Before you enable protection, you should always verify that the targeted SQL Server is accessible and that the DPM agent is reporting OK in the DPM console. Now take the following steps:
- Open your DPM Administrator Console, click on the Protection workspace, and then click on the New button up in the ribbon bar.
- In the Welcome to the New Protection Group Wizard, select Servers, and then click on Next > to continue.
- Next, you need to expand the appropriate server and then choose, for example, under the SQL items, where it says All SQL Servers, the appropriate server instance and, in that, the appropriate databases, as shown in the following screenshot. Click on Next > to continue:
- Now, what you could also do is enable ...