Recovering Data

Applies To: System Center Data Protection Manager 2007

Loss of data is an unfortunate, perhaps even disastrous, event for any organization. Data Protection Manager (DPM) helps mitigate such losses by providing you with search and browse features that help you find the data that you need to recover. After you find the data, you can recover the version you find or you can display a list of all available versions so that you can select a specific version to recover. This data can be files, applications, or data from computers running SQL Server, Windows SharePoint Services, or Exchange Server. In addition, DPM supports protection and recovery of desktop computers and virtual servers.

It takes only a few minutes to find data, select a version, and start a recovery job or recovery collection (multiple jobs). Depending on the size of data being recovered, the job can take less than a minute or it could take hours. You can check the status of recovery jobs in the Monitoring task area.

In This Section

Understanding Data Recovery

How to Find Recoverable Data

Working with Recovery Points

How to Recover Data for File Servers

How to Recover Data for Exchange-Based Servers

How to Recover Data for SQL Servers

How to Recover Data for Virtual Machines

How to Recover Data for Desktop Computers

How to Recover Data for Windows SharePoint Services Servers

How to Recover System State

How to Configure End-User Recovery

See Also

Concepts

How to Configure End-User Recovery
Create New Protection Group Wizard
How to Find Recoverable Data
Recovery Wizard
Understanding Data Recovery