In the scenario where you have a traditional DPM-DPM-DR implementation in your datacenter (known as Chaining or Cyclic protection) to provide additional offsite protection from a disaster recovery scenario, where you have a secondary DPM server in one location backing up a primary DPM server that is deployed in another location. This scenario is known as a classic approach compared to the modern Azure Backup solution, which is considered a light version of implementing a disaster recovery.
In this recipe, we will show you how to recover your data based on the DPM-DPM-DR scenario.
Before you get started, you need to have a second DPM server installed and connected to the primary DPM server. To do so, open DPM Administrator Console and go the Management workspace, click on Add under Production Servers, select the production server type as Windows Servers, then in Select agent deployment method, choose Attach agents and then select Computer...