Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Cookbook

By : Nemnom, Lownds

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Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Cookbook

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By: Nemnom, Lownds

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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.

Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

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Installing and Upgrading DPM

Introduction

Planning your DPM deployment

Preparing your DPM deployment

Installing SQL Server for the DPM database

Enabling the Transport Layer Security 1.2 protocol for DPM

Installing DPM

Automating the installation of DPM

Upgrading to the latest release of DPM

Migrating legacy storage to Modern Backup Storage

Installing the DPM agents

Upgrading the DPM agents

DPM Post-Installation and Management Tasks

Introduction

Using the DPM UI

Enabling Modern Backup Storage (MBS)

Configuring DPM agent throttling

Optimizing the protection group

Working with filters

Configuring email notifications

Applying Update Rollups (UR) to the DPM server

Configuring a dedicated backup network

Configuring Workload-Aware Storage

Backup Storage Migration

Preventing unexpected data loss

Creating a manual initial replica

Creating custom reports

Protecting Hyper-V VMs

Introduction

Configuring Hyper-V protection with DPM

Protecting Hyper-V VMs with Resilient Change Tracking

Protecting Hyper-V clusters over SMB and Hyper-V replica

Protecting Hyper-V clusters over Clustered Shared Volumes

Protecting Hyper-V shielded VMs

Enabling DPM for scale-out Hyper-V protection

Recovering a Hyper-V virtual machine

Recovering a Hyper-V virtual hard disk

Recovering a single file using Item-Level Recovery

Monitoring DPM and Configuring Role-Based Access

Introduction

Monitoring DPM

Publishing the DPM logs

Monitoring DPM with SCOM

Monitoring DPM without SCOM

Installing the DPM Central Console

Using the DPM Scoped Console

Configuring remote administration

Configuring and using role-based access

Central reporting

Protecting Microsoft Workloads with DPM

Introduction

Enabling file server protection with DPM

Enabling SQL Server protection with DPM

Enable Windows bare metal protection with DPM

Securing Windows Client with DPM

Introduction

Creating a plan for backing up end user data

Plan for off-site end user backup

Configuring DPM and Active Directory for end user protection

Installing the agent automatically and manually on a client computer

Performing image-level backups of client computers with DPM

Protecting Microsoft Azure Stack with DPM

Introduction

Preparing to back up Azure Stack with DPM

Backing up the infrastructure layer

Backing up the Azure Stack tenant layer

Overview of cloud recovery

Protecting Workgroups and Untrusted Domains

Introduction

Setting up DPM protection with NTLM authentication

Setting up DPM protection with certificate authentication

Recovering Data from Backup

Introduction

Recovering file server data with PowerShell

Recovering SQL data using the Self-Service Recovery Tool (SSRT)

Recovering a failed server using bare-metal recovery

Recovering data from Azure Backup

Recovering data from an external DPM server

Recovering data from a secondary DPM server

Integrating DPM with Azure Backup

Introduction

Integrating DPM with Azure Backup

Protecting data with Azure Backup

Creating online recovery points

Monitoring and centralized reporting

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Enable Windows bare metal protection with DPM

In this recipe, we'll enable Windows bare metal and System state protection. The System state backup enables you to recover when a machine starts but you've lost system files and registry. A System state backup includes the following:

Domain member: Boot files, COM+ class registration database, registry
Domain controller: Active Directory (NTDS), boot files, COM+ class registration database, registry, system volume (SYSVOL)
Machine running cluster services: Additionally backs up cluster server metadata
Machine running certificate services: Additionally backs up certificate data

On the other hand, Bare Metal Recovery, known as BMR, is useful. By definition, it includes a System state backup; for instance, it provides protection when a machine won't start and you have to recover everything.

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