How to Recover Files and Folders Stored on the DPM Server
Applies To: System Center Data Protection Manager 2010
DPM enables you to recover files and folders from backups stored on the DPM server that are managed by your backup administrator. To recover your data, you need to know the name of the DPM server on which the data was backed up. To find out the name of the DPM server, contact your backup administrator.
To recover data from backups stored on the DPM server
Click Start, point to All Programs, click Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2010, and then click Data Protection Manager Client.
In the Data Protection Manager Client, click the Recovery tab.
In the Search for recovery points on text box, type the name of DPM server on which the data was backed up, or click the Search button to start the search for the existing recovery points on the DPM server.
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To find out the name of the DPM server, contact your backup administrator.
To access the backups stored on the DPM server, in the list of files and folders, click the open link that belongs to the respective recovery points.
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Available recovery points are listed in the display pane. In the display pane, the Time column lists the time stamps and the Link column lists the open links (backup folder locations on the DPM server) for the each available recovery points.
Select the previous version you want to restore and then click Restore.