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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

Performing image-level backups of client computers with DPM


Performing image-level backups of client computers with Microsoft System Center DPM is not a supported scenario. However, the ability to carry out an image-level backup of a client is a scenario that certain industry-vertical customers (such as those in manufacturing) ask for from time to time.

Getting ready

Microsoft System Center DPM and earlier versions of DPM are not natively able to perform image-level backups of any supported client operating systems that appear in the Microsoft support matrix. To protect a client's system state or perform an image-level backup, you will need to use the image backup feature in Windows 10 to first create an image-level backup. This backup option will include a full installation of the operating system itself, components of the operating system (such as settings, desktop, and Windows applications), and any personal data.

You can use the image backup feature in Windows 10 to carry out an image-level...