Bare-Metal Recovery (BMR) enables you to make a full protection of a machine. Usually BMR is used on servers. Thanks to BMR, even if a server crashes, you can restore it from a recovery point. The main advantage of BMR is that the restoration is performed very fast. In the example of this post, the restoration of a virtual domain ...
Read More »Use Windows Azure with Data Protection Manager
Data Protection Manager is able to use Windows Azure as storage support. The feature is called Backup Vault in Windows Azure. This last can be used also with Windows Server Backup feature. To be able to use Windows Azure with Data Protection Manager, you need a computer certificate on the DPM server (self-signed or signed by a certificate authority, and ...
Read More »Protection groups in Data Protection Manager
System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) is a Microsoft backup solution. The configuration of this backup solution is based on Protection Groups. A protection group contains several data sources that share same configuration such as backup duration (Short-term or Long-term), retention range etc. DPM can store backup on disk (disk-to-disk or D2D), on library tape (disk-to-tape or D2T) or on ...
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