Recovery Wizard

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Applies To: System Center Data Protection Manager 2007

The Recovery Wizard guides you through the process of recovering data protected by Data Protection Manager (DPM) and backed up on disk and tape. You can recover the following:

  • File data, at the level of volumes, folders, and shares, on file servers running Windows Server 2003 or the Windows Server 2008 operating system

  • File data on workstations running Windows XP Professional SP2 and all editions of the Windows Vista operating system except the Windows Vista Home Premium operating system and the Windows Vista Home Basic operating system

  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 SP2 and Exchange Server 2007 data, at the level of storage groups and mailboxes

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2000 SP4, SQL Server 2005 SP1, and SQL Server 2005 SP2 data, at the level of databases

  • Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, at the level of farms

  • Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 host and guest configurations

  • System state

  • Secondary protected data

  • Replica of DPM server

The Recovery Wizard helps you make decisions about how you want to recover data and where you want to recover it from. These decisions can vary depending on the type of data you want to recover and include the following options:

  • Reviewing the recovery selection

  • Selecting the recovery type

  • Specifying the destination

  • Specifying recovery options

At various times during the recovery process, the Recovery Wizard provides default options, which you can override if you choose.

Note

Click Help on any wizard page if you need assistance while working in the wizard.

See Also

Tasks

How to Recover Data for Desktop Computers
How to Recover Data for Exchange-Based Servers
How to Recover Data for File Servers
How to Recover Data for SQL Servers
How to Recover Data for Virtual Machines
How to Recover Data for Windows SharePoint Services Servers
How to Recover System State

Concepts

DPM Wizards