New-DPMProtectionGroup

Creates a protection group on the DPM server.

Parameter Set: Default
New-DPMProtectionGroup [[-DPMServerName] <String> ] [[-Name] <String> ] [ <CommonParameters>]

The New-DPMProtectionGroup cmdlet creates a protection group on a System Center 2012 – Data Protection Manager (DPM) server. This is the first step to create a protection group. This cmdlet returns a new protection group object on which you can perform the remaining steps of creating a protection group. However, the protection group is not created until you run the Set-DPMProtectionGroup cmdlet.

Use the following cmdlets to create a new protection group. Use one or more cmdlets from each step:

1. New-DPMProtectionGroup

2. Add-DPMChildDatasource, Remove-DPMChildDatasource, Set-DPMDatasourceProtectionOption, Set-DPMProtectionJobStartTime

3. Set-DPMProtectionType

4. Set-DPMReplicaCreationMethod

5. Set-DPMPolicyObjective, Set-DPMPolicySchedule (Short term)

6. Get-DPMDatasourceDiskAllocation

7. Set-DPMDatasourceDiskAllocation

8. Set-DPMPolicyObjective, Set-DPMPolicySchedule (Long term)

9. Set-DPMTapeBackupOption

10. Set-DPMProtectionGroup

Depending on your choice in a previous step, some steps might not be applicable. For example, if you set disk-based protection in step 3, steps 8 and 9 are not required.

It is important to remember that the protection group is created only after you run the Set-DPMProtectionGroup cmdlet. Until you run Set-DPMProtectionGroup, the protection group exists only in memory.

Specifies the name of a DPM server on which this cmdlet creates a protection group. If you do not specify a name, the cmdlet uses the current computer name.

Specifies a name for the protection group.

This cmdlet supports the common parameters: -Verbose, -Debug, -ErrorAction, -ErrorVariable, -OutBuffer, and -OutVariable. For more information, see    about_CommonParameters (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=113216).

The input type is the type of the objects that you can pipe to the cmdlet.

The output type is the type of the objects that the cmdlet emits.

• ProtectionGroup

This command creates an instance of a protection group named ProtectGroup01 in the memory of the DPM server named DPMServer02. This is the first step of creating the protection group.

PS C:\> New-DPMProtectionGroup -DPMServerName "DPMServer02" -Name "ProtectGroup01"

Update-DPMProtectionGroup

Get-DPMProtectionGroup

Rename-DPMProtectionGroup

Set-DPMProtectionGroup