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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 data from Azure Backup


This recipe will provide you with the needed information to recover your production data from Microsoft Azure in case of disaster or data corruption.

For more information on how to enable Azure Backup, please see Chapter 10, Integrating DPM with Azure Backup.

Getting ready

Before you get started, you need to make sure that your DPM server is connected to Microsoft Azure and that it is in an online state. You can verify this by going to the Management workspace within the DPM console and browsing to the Online section:

How to do it...

  1. To restore your production data from Azure, open your DPM Administrator Console, and click on Recovery workspace.
  2. On the left-hand side, you will find your protected data sources in both an active and inactive state. Start by browsing the tree so that your data source will be visible; in my case, this is the D:\ drive of my file server.
  1. Next, you need to choose the right date, followed by choosing the right Recovery time from the drop...