DPM Directory Structure
Applies To: System Center Data Protection Manager 2010
When you begin protecting data with DPM, you will notice that the installation path of DPM contains three folders in the Volumes directory:
\Microsoft DPM\DPM\Volumes\DiffArea
\Microsoft DPM\DPM\Volumes\Replica
\Microsoft DPM\DPM\Volumes\ShadowCopy
The DiffArea folder contains mounted shadow copy volumes that store the recovery points for a data source.
The Replica folder contains mounted replica volumes.
The ShadowCopy folder contains local backup copies of the DPM database. In addition, when you use DPMBackup.exe to create backup shadow copies of the replicas for archive by third-party backup software, the backup shadow copies are stored in the ShadowCopy folder.