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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

Recovering a Hyper-V virtual hard disk


This recipe covers the recovery process of a virtual hard disk (VHDX) file.

Getting ready

System Center Data Protection Manager can help you to recover a single virtual hard disk (VHDX) file in the the scenario where a virtual machine has lost its volume or the data has been corrupted.

How to do it...

  1. Open the DPM Administrator Console, and go to the Recovery task view. Browse or Search for the data you want to recover. 
  2. In the Recovery points section, select the data. Available recovery points are indicated in bold on the calendar in the recovery points section. Select the bold date for the recovery point you want to recover.
  1. In the Recoverable Item pane, double-click on the recoverable item you want to recover, and then right-click the VHD or VHDX file and choose Recover…; this will trigger the Recovery Wizard:

 

  1. In the Review Recovery Section step, review the selection, and then click Next >. Note that the selected recovery element is a VHD and not the...