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Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2010

By : Steve Buchanan (MVP)
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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

Bare Metal Backup and Recovery


Imaging a server creates an exact copy of a live machine for a complete backup, this is like taking a picture of that server. This allows you to restore the server back to its current state in the event of total failure. Server imaging provides very comprehensive data protection. In many IT departments today imaging of servers is a common practice because of its reliability and ease of restores. In recent years Bare Metal Backup and Recovery has become a very popular added feature of imaging. Microsoft has its own imaging tools and with DPM has added a solid BMR solution. We are going to discuss BMR in more detail and show you how this is done in DPM.

What is Bare Metal Backup and Recovery?

Bare Metal Recovery is needed in the event of a server disaster. BMR is similar to imaging servers. It can restore the entire system including the operating system, any applications and all the data. BMR typically only protects the operating system drive by default. This means...