What Types of Backups Does DPM 2007 Support?
Applies To: System Center Data Protection Manager 2007
Data Protection Manager 2007 supports a variety of backup scenarios, including the following:
Disk-based data protection and recovery.
Tape-based backup and archive solutions.
Protection of:
File data from volumes, shares, and folders.
Application data, such as Microsoft Exchange Server storage groups, Exchange Server Standby Continuous Replication (SCR), Microsoft SQL Server databases, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 sites, and Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 and its virtual machines.
Mirrored SQL Server databases.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 sites using mirrored SQL Server databases.
Files for workstations running Windows XP Professional SP2 and all Windows Vista editions except Home.
Files and application data on clustered servers.
System state for protected computers running Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP.
Hyper-V
Local Data Backup on the DPM Server (Files and Hyper-V only)
Disk-Based and Tape-Based Support
With DPM data protection, you can use disk-based storage, tape-based storage, or both.
Disk-based storage, also called D2D (disk-to-disk), is a type of backup in which data from one computer is stored on the hard disk of another computer. This contrasts with the more traditional method of backing up data from one computer to a storage media such as tape, also called D2T (disk-to-tape). For extra protection, the two methods can be combined in a D2D2T (disk-to-disk-to-tape) configuration, which provides the rapid recovery benefits of disk-based storage in the short term and archive storage for critical data using tape-based storage in the long term.