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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 a failed server using bare-metal recovery


In this recipe, we'll show you how to recover a failed server usingbare-metal recovery (BMR).

Note

For more information on how to enable Windows bare-metal protection with DPM, please Chapter 5, Protecting Microsoft Workloads with DPM.

Getting ready

Before you recover a failed server using BMR, you need to make sure the agent status is reporting OK in the Management workspace, as well as the protection status in the Protection workspace.

How to do it...

  1. Open your DPM Administrator Console, and click on the Recovery workspace. You can seea calendar related to the selectionin the left-hand navigator, where you can drill downunder the domain, select the appropriate server,thenAll DPM Protected Data,and thenSystem Protection. The calendar then lights up in bold. On those days when you've got restore points that youcan recover from, you can see the recovery date and time.Over in the detail panel, toward the bottom-right corner, you can seeBare Metal...