Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Cookbook

Over 60 recipes to achieve a robust and advanced backup and recovery solution leveraging SCDPM

Key Features
Adapt to the modern data center design challenges and improve storage efficiency

Effective recipes to help you create your own robust architectural designs

Solve data protection and recovery problems in your organization


Book Description
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.
What you will learn
Install and prepare SQL Server for the SCDPM database

Reduce backup storage with SCDPM and data deduplication

Learn about the prerequisites for supported Hyper-V Server protection

Integrate SCDPM with other System Center products to build optimal services

Protect and restore the SCDPM database

Protect your data center by integrating SCDPM with Azure Backup

Manually create online recovery points and recover production data from Azure

Protect and learn about the requirements to recover Azure Stack with SCDPM
Who this book is for
If you are an SCDPM administrator, this book will help you verify your knowledge and provide you with everything you need to know about the new release of System Center Data Protection Manager.