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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

Backing up the Azure Stack tenant layer


You can use SCDPM to protect folders, files, and applications on Microsoft Azure Stack. To back up folders, files, and applications, install SCDPM as a virtual machine running on Microsoft Azure Stack. You can protect folders, files, and applications on any Microsoft Azure Stack virtual machine in the same virtual network.

Once you have installed SCDPM, you need to add additional Azure Stack storage to your SCDPM virtual machine to increase the local storage available for short-term backup data. If you operate your Microsoft Azure Stack in a connected scenario, then you can use public Azure for long-term retention.

If you are operating your Microsoft Azure Stack in a disconnected scenario, then you should consider leveraging an external disk array via iSCSI to support long-term retention.

Getting ready

SCDPM can perform both host- or guest-level backups. At the host level, an SCDPM protection agent is installed on the host server or cluster and protects...