• Edited by Maxim M Monday, December 09, 2013 2:36 PM