In the scenario where you have a traditional DPM-DPM-DR implementation in your datacenter (known as Chaining or Cyclic protection) to provide additional offsite protection from a disaster recovery scenario, where you have a secondary DPM server in one location backing up a primary DPM server that is deployed in another location. This scenario is known as a classic approach compared to the modern Azure Backup solution, which is considered a light version of implementing a disaster recovery.
In this recipe, we will show you how to recover your data based on the DPM-DPM-DR scenario.
Before you get started, you need to have a second DPM server installed and connected to the primary DPM server. To do so, open DPM Administrator Console
and go the Management
workspace, click on Add
under Production Servers
, select the production server type as Windows Servers
, then in Select agent deployment method
, choose Attach agents
and then select Computer...