Performing General Maintenance on File Servers and Workstations

Applies To: System Center Data Protection Manager 2010

General maintenance includes tasks such as disk and file maintenance, updating operating systems and applications, and protecting data by using antivirus software and performing regular backups.

When you need to perform maintenance on a protected server and do not want protection jobs to continue for the duration of the maintenance, you can use the following procedure to disable the protection agent.

Note

If you disable a protection agent for a server that is a cluster node, you should disable the protection agent for every node of the cluster.

To disable a protection agent

  1. In DPM Administrator Console, click Management on the navigation bar.

  2. On the Agents tab, in the display pane, select the name of the computer with the protection agent you want to disable.

  3. In the Actions pane, click Disable protection agent.

  4. In the dialog box, click OK to confirm that you want to proceed.

In This Section

Using Windows Maintenance Tools on File Servers and Workstations

Applying Operating System Updates on File Servers and Workstations

Running Antivirus Software on File Servers and Workstations

See Also

Concepts

Managing Clustered File Servers
Performing File Server and Workstation Management Tasks