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Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Cookbook
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Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Cookbook

by Charbel Nemnom, Patrick Lownds
December 2018
Intermediate to advanced
424 pages
11h 12m
English
Packt Publishing
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How it works...

When you choose a system state backup only, DPM communicates with Windows Server Backup (WSB) and requests a backup of the server's system state. By default DPM and WSB will use the drive with the most available free space, and the details pertaining to this drive are saved in the PSDataSourceConfig.XML file. This is the drive used by WSB to perform backups to.

On the other hand, when you choose the BMR option, which includes a system state backup, the backup job is performed directly to a share on the DPM server and not to a folder on the protected server. This share is created as follows:

  1. The DPM server talks to WSB and shares out the replica volume for that BMR backup. In this step, it doesn't tell WSB to use the drive ...
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ISBN: 9781787289284