Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2010 -- Table of Contents -- Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2010 -- Credits -- About the Author -- Acknowledgement -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why subscribe? -- Free access for Packt account holders -- Instant updates on new Packt books -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. DPM Overview -- What is DPM? -- Cons of DPM -- DPM pricing -- DPM feature set -- New features of DPM 2010 -- What makes DPM different from other back up solutions -- Summary -- 2. Planning For Your Backup Needs -- Why back up? -- Assessing your backup needs -- What to back up? -- Which media to use? -- Capacity planning -- Backup and restore time -- Backup schedule -- Local and offsite backup -- Integrity of backups and testing restore -- Data privacy and security -- Policies and processes -- Disaster Recovery -- Planning DPM deployment -- DPM backup and recovery goals -- Protection Groups -- Backup schedule and retention -- Choosing media for DPM -- Storage pools -- Capacity planning -- Other considerations -- DPM server configuration -- How many DPM servers? -- Location of DPM servers -- DPM SQL instance -- DPM security -- Antivirus on DPM server -- Firewall ports -- End-user recovery requirements -- Summary -- 3. Installation -- Prerequisites -- Hardware requirements -- Software requirements -- Operating system -- Software -- User privilege requirement -- Restrictions -- Single Instance Store -- Installing Single Instance Store (SIS) -- Installing DPM -- Installing DPM using a local instance of SQL Server 2008 -- Installing DPM using a remote instance of SQL Server 2008 -- Migrating from DPM 2007 to DPM 2010 -- Upgrade process.

The post-upgrade process -- Upgrading a protection agent -- Summary -- 4. Configuration -- Required configurations -- Adding disks to the storage pool -- Configuring tape libraries -- The WSS Writer service -- Optional configurations -- Auto Discovery -- Changing the Auto Discovery time -- Throttle -- Setting up an SMTP server -- Configuring DPM to use your SMTP server -- Configuring alert notifications -- Publishing DPM alerts -- Configuring DPM Management Shell -- Installing the DPM Management Shell -- Configuring DPM for End-user Recovery -- Configuring Active Directory and enabling End-user Recovery in DPM -- Manually prepare Active Directory for DPM -- Summary -- 5. Administration -- DPM structure -- DPM file locations -- DPM processes -- DPM processes that impact DPM performance -- Important DPM terms -- DPM Administrator Console -- Menu -- File -- Action -- View -- Help -- Navigation -- Monitoring -- Alerts -- Jobs -- Protection -- Recovery -- Reporting -- Management -- Display pane -- Details pane -- Information icon -- Actions pane -- DPM general maintenance -- Restarting the DPM server -- Running antivirus on a DPM server -- Disk Defragmenter and Check Disk -- Windows update on a DPM server -- Moving DPM to a different SQL instance -- Adding disks to the storage pool -- Removing and replacing a disk in the storage pool -- DPM reporting -- Monitoring with reports and alert notifications -- Displaying reports in DPM -- Managing DPM performance -- The pagefile on DPM -- DPM performance monitors -- Performance counters -- Processor usage -- Disk queue length -- Memory usage -- Ways to improve performance -- Summary -- 6. Configuring DPM to Back Up Servers and Clients -- Configuring DPM backup on servers -- Installing the DPM agent -- Installing the DPM agent manually -- Creating Protection Groups -- Backing up System State.

Protecting computers in workgroups and untrusted domains -- Configuring DPM backup on clients -- Configuring End-user Recovery -- Installing the DPM client -- Configuring clients in Protection Groups -- Summary -- 7. Backing Up Critical Applications -- Protecting Exchange with DPM -- Protecting Hyper-V with DPM -- Protecting SharePoint with DPM -- Protecting SQL Server with DPM -- Protecting ISA Server 2006 with DPM -- Summary -- 8. Recovery Options -- General recovery -- Recovery overview in the DPM Administrator Console -- Recovering files, folders, shares, and volumes -- Using self service recovery for end-users through the DPM client -- Recovering data using System State -- Bare Metal Backup and Recovery -- What is Bare Metal Backup and Recovery? -- How to perform a Bare Metal Recovery? -- Recovering BMR data in DPM -- Restoring BMR data on your server -- Option A: Restoring from a network share -- Option B: Restoring from a local hard drive -- Restoring critical applications with DPM -- Restoring Exchange mailboxes with DPM -- Recovering mail in Exchange 2007 -- Recovery in Exchange 2010 -- Restoring Hyper-V virtual machines with DPM -- Recovery of a VM to its original location -- Recovery of a VM to an alternate location -- Item-level recovery of a Hyper-V VM -- Restoring SharePoint data with DPM -- Farm recovery -- Recovering sites, documents, and lists -- Item-level Recovery -- Restoring SQL databases with DPM -- SQL database recovery -- Configuring and using SQL self service recovery for SQL administrators -- Setting up self service recovery for SQL -- Recovering through self service recovery for SQL -- Summary -- 9. Offsite, Cloud, Backup and Recovery -- DPM offsite backup -- Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape -- Backing up DPM using a secondary DPM server -- Backing up DPM using third-party software -- Third-party tool that supports DPM.

Third-party tool that supports only VSS -- Third-party tool that does not support DPM or VSS -- Re-establishing protection after recovering the primary DPM server -- DPM cloud backup -- Iron Mountain CloudRecovery® -- Installing the agent -- Configuring the agent -- CloudRecovery and adding protected data -- Restoring data from the cloud -- i365 EVault -- EDPM installation -- EDPM agent installation -- Windows -- Linux -- EDPM administration -- EDPM Dasboard -- EVault Console -- Vault -- Adding a Protection Set -- Recovery -- Summary -- 10. DPM PowerShell -- PowerShell -- Background of command line and scripting in Windows -- Basics of PowerShell -- Cmdlets -- Help -- Variables -- Pipeline -- Tab -- DPM Management Shell -- Overview of DMS -- DMS cmdlets -- DPM tasks and functions from the shell -- Library -- Disk management -- Protection -- Recovery -- Backup network -- Other -- DPM scripts -- Running pre-backup and post-backup scripts in DPM -- Overview of Opalis -- Summary -- 11. Troubleshooting and Resources -- Troubleshooting DPM -- Overview of DPM troubleshooting -- Troubleshooting DPM installation issues -- Troubleshooting agent installation issues -- Troubleshooting protected server issues -- Troubleshooting DPM client issues -- DPM resources -- Documentation -- List of DPM error codes -- List of DPM releases -- Forums -- Blogs -- Communities -- Training -- Other Tools -- Summary -- Index.