The following steps will guide you through configuring a backup network:
- On your DPM server, from the Windows desktop, right-click on the DPM Management Shell icon and select Run as administrator.
- In the PowerShell cmdlet window, run the following cmdlet:
Get-DPMBackupNetworkAddress
- This cmdlet runs and doesn't return a value. Here, we can see that a backup network is not configured as of yet and by default DPM is using the production network.
- On the protected server, use your preferred text editor to open the c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file. Add an entry using the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) notation of the DPM server backup NIC.
- On the DPM server, open the c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file. ...