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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

Introduction


Most organizations rely on Microsoft server workloads to run their businesses. Ensuring the protection of Microsoft workloads is a critical part of the business continuity strategy, and organizations need a backup solution to ensure their workload data is protected from being attacked by Ransomware and other malicious corruptions and deletions. With Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) and Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS), you can protect workloads such as Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint Server, Microsoft Exchange Server, and Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs) not only to disk or tape media, but also to Microsoft Azure. Please read Chapter 10, Integrating DPM with Azure Backup, to learn more about hybrid cloud backup solutions for your organization.

This chapter describes how DPM orchestrates backup and recovery of different Microsoft workloads.