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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

Preparing to back up Azure Stack with DPM


Microsoft Azure Stack is not a traditional monolithic application, and so the topic of data protection with Microsoft Azure Stack is divided into two distinct and separate sets of tasks: infrastructure backup and tenant backup. The approach to each task is quite different. For instance, the infrastructure backup can't initially be backed up by an SCDPM server, so a component of Microsoft Azure Stack, the Backup Resource Provider, carries out this task. Subsequently, the backup repository created by the Backup Resource Provider requires data protection and this is where SCDPM comes in to support the infrastructure backup task.

The Microsoft Azure Stack infrastructure backup, Backup Resource Provider, requires a Server Message Block (SMB) 3.x file share to operate. This SMB 3.x file share must be external to the Microsoft Azure Stack appliance, so here you could leverage an existing SMB 3.x storage solution, such as a Windows file server or a third...