After sorting out an incredible mess Storage Spaces seems to be well known for when a physical drive takes a crap I am now in what almost feels like deeper doo doo!! Ive been using DPM 2012 R2 Version 4.2.1254.0 for quite some time. The Server with the Storage Spaces mess is a 2012 R2 OS as well. To add to the fun I had had dedupe turned on the Server being backed up. The DPM Server seems to have all the backups which would be 3 recovery points per day with 5 days retention and no tapes. I am able to do the Recovery both to "original location" and to Network Location. However, as YOU would know "original location" produces an error about missing volume: \\ ?\Volume{6460399a-ef18-4e02-90a5db1ebaf20962}\ . So I tried to restore it to the Network Location and use the "missing or crashed" volume that has been deleted and recreated/rebuilt in Storage Spaces. I get a conglomeration of folders which looks like the info needs to "restore or rehydrate" the deduped data but Ill be switched if I can get it to work. Ive attached a screenshot of the file structure DPM Recovery puts on the recreated volume V:\ on Destination Server if that might be of any help.

Storage Spaces, Deduplication, DPM: am I NUTS??!!! What happened to the old days .bkf??? Any help, articles or direction to head to would sure be appreciated..   The bottom line here is the recovery points all contain 465 +/-Gb in size which is correct, however, when DPM lays it back out either in the newly created Volume on the original Server OR another location it is conglomeration of files that appear to need hydration.