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Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Cookbook

By : Charbel Nemnom, Patrick Lownds
Book Image

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Cookbook

By: Charbel Nemnom, Patrick Lownds

Overview of this book

System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) is a robust enterprise backup and recovery system that contributes to your BCDR strategy by facilitating the backup and recovery of enterprise data. With an increase in data recovery and protection problems faced in organizations, it has become important to keep data safe and recoverable. This book contains recipes that will help you upgrade to SCDPM and it covers the advanced features and functionality of SCDPM. This book starts by helping you install SCDPM and then moves on to post-installation and management tasks. You will come across a lot of useful recipes that will help you recover your VMware and Hyper-V VMs. It will also walk you through tips for monitoring SCDPM in different scenarios. Next, the book will also offer insights into protecting windows workloads followed by best practices on SCDPM. You will also learn to back up your Azure Stack Infrastructure using Azure Backup. You will also learn about recovering data from backup and implementing disaster recovery. Finally, the book will show you how to configure the protection groups to enable online protection and troubleshoot Microsoft Azure Backup Agent.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Creating online recovery points


This recipe will cover how to create an on-demand recovery point for backup and archive purposes, and how to automatically replicate it to Azure Recovery Services Vault.

Getting ready

In some scenarios such as updating and patching your server or your application, you want to manually create recovery points for your data. The prerequisites are that you have the online protection enabled for the data source(s) present in your protection group. Please refer to the previous section if you have not yet done so.

How to do it...

  1. To create a recovery point manually for your protected data, open your DPM Administrator Console, click on the Protection workspace, and then right-click on the data source and choose Create recovery point...:
  1. You will be prompted with the Create recovery point wizard. Select Online protection from the drop-down menu, and then click on the OK button:
  1. The DPM server will start creating a backup and then transfer it to Azure; you can follow its...