System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) allows you to co-locate protection groups on a tape. Using this feature, you can group recovery points of multiple protection groups on a single tape. This optimizes the tape usage in case you have many small protection groups.
Restrictions
The following restrictions apply to using data co-location in DPM:
- You cannot apply co-location selectively. If
enabled, it applies to all protection groups.
- Only protection groups with the same
retention period can be co-located on the same tape.
- Encrypted and non-encrypted datasets cannot
be co-located on the same tape.
- Datasets from different vaults cannot be
co-located on the same tape.