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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

Backup Storage Migration


One of the most common requests to Microsoft in earlier DPM versions was the ability to move data backups from one volume to another volume. Starting with DPM 2016 Update Rollup 4 and later, you can move data backups from one volume to another; this is useful in scenarios where you want to upgrade your storage from a low-performant volume to a high-performant volume, or you want to move data sources to other volumes when an existing volume is getting full and cannot be extended.

Note

Please note that this feature is only supported for Modern Backup Storage volumes. DPM Classic Storage to Modern Backup Storage is not supported, and DPM Classic Storage to DPM Classic Storage is not supported either. DPM Classic Storage is what we had in DPM 2012 R2 and earlier versions.

Getting ready

Make sure your DPM server is in a healthy state and is running any of the following versions:

  • DPM 2016 with minimum Update Rollup 4, DPM 2019 or a later version
  • DPM 1801, DPM 1807, DPM 1901...