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Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2010

By : Steve Buchanan (MVP)
Book Image

Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2010

By: Steve Buchanan (MVP)

Overview of this book

<p>Microsoft Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2010 is a backup and recovery solution that provides continuous data protection of the Windows environment and file servers to seamlessly integrated disk, tape, and cloud storage.</p> <p>This practical, step-by-step tutorial 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. The book focuses on Microsoft best practices as well as the author's own real-world experience with Data Protection Manager.</p> <p>The book starts by providing an overview of DPM and the relevant planning that is required for your backup needs, before moving on to installing DPM. Then it dives deep into topics such as DPM Administrator console and Task Areas, configuring DPM to function, configuring DPM backup on servers, backing up critical applications, recovery options, and DPM offsite backup and recovery, amongst others.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2010
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Integrity of backups and testing restore


It is extremely important to check your backups and perform test restores. You do not want to find out that your backups are no good when it is crunch time and someone is depending on you to restore some data. Things can happen such as your media goes bad. Tapes can deteriorate and hard drives die and you want to be prepared if this happens. It is recommended that you verify your backups by running verification after backing up. DPM only supports verification for tape backups and for protection Exchange. Microsoft may add this feature in the future. The best way to test a backup is by doing a restore of it. You can restore over production but this is not recommended. It is recommended that you restore to a different location or maybe a duplicate virtual copy of a production server. You do not want to restore to your production servers and find out the data is bad. It is a good idea to check the backup on an ongoing basis. Make performing test restores...