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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

Recovering file server data with PowerShell


In this recipe, we'll recover a file server data using DPM.You can recover items,as you can perform most administrative tasks in DPM,either using the DPM administrator console,or using PowerShell cmdlets. In this recipe, we will use DPM PowerShell cmdlets to restore file server data.

For more information on how to enable file server protection with DPM, please check Chapter 5, Protecting Microsoft Workloads with DPM.

 

Getting ready

Before you start the recovery, you should always verify that the targeted data source is accessible, and that the DPM agent is reporting OK in the DPM console.

How to do it...

Open the Windows PowerShell session on your DPM server and observe the following steps:

  1. Open a connection to a DPM server by typing the following command:
 Connect-DPMServer -DPMServerName $env:COMPUTERNAME
  1. Query all protection groups and store the results in a variable called $PGroup: $PGroup = Get-DPMProtectionGroup. You can see their name under theName...