Select Short-Term Goals
Applies To: System Center Data Protection Manager 2010
Use the SpecifyShort-Term Goals page of the Create New Protection Group Wizard to generate your short-term disk-based recovery goals.
This page contains the elements described in the following table.
Elements
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
Retention range |
Type or select how long you need your backed-up data available. You can select a retention range between 1 and 64 days for short-term disk-based protection. |
Synchronization frequency: Every |
Select how frequently you want the client computers to synchronize data automatically to the DPM server replica. You can select a synchronization frequency interval between 1 hour to 24 hours. The default behavior is every 4 hours. This means that the selected client computers will automatically try to synchronize if the last successful synchronization happened more than 4 hours ago. |
Recovery points for client computers: Modify |
Click Modify to change the recovery point schedule for client computer data. Recovery points are created according to the schedule you configure. For client computer protection, you select the days and times that you want DPM to create your recovery points to accommodate your business needs and recovery requirements. |
Alert me when the recovery points fail for: days |
Select the Alerting option to receive alerts when the recovery points fails for the selected number of days. |
After specifying your short-term recovery goals for the protection group, click Next.