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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 data from an external DPM server


You can recover the data you've backed up to Azure Backup (Recovery Services Vault) from another DPM or MABS server in case of disaster or data corruption. The external DPM server feature can be used for this type of scenario. This recipe will show you how to recover your data from Azure Backup using an external DPM server.

For more information on how to enable Azure Backup, please see Chapter 10, Integrating DPM with Azure Backup.

Getting ready

Before you get started, you need to make sure you have another DPM/MABS server connected to Microsoft Azure, with the latest Azure Backup agent, and registered to the same Recovery Services Vault from which you want to restore your data. You can download the latest Azure Backup agent from the following location: https://go.microsoft.com/fwLink/?LinkID=288905.

Note

Please note that you cannot add an external DPM for recovery as long as you don't have another DPM/MABS server registered to the same Recovery Services...