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Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 R2 Cookbook

By : Robert Heldblom, Robert Hedblom
Book Image

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 R2 Cookbook

By: Robert Heldblom, Robert Hedblom

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 R2 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Protecting a single Exchange mailbox database


This recipe will cover how to protect a single Exchange 2013 mailbox on a standalone server.

Getting ready

Before you start creating the Protection Group that holds the actual configuration for the backup schedule, you need to fulfill the following prerequisites:

  • The Exchange server you would like to protect is a supported version of the DPM 2012 R2 protection

  • A DPM agent is installed on all the servers that hold the data sources that you would like to protect

  • The DPM agent reports OK in the DPM console's Management workspace

How to do it...

Go to Protection and click on New in the DPM console.

In the Create New Protection Group Wizard Welcome step, click on Next > to continue. In Select protection group type, choose Servers and click on Next > to continue. In the Select group members step, expand the Exchange and select Mailbox Database that you would like to protect with DPM. Click on Next > to continue.

In Select data protection method, you...