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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

Plan for off-site end user backup


In the previous recipe, we looked at the prerequisites that are required to set up Windows client protection and set up an initial protection group so that we could start an initial synchronization. Now, let's look a bit deeper into what is required when protecting clients off-site.

Getting ready

Microsoft System Center DPM can protect Windows clients when they are connected either via a VPN or DirectAccess connection. For Windows clients that are recurringly disconnected, it is recommended that the endpoint device has a minimum network bandwidth of 1 megabit per second (Mbps). For Windows clients that are permanently connected to the network, it is recommended that the endpoint device has a minimum network bandwidth of 256 kilobits per second (Kbps).

 

 

In DPM, when a backup or replica occurs, a complete copy of the protected data is transmitted from the DPM agent running on the protected machine to the DPM server. Creating a replica is one of the more resource...