How to Create a Protection Group
Applies To: System Center Data Protection Manager 2010
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. For information about managing protection groups, see Deploying DPM 2010.
Before you can create your first protection group, you must add a disk to the storage pool and install agents on the computers you plan to protect.
To create a protection group, use the New Protection Group Wizard.
You can use DPM to protect the following protection group members:
To view the table that shows the data sources that Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) protects and the level of data that you can recover using DPM, see What Is a Protection Group?
To start the Create New Protection Group Wizard
In DPM Administrator Console, click Protection on the navigation bar.
In the Actions pane, click Create protection group. The Create New Protection Group Wizard appears.
Review the Welcome page, and then click Next.
Note
If you do not want the wizard to display the Welcome page when you create protection groups in the future, select Skip this page next time.
To create and save a protection group using DPM Management Shell
Use the following syntax to create a virtual instance of a new protection group:
New-ProtectionGroup [-DPMServerName] <String> [[-Name] <String> ] [-Verbose] [-Debug] [-ErrorAction <ActionPreference> ] [-ErrorVariable <String> ] [-OutVariable <String> ] [-OutBuffer <Int32> ]
Add data sources to the new protection group.
Set exclusions and job start times if required.
Set the protection type.
Set the replica creation method.
Set the policy objectives.
Use the following syntax to save the new protection group:
Set-ProtectionGroup [-ProtectionGroup] <ProtectionGroup> [-Async] [-TranslateDSList <Datasource[]> ] [-Verbose] [-Debug] [-ErrorAction <ActionPreference> ] [-ErrorVariable <String> ] [-OutVariable <String> ] [-OutBuffer <Int32> ]
For more information, type "Get-Help New-ProtectionGroup -detailed" in DPM Management Shell.
For technical information, type "Get-Help New-ProtectionGroup -full" in DPM Management Shell.