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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

Configuring and using role-based access


Typically, most enterprise customers have a dedicated team that, among other duties and responsibilities, handles the day-to-day running of the backup service for their organization. Maintaining control over your DPM environment while effectively delegating tasks to a specific support team can be challenging, and this is where role-based access control (RBAC) in Microsoft System Center DPM comes in.

Getting ready

Microsoft System Center DPM provides eight default RBAC roles out of the box. These include the following:

  • DPM Read-Only Operator: This can view everything, but can't modify or run anything
  • DPM Recovery Operator: This can only perform recoveries
  • DPM Reporting Operator: This can only run and manage reports
  • DPM Tier-1 Support: This can resume backups, take automated recommended actions, and open a DPM Scoped Console to troubleshoot issues
  • DPM Tier-2 Support: This can run backups on demand and perform corrective actions, such as enabling and disabling...