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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

Preventing unexpected data loss


DPM servers may be managed by a team of IT administrators. Assigning the wrong volumes for backup storage can cause critical data loss. Starting with DPM 2016 Update Rollup 4 and later, you can disable volumes or mount points from being used as backup storage. In this recipe, we will show you how to exclude volume and mount points from being available for DPM.

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, or a later version
  • Microsoft Azure Backup Server version 3 or later

How to do it...

The volume exclusion feature can only be configured using PowerShell. In this example, we will exclude the H:\ drive and D:\MountPoints\MountPoint01 from being available to the DPM as disk storage:

 

Open a Windows PowerShell session on your DPM server and follow these steps:

  1. Run the Set-DPMGlobalProperty cmdlet followed by the...