Planning for Migration

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Applies To: System Center Data Protection Manager 2007

Before you create your upgrade plan, review "Planning Protection Groups," and "Planning for DPM Deployment," in Planning a DPM 2007 Deployment (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=66733). Your upgrade decisions should be coordinated with your overall DPM 2007 deployment plan.

  • Select protected servers to migrate

    Your business needs will determine which data sources you want to protect with DPM 2007. For example, in your current DPM 2006 infrastructure, you might be using a third-party solution to back up a replica for a specific file server to tape because of legal requirements. If you migrate protection of that file server to DPM 2007, you can take advantage of the tape backup that is integrated in DPM 2007.

    However, you cannot migrate protected servers running Windows 2000 Server to DPM 2007. If your network includes file servers running Windows 2000 Server, you could retain a DPM 2006 server to provide protection for the data.

  • Schedule the migration

    Determine the order in which you want to migrate the DPM 2006 protection groups, and determine when you want to perform the migration as part of your DPM 2007 deployment. During the migration, you uninstall the DPM 2006 file agent from protected servers and install the DPM 2007 protection agent, which requires you to restart the protected servers.

  • Select new data sources to add to a migrated protection group

    If you want to combine migrated data sources with new data sources in the same protection group, first complete the migration of the protection group, and then add the new data sources to the migrated protection group.

  • Modify recovery goals and protection policy

    When you created the protection group in DPM 2006, you configured synchronization frequency and might have modified the default shadow copy schedule. The migrated protection group retains those settings for short-term, disk-based protection, and DPM 2007 applies the default retention range of five days.

    After you migrate the protection group and replicas, you can modify the protection group to add long-term, tape-based protection. You can also modify the retention range, synchronization frequency, and recovery point schedule for short-term, disk-based protection.

    Note

    DPM 2006 enables synchronization as frequently as hourly. DPM 2007 enables synchronization as frequently as every 15 minutes. The synchronization frequency that was applied to the protection group in DPM 2006 is preserved by the migration tool. Consider modifying your migrated protection groups to benefit from more frequent synchronizations in DPM 2007.

  • Back up archived reports

    Reports are not migrated to DPM 2007. To create historical reports for the protection groups that you plan to migrate, you must schedule each report on the DPM 2006 server, and each report schedule must run before you begin the migration.

    For instructions on scheduling reports, see "How to schedule reports" in DPM 2006 Help (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=83513).