In this chapter, we will cover how System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager can protect the SQL Server workloads within your datacenter.
We will cover the following topics:
Understanding SQL Server's protection considerations
Configuring your SQL Server 2012 for DPM protection
Understanding the SQL Server management tasks from a DPM perspective
Protecting SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn
Protecting an availability group using SQL Server's AlwaysOn configuration
Protecting your SQL Server databases
Enabling parallel backups
Configuring the auto-protection feature
Configuring online protection
Restoring a SQL Server database to its original location
Restoring a SQL Server database to an alternative location
Restoring a SQL Server database and renaming the database
Restoring a SQL Server database to a network location
Restoring a SQL Server database from Azure
Restoring a SQL Server database from tape
Restoring a SQL databases using the Latest feature