When you have set up a protection group that defines the backup settings for a protected data source that maps to your restore plans, you may find the need of optimizing the protection group configuration.

There are five important configuration methods to optimize a protection group:

The network throttling, manual replica creation, and altering the Express-Full schedule methods are covered in corresponding recipes in this chapter.

If you modify a protection group or create a new one, you have the ability to optimize the protection group in two ways:

Open the Protection view of the DPM console, and simply click the protection group that...