Protection group name

Accept the default name, or type a new name for the protection group.

I want short-term protection using:

For servers:

• Select this check box for short-term protection, and then select the media you want to use from the drop-down list.
  
  

Important
If you do not have a tape library attached to the DPM server, only Disk is available for short-term protection

For client computers

• Select this check box for short-term protection.
  
  

Important
For client computers, only disk-based short-term protection is available.

I want long-term protection using tape

Select this check box for long-term protection using tape.

Important

When protecting servers, if you are using tape for both short-term and long-term protection, DPM creates copies of the latest short-term tape full backup to generate your long-term tape backup. Therefore, we recommend that you schedule your short-term protection full backup to run a day prior to your long-term protection. This enables your long-term tape backup to leverage the short-term tape backup that DPM created the day before. If you schedule the long-term tape backup to run prior to the short-term tape backup, the long-term backup will not leverage the latest short-term full backup.