Creating Protection Groups
Applies To: Data Protection Manager, System Center Data Protection Manager 2007
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 or simply members.
The following table shows the data sources that System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 protects and the level of data that you can recover by using DPM.
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Note DPM does not support file protection on portable computers running Windows XP Professional SP2 and Windows Vista operating systems. |
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Before you can start protecting data, you must create at least one protection group. For guidelines about protection groups, in Planning a DPM 2007 Deployment, see Planning Protection Groups (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=91849).
The Create New Protection Group Wizard guides you through the process of creating a protection group. Protection group creation involves making a series of decisions about how you want to configure the group.
Throughout the protection group creation process, the wizard provides default options that you can override if you choose.