Microsoft Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2010 is a backup and recovery solution which provides continuous data protection for Windows application and file servers to seamlessly integrated disk, tape, and cloud.
This Data Protection Manager book is a practical, step-by-step tutorial that will show you how to effectively back up your business data using Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2010 and how to plan, deploy, install, configure, and troubleshoot Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2010 as a standalone product. This book will focus on Microsoft best practices as well as the author's own real world experience with Data Protection Manager.
Chapter 1, DPM Overview provides an overview of what DPM is, along with what it can do. It discusses the history of DPM, new features to 2010, understanding licensing, and more.
Chapter 2, Planning For Your Backup Needs shows you how to develop a backup solution strategy.
Chapter 3, Installation looks into installing DPM as well as upgrading DPM.
Chapter 4, Configuration covers the required and optional configurations needed to get DPM up and running.
Chapter 5, Administration looks into DPM administration including the console, reporting, maintenance, and performance.
Chapter 6, Configuring DPM to Back Up Servers and Clients will cover topics such as protecting Windows' servers, Windows' clients, protecting clients and servers in untrusted domains or in workgroups, and configuring end-user recovery.
Chapter 7, Backing Up Critical Applications looks into backing up critical Microsoft applications such as SharePoint, SQL, Hyper-V, Exchange, and ISA Server 2006.
Chapter 8, Recovery Options deals with restoring critical Microsoft applications such as SharePoint, SQL, Hyper-V, Exchange, and ISA Server 2006.
Chapter 9, Offsite, Cloud Backup and Recovery covers the options that are available for Data Protection Manager offsite as well as cloud backup, recovery options and also how to configure them.
Chapter 10, DPM PowerShell discusses the basics of using PowerShell with DPM along with some useful scripts.
Chapter 11, Troubleshooting and Resources covers the basics of DPM troubleshooting as well as the many resources out there for DPM.
To run the examples mentioned in this book you will need the following software:
Base build:
Windows Server 2008 R2
PowerShell
Microsoft DPM 2010
Other software used in the book:
Firestreamer
Exchange 2007/2010
SQL 2005/2008
ISA 2006
SharePoint 2010
Hyper-V
CloudRecovery by Iron Mountain
EVault for DPM by i365
If you are a Network Administrator, System Administrator, Backup Administrator, Storage Administrator, or an IT consultant who wants to effectively back up your business data using Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2010, then this book is for you.
A good understanding of operating systems, backup devices and network administration is required. However, knowledge of Data Protection Manager is not necessarily required.
In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.
Code words in text are shown as follows: " Disable the antivirus software real-time monitoring of csc.exe and dpmra.exe."
Any command-line input or output is written as follows:
Get-Command -PSSnapinMicrosoft.DataProtectionManager.PowerShell
New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "The Libraries tab is similar to the Disk tab."
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