Applies To: System Center Data Protection Manager 2010
DPM creates a protection plan using your long-term recovery goals. You define your long-term protection plan by selecting a retention range for your data and a long-term backup schedule.
If you schedule your long-term backup on the same day that you create the protection group, the tape backup will run in the next calendar cycle. For example, if you create the protection group on January 1st, 2010 and schedule a yearly tape backup on the same day, the tape backup will not run until January 1st, 2011.
To create the protection group and to run the tape backup on the same day, in the Protection task area, in the Actions pane, click Create recovery point - Tape.
On the Specify Long-Term Protection page, in the Retention range box, Type or select how long you need your backed-up data available. You can select a retention range between 1 and 99 years.
In the Frequency of backup box, select the backup frequency that you want. The backup frequency is based on the specified retention range, as shown in the following list:
When the retention range is 1–99 years, you can select backups to occur daily, weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, quarterly, half-yearly, or yearly.
When the retention range is 1–11 months, you can select backups to occur daily, weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly.
When the retention range is 1–4 weeks, you can select backups to occur daily or weekly.
Note
On a stand-alone tape drive, for a single protection group, DPM uses the same tape for daily backups until there is insufficient space on the tape. For multiple protection groups, DPM requires separate tapes. Therefore, we recommend that you minimize the number of protection groups that you create if you are using a stand-alone tape drive for your backups.
Click Restore Defaults to restore the defaults back to a three month retention range and a weekly backup frequency.
In the Protection Objectives section, click Customize to change the tape label and to customize the schedule of backup jobs for your recovery goals. This schedule will replace the default schedule.
To change the long-term backup schedule, click Modify. You have a number of scheduling options for long-term protection, depending on your retention range and backup frequency. For more information, see the following Changing Your Long-Term Backup Schedule section. If you are not modifying the long-term backup schedule, click Next.
Changing Your Long-Term Backup Schedule
You can use the Modify Long-Term Schedule screen to change your long-term backup schedule. The following table lists the backup frequency and the schedule you can change depending on the retention range you selected. After you modify the long-term backup schedule, click OK, and then click Next.
Backup frequency
Configuration options (depending on retention range)
Daily
Time for daily backup
Day of week and time for monthly backup
Date and time for yearly backup
Weekly
Time and day of week for weekly backup
Day of week and time for monthly backup
Date and time for yearly backup
Biweekly
Time and day of week for biweekly backup
Day of week and time for monthly backup
Date and time for yearly backup
Monthly
Date and time for monthly backup (monthly backups are performed on the specified day of the month).
Examples:
If on Jan 10 you schedule a monthly backup to run on the 15th day of the month, the first backup will happen on January 15.
If on Jan 10 you schedule a monthly backup to run on the 5th day of the month, then the first backup will happen on Feb 5.
If you schedule a monthly backup within 24 hours from the current time and date, then the first backup will happen the next month on the specified day.
Example:
If on Jan 10 3:00 P.M. you schedule a monthly backup to run on the 11th day of the month at 10:00 A.M., then the first backup will happen on Feb 11 10:00 A.M. and then every month thereafter.
Quarterly
Date and time for quarterly backup (quarterly backups are performed in January, April, July, and October on the specified day of the month).
Examples:
If on Jan 10 you schedule a quarterly backup to run on the 15th day of the month, the first backup will happen on January 15 and every three months thereafter.
If on Jan 10 you schedule a quarterly backup to run on the 5th day of the month, then the first backup will happen on April 5 and then every three months thereafter.
If you schedule a quarterly backup within 24 hours from the current time and date, then the first backup will happen the next quarter on the specified day and every three months thereafter.
Example:
If on Jan 10 3:00 P.M. you schedule a quarterly backup to run on the 11th day of the month at 10:00 A.M., then the first backup will happen on April 11 at 10:00 A.M. and then every three months thereafter.
Half-yearly
Date and time for half yearly backup (half yearly backups are performed two times in a year on the specified month and date).
Examples:
If on January 10 2009 you schedule a half yearly backup to run on the January 15, then the first backup will happen on January 15 2009 and then every six months thereafter.
If on January 10 2009 you schedule a half yearly backup to run on the January 5, then the first backup will happen on July 5 2009 and then every six months thereafter.
If you schedule a half yearly backup within 24 hours from the current time and date, then the first backup will happen after six months on the specified month and date and then every six months thereafter.
Example:
If on January 10 2009 3:00 P.M. you schedule a half yearly backup to run on the January 11 at 10:00 A.M., then the first backup will happen on July 11 2009 at 10:00 A.M. and then every six months thereafter.
Yearly
Date and time for yearly backup (yearly backups are performed one time in a year on the specified month and date).
Examples:
If on January 10 2009 you schedule a yearly backup to run on the January 15, then the first backup will happen on January 15 2009 and then every year thereafter.
If on January 10 2009 you schedule a yearly backup to run on the January 5, then the first backup will happen on January 5 2010 and then every year thereafter.
If you schedule a yearly backup within 24 hours from the current time and date, then the first backup will happen the next year on the specified month and date and every year thereafter.
Example:
If on January 10 2009 3:00 P.M. you schedule a yearly backup to run on the January 11 at 10:00 A.M., then the first backup will happen on January 11 2010 at 10:00 A.M. and then every year thereafter.