Using System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM), you can prepare for disaster recovery by doing the following:
- Backing up protected computer system state. DPM allows
you to protect the system information of a computer and will allow
you to get the computer back up after a disaster. System protection
is basically about protecting the operating system files,
application files and the user files or data files on the
computer.
DPM treats the system protection data source as two components – Bare Metal Restore (BMR), and System State protection.
- BMR consists of protecting the operating
system files and all data on critical volumes except for user
data.
- System State protection consists of
protecting the operating system files.
- BMR consists of protecting the operating
system files and all data on critical volumes except for user
data.
- Adding a secondary DPM server. A secondary DPM
server can protect and restore the databases and replicas of
primary DPM servers, which are DPM servers directly
protecting file and application data sources. You can restore
protected computers directly from the secondary DPM server. The
secondary DPM server can also protect computers until the primary
DPM server is available.
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Backing up DPM databases to tape. You can use a DPM server to back up its own databases to its tape library, or you can use third-party software to back up the databases to tape or removable media. Backup of the DPM databases enables you to recover the configuration of protection groups after you reinstall DPM.
Important Of the preceding options, adding a secondary DPM server provides the greatest amount of protection. At a minimum, it is strongly recommended that you back up the DPM databases regularly, either using DPM or third-party software.
For more information about preparing for disaster recovery and recovering protected computers and DPM servers, in the DPM Operations Guide, see Disaster Recovery (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=179152).