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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

Creating a plan for backing up end user data


Before you can start protecting Windows clients with Microsoft System Center DPM, you need to define a plan for backing up end user data and determine that all of the prerequisites for that plan are in place. The following recipe builds out this plan at a high level and shows you what things you need to check to ensure that you are in a position to support the backing up of end user data.

Getting ready

Before you can deploy Microsoft System Center DPM to protect Windows clients, you will need to verify that all of the deployment prerequisites have been met:

  1. You will need to ensure that the version of the client operating system that you want to protect is actually supported by DPM. Supported client operating systems include the following:
    • Windows 10
    • Windows 8 and 8.1
    • Windows 7
  2. A single DPM server can protect up to 3,000 client computers running either the 64-bit or 32-bit versions of the previously listed operating systems. If you have more than 3,000...