Creating Protection Groups

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Applies To: Data Protection Manager, System Center Data Protection Manager 2007

A protection group is a collection of data sources that share the same protection configuration. Data sources within a protection group are referred to as protection group members or simply members.

The following table shows the data sources that System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 protects and the level of data that you can recover by using DPM.

Product Protectable Data Recoverable Data
  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 with Service Pack 2 (SP2)

  • Exchange Server 2007
  • Storage group
  • Storage group

  • Database

  • Mailbox
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with Service Pack 4 (SP4)

  • SQL Server 2005 with Service Pack 1 (SP1) or later
  • Database
  • Database
  • Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

  • Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
  • Farm
  • Farm

  • Database

  • Site

  • File or list
  • Windows Server 2003 with SP1

  • Windows Storage Server 2003 with SP1
  • Volume

  • Share

  • Folder
  • Volume

  • Share

  • Folder

  • File data
  • Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1
  • Virtual server host configuration

  • Virtual machines

  • Data for applications running in virtual machines
  • Virtual server host configuration

  • Virtual machines

  • Data for applications running in virtual machines
  • Workstations running Windows XP Professional SP2

  • Windows Vista operating systems, except the Windows Vista Home Premium operating system (the computer running Windows Vista must be a member of a domain)

Note

DPM does not support file protection on portable computers running Windows XP Professional SP2 and Windows Vista operating systems.
  • Volume

  • Share

  • Folder

  • File data
  • Volume

  • Share

  • Folder

  • File data

Before you can start protecting data, you must create at least one protection group. For guidelines about protection groups, in Planning a DPM 2007 Deployment, see Planning Protection Groups (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=91849).

The Create New Protection Group Wizard guides you through the process of creating a protection group. Protection group creation involves making a series of decisions about how you want to configure the group.

Throughout the protection group creation process, the wizard provides default options that you can override if you choose.

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