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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

Recovering a Hyper-V virtual machine


This recipe covers how to recover a Hyper-V protected virtual machine.

Getting ready

When you want to recover a virtual machine, you open the System Center Data Protection Manager Console and go to the Recovery task view.

How to do it...

  1. Open the DPM Administrator Console, and go to the Recoveryview. Browse or search for the data you want to recover:
  1. In the results pane, select the desired date in the calendar and desired time in the drop-down list next to Recovery time.
  2. Under Recoverable items, right-click the server and choose Recover…; this will trigger the Recovery Wizard.
  3. In the Review Recovery Selection step, click Next >.
  1. In the Select Recovery Type step, specify the type of recovery you would like to perform. You can restore the virtual machine to the following:
    • Recover to the original location.
    • Recover as virtual machine to any host.
    • Copy to a network folder.
    • Copy to tape: If you are still using tapes, this option copies the volume that contains the selected...