Select Data Protection Method
Applies To: System Center Data Protection Manager 2010
Use the Select Data Protection Method page of the Create New Protection Group Wizard to select how you want to protect your data. You can select short-term protection using either disk or tape, and you can select long-term protection using only tape.
This page contains the elements described in the following table.
Elements
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
Protection group name |
Accept the default name, or type a new name for the protection group. |
I want short-term protection using: |
For servers:
Important If you do not have a tape library attached to the DPM server, only Disk is available for short-term protection For client computers
Important For client computers, only disk-based short-term protection is available. |
I want long-term protection using tape |
Select this check box for long-term protection using tape. Important When protecting servers, if you are using tape for both short-term and long-term protection, DPM creates copies of the latest short-term tape full backup to generate your long-term tape backup. Therefore, we recommend that you schedule your short-term protection full backup to run a day prior to your long-term protection. This enables your long-term tape backup to leverage the short-term tape backup that DPM created the day before. If you schedule the long-term tape backup to run prior to the short-term tape backup, the long-term backup will not leverage the latest short-term full backup. |
After selecting a name and a protection method for the protection group, click Next.