Running Parallel Backups

Applies To: System Center Data Protection Manager 2010

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) supports running parallel backups of data sources in the same protection group to optimize your network usage. However, there are restrictions to performing parallel backups for SQL Server databases from the same protected computer because of restrictions in SQL Server.

Supported Scenarios

The following is a list of scenarios in which you can perform parallel backups of a SQL data source.

  • The databases are on Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

    Note

    Both the databases must be on different protection groups.

  • Both the databases are on different versions of SQL Server. For example, one is on Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and the other on Microsoft SQL Server 2005.

Unsupported Scenarios

Neither Microsoft SQL Server 2000 nor Microsoft SQL Server 2005 support parallel backups. If two databases from the same version and instance of SQL Server are scheduled for backup at the same time, the backup will happen serially.