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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

Introduction


We all have user data, both personal and corporate data, and when it comes to corporate data, some of this data can often reside outside of our company's managed infrastructure. IT administrators often tend to struggle to protect corporate data that employees store and consume on their endpoint devices, be it a tablet, a laptop, or an all-in-one device.

When a company successfully implements a strategy to backup endpoint devices, the service often comes with restrictions on what is actually supported, the type of files that can be backed up, or the amount of data that can be backed up. Companies spend a lot of effort in the design and management of backing up servers and other critical IT systems that are permanently located inside the corporate network, and rightly so, but the greatest challenge can often be backing up endpoint devices that are recurrently disconnected from the corporate network.

 

You can deploy DPM to back up endpoint devices, along with client operating systems...