How to add members
Published : April 8, 2005 | Updated : August 17, 2005
After you create a protection group, you may want to protect a data source on a protected volume that you did not select for protection when you created the group. You can add the unprotected data source to the existing protection group at any time.
To add protection group members
In DPM Administrator Console, click Protection on the navigation bar.
In the Display pane, select the protection group to which you want to add members.
In the Actions pane, click Add members.
In the Add Members wizard, follow the instructions to add data sources to the protection group.
Note
You can include data sources from more than one volume in a protection group.
You cannot include data sources from the same volume in different protection groups.
Data sources that are members of other protection groups and data sources that reside on a volume already protected by another protection group are displayed but cannot be selected.
When you select a parent folder or share, its subfolders are automatically selected and cannot be de-selected.
When you select a data source that contains a reparse point (mount points and junction points are data sources that contain reparse points), DPM prompts you to specify whether you want to include the target of the reparse point in the protection group. The reparse point itself is not replicated; you must manually recreate the reparse point when you recover the data.
We recommend that you exclude system volumes and program folders from protection groups. Protecting a system volume does not enable you to restore the operating system or state of a file server. For information about enabling a full restore of a file server, see the DPM Operations Guide.
If you have questions about any of the selections you need to make while you are using the Add Members wizard, click Help in the lower left corner of the screen.