How DPM Displays Times

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Published : September 27, 2005

DPM automatically schedules synchronization and shadow copy jobs in the time zone of the file server. In all other areas of DPM Administrator Console, system times are displayed in the time zone of the DPM server. Although you schedule jobs to run in the time zone of the file server, the start times and shadow copy times of the jobs are displayed in the time zone of the DPM server.

For example, suppose that your DPM server is located in Berlin, and your file server is located in Reykjavik, which is two hours behind Berlin. When you schedule synchronization and shadow copies for 6:00 P.M, the jobs run at 6:00 P.M. in Reykjavik time, the time on the file server. However, if a user in Reykjavik requests to have data recovered to its state as of 6:00 P.M. yesterday, you must search for the shadow copy that represents 8:00 P.M. Berlin time, because the DPM recovery user interface represents shadow copy times in the time zone of the DPM server.