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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

Enabling Modern Backup Storage (MBS)


Starting with Microsoft System Center 2016 DPM, Microsoft introduced a new feature called Modern Backup Storage (MBS). MBS is supported when DPM is installed on Windows Server 2016 or later. MBS helps to reduce the overall backup storage space, and Microsoft claims this is by a factor of around 50%. It also reduces the amount of I/O and the load placed on the backup server by using Resilient File System (ReFS) technology, which is available in Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019.

Note

To be able to configure Modern Backup Storage, you will need to have some primordial storage (unallocated storage capacity) available and connected to the DPM server that you are currently managing.

Getting ready

Microsoft System Center DPM uses, by default, the new backup option, Modern Backup Storage. Once a volume is added in the Admin Console, DPM will automatically format that volume with the ReFS. There are four steps to setting up MBS:

  1. Provide a new storage pool...