Understanding data protection

Published : April 8, 2005 | Updated : August 17, 2005

While you are deploying, configuring, and operating Data Protection Manager (DPM), you may want to learn more about the underlying technologies and how the product works.

What do you want to know?

• How does data protection work?

• What is a replica?

• What is a shadow copy?

• What is synchronization?

• What is a consistency check?

• What is a protection group?

• What is a protection group member?

• What is auto discovery?

Related Links

• Working with protection groups
• Working with replicas
• Working with shadow copies