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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

Enabling file server protection with DPM


SCDPM provides a flexible data source protection solution for file server workloads, combining fast backup and restore scenarios, and is fully optimized. This recipe will cover how to configure file server protection by protecting shares that reside on NTFS, ReFS, or deduplicated volumes.

Getting ready

Before you enable file server protection, you need to make sure that the following prerequisites are satisfied:

  • Modern Backup Storage (MBS) is configured as target disk storage to store all the backup data
  • The file server you would like to protect is a supported version for DPM protection
  • Install DPM agents on each of the file servers that need to be protected
  • The agent status should report OK in the DPM management console

How to do it...

With the agents installed on the file servers that need to be protected, you can enable protection for the workloads. Complete the following steps to configure protection groups:

  1. Open your DPM Administrator Console, click on...