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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

Installing the agent automatically and manually on a client computer


With Microsoft System Center DPM, there are two approaches to installing the DPM agent on client computers that you want to start protecting. The first approach is to push the agent installation automatically through the DPM Administrator Console, and the second approach is to install the agent manually. If you need to install the DPM agent on a number of client computers, then you can automate this process through scripting.

Getting ready

The Microsoft System Center DPM agent can be installed on computers that are in the same domain as the DPM server, in a workgroup, and in an untrusted domain. If you deploy the DPM agent manually, then you will need to attach the agent to the DPM server post deployment. For the DPM agent to be able to communicate with the DPM server through a firewall, specific firewall exceptions are required.

 

How to do it...

The following steps will guide you through installing the DPM agent automatically...