Book Image

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

Working with filters


Filters in Microsoft System Center DPM allow you to query the result of jobs executed or scheduled in a number of varying ways. Filters are simply SQL queries that present the results of the fetched data to the DPM Admin Console. You can also go ahead and define your own custom filters, and these results appear under the custom filters option in the Action pane of the Admin Console.

Getting ready

You can filter jobs by using the following criteria by default:

  • All jobs
  • All jobs in progress
  • Failed jobs for yesterday and today
  • Today's jobs

 

 

How to do it...

The following steps will guide you through how to use the default filters and build your own custom filters:

  1. From the Start screen, select Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager. The DPM Administrator Console loads and the Monitoring task area is highlighted.
  2. Select the Monitoring task area. Select one of the default filters in the Action pane to retrieve the associated data:
  1. To create a custom filter, click the Create...