The focus of Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 (DPM) is to protect different Microsoft Server workloads. It is built to protect and recover several Microsoft-based implementations, including different SharePoint Platforms.
DPM 2007 seamlessly blends the Continuous Data Protection (CDP) technology with traditional backups done on tapes. When you implement DPM 2007, the DPM server continuously protects the core server workload and provides you with different combinations of disk and tape backup and recovery solutions.
How DPM Helps Protect Microsoft SharePoint
Simple wizards and workflows of DPM 2007 make it simple for you to protect your data even if you are not a qualified system administrator or hold advanced degrees and certifications on various backup and storage technologies.
DPM 2007 further simplifies the task by presenting the data to be backed up in the same way or context in which the users access it. So if you are a SharePoint platform owner or administrator, you can easily manage your backups from the perspective of the application. You just need to select the SharePoint Farm you want to protect, and DPM will automatically understand the components that need to be backed up.
How DPM Provides Advanced Protection to your SharePoint Server
DPM is designed to understand both advanced and distributed architecture of SharePoint Server, which makes it a more effective solution to protect your SharePoint implementation. Let's have a look at some of the main benefits:
Easy Adaptability to Change in Technology: DPM leverages the SharePoint volume Shadowcopy Service (VSS) writer to keep a track of any changes and quickly adapt to them. Let's consider that a new SQL server is added to your SharePoint infrastructure. SharePoint VSS writer gives this information to the DPM server. The server responds by adapting to this change. Now if you are a DPM administrator, you just need to acknowledge the notification displayed in the DPM administrative console. After you acknowledge, the new SQL server is protected the next time the scheduled SharePoint backup takes place.
Consistent Protection for All Data Types: A single SharePoint infrastructure usually contains many different types of data. This includes, files indexed for Enterprise search, SQL databases, and web and farm servers' metadata. Although this data is of different types, you need to take adequate measures to protect it. The comprehensive data backup solution provided by DPM covers all types of data stored on different platforms to ensure complete and hassle-free backup solution for your SharePoint infrastructure.
Simplifies Backup: With such a large variety of data managed through it, it is tricky to effectively backup the SharePoint infrastructure. Many legacy backup solutions have failed miserably to meet SharePoint backup goals and have disappointed customers in the past. DPM 2007 is designed to completely and effectively understand and meet all requirements to protect SharePoint implementations.
Not just, SharePoint 2007, DPM 2007 also provides complete support for SharePoint 2003 and SharePoint 2.0 implementations that do not have native VSS write capability. For these, DPM protects the main SQL databases and metadata to ensure complete protection.
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