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Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 R2 Cookbook

By : Robert Heldblom, Robert Hedblom
Book Image

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 R2 Cookbook

By: Robert Heldblom, Robert Hedblom

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 R2 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Finding and understanding Company Protection Policy


This recipe will cover the information you need to get started to design your client protection.

Getting ready

The client protection in DPM is really all about one thing: Company Protection Policy, also known as (CPP). This policy contains all the necessary information that DPM actually needs to start to provide protection that will, in the end, build an optimal restore scenario for the end user data.

How to do it...

The company protection policy contains five core components:

  • Folder inclusion and exclusion

  • Allowing users to specify protection group members

  • File type exclusion

  • Synchronization frequency

  • Recovery point creation

The folder inclusion and exclusion defines the folders that should be included in the company protection policy or the folders that should be excluded. The DPM administrator can choose between standard inclusion or exclusion options.

Providing a good Group Policy design with the combination of building an optimal restore scenario...