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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

Upgrading the DPM agents


This recipe covers how you can upgrade DPM agents from the DPM console and also provides information about other scenarios.

Getting ready

Microsoft keeps releasing updates that are critical to apply, since they contain new enhancements that will provide you with optimization of the DPM software. They also enable new restore capability features for your workload.

How to do it...

After you have upgraded DPM 2012 R2 to the latest DPM release, you must upgrade all of the DPM agents that are attached to the DPM server before protection can continue. This is something you need to do manually:

  1. Open the DPM console, select Management and, on the left-hand side of the console, click on Agents. In the display pane, you will see DPM agents reporting Update Available.
  2. Right-click the agents that you want to update and choose Update from the drop-down list.

Note

Starting with DPM 2016 or later, once the agent has been updated, no reboot is required. DPM will continue to protect your workloads. However, we have seen some servers reboot automatically, even if the option to automatically reboot is not checked, so make sure to upgrade the agent during a maintenance window.

 

 

How it works...

The DPM agent coordinator is the function within the DPM agent architecture that provides you with the ability to upgrade your DPM agents via the DPM console.

Note

Some Update Rollups require a restart if the file filter drivers, or any DLL in the change-tracking process, has been updated. It is recommended that you read the release notes for the update before applying it to the production environment.

There's more...

You can also apply the updates manually via Microsoft Update, local Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), or System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM).