Protecting Production Servers; Restoring Dpm Files - HP BB118BV - StorageWorks Data Protector Express Package User Manual

Backing up the entire DPM server
If you want to back up the entire DPM server, check the icon for the server. This selection will back up all
replicas and the DPM database as well as the file systems, the system state and the backup catalog, if the
backup server is installed on that server.
Backing up all the replicas
If you want to back up the replicas of all the files in all the production servers that are protected by the
DPM server, check the Replicas icon.
Backing up individual production servers
If you want to back up all the files in one or more production servers that are protected by the DPM
server, check one or more of the appropriate Protected Server icons.
Backing up individual shares
If you want to back up all the files in one or more shares in a production server that is protected by the
DPM server, check one or more of the appropriate Share icons.
Backing up individual files
Finally, you can back up individual files by checking one or more of the appropriate File icons to back up
the files you select.

Protecting Production Servers

The Data Protector Express DPM agent does not provide complete data protection for production servers;
it only protects data that is being protected by the DPM server. It cannot fully protect system state data on
the production server.
For disaster recovery protection, you need to install a client-licensed version of Data Protector Express on
the production server and prepare it for disaster recovery as described in the DR section. You can exclude
from this job all data protected by the Microsoft DPM server. This job should be scheduled regularly to
account for changes to the system.
DPM-specific backup jobs read the replicated data from the DPM server. Thus after the initial production
server backup, most future backups can consist of backing up the single centralized DPM server machine.

Restoring DPM files

You can restore data to the production server or the DPM server. If you lose the data on your DPM data
disk, you can restore to the replica content area on the DPM server to reduce network traffic when
synchronizing the DPM server or if you don't have a license for the production server. However, it is
recommended that you restore data directly to the production server. Once restored, DPM will
synchronize the production data with the replica on the DPM server. Please refer to Microsoft's
documentation for how to synchronize data between the DPM server and the production servers.
When an object is backed up, the catalog generates two versions of it in the catalog: one on the production
server and one on the DPM server. Either version can be restored.
When you open the Selection wizard page, you will see the Network icon. Double-click the Network icon
to see a list of servers that have backed up files. Expand the selection tree on this wizard page to choose
the servers, shares, and files you want to restore.