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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

Backing up the infrastructure layer


You can enable infrastructure backup either through the Microsoft Azure Stack Administration Portal or via a set of PowerShell cmdlets. You can then use these backups to restore your Microsoft Azure Stack appliance, by using cloud recovery in the event of a total failure of your appliance. Cloud recovery allows your cloud operators and tenants to log back in to either the Administration or Tenant Portal after a cloud recovery is complete.

Cloud recovery ensures that tenants have their subscriptions restored, including any roles and role-based access permissions, plans, offers, and any previously defined quotas for either compute, storage, or network. However, the Infrastructure Backup Service does not back up tenant infrastructure as a service (IaaS) virtual machines or network configurations, nor any storage resources, such as storage accounts, blobs, tables, and queues. So, when tenants log on after the cloud recovery process has completed, they will...