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Just found this DPM book: ‘ Mastering System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 ’ by Devin L. Ganger (Author), Ryan Femling (Author) [..both 3Sharp, LLC] Has anyone read it? Is it any good for Exchange?
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Following on from the recent announcement on CloudRecovery for DPM from IronMountain ( Backup your DPM data into the cloud…? ) the DPM blog has just announced a webcast on the subject… ( here! ) “ Iron Mountain has recently announced the availability
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“ Iron Mountain Digital and Microsoft Work Together to Deliver Cloud-based Backup and Recovery Solution for Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 ” ..announced in the NY Times last week. “Iron Mountain Digital, the technology arm of Iron
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This is a smart idea… The DPM UI can be used in conjunction with Iron Mountain CloudRecovery to backup your data into the cloud. For protecting Exchange Server this means that you could use short term protection of your databases to disk via
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DPM 2007 SP1 -- how to do individual item restore for Exchange “This video continues the series of feature-level podcasts on DPM 2007, this week focusing on Exchange Server and item level restore. While DPM 2007 natively protects Exchange Storage Groups,
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Powershell Explore Your [Environment] on the Windows Powershell blog, written by Jeff Snover. The article takes a bit of reading but has a great walk through of using Powershell to invoke the System.Environment .Net class. For example: “ [Datetime]::Today
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Earlier this month Microsoft announced DPM Service Pack 1. Some pretty significant updates particularly around Windows 2008 and Hyper-V. For example using a combination of Hyper-V and DPM for branch offices is a pretty decent solution I think.
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One of the most often asked, and most difficult to answer, questions concerning Microsoft System Centre Data Protection Manager (dpm) is how long will it take to backup and restore data... As you'd expect the answer is 'it depends'. So I thought
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The ability to continue to provide a full service to your user community in the unlikely event of the loss of a datacentre is an increasingly common requirement. The use of Continuous Replication (CCR and SCR) with Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 is an obvious
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Let's say I have two data centres and a requirement that in the event of the loss of the primary data centre I can restore the messaging service with minimal downtime and minimal data loss. The decision is made to use SCR. I have also however
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Have been researching some basics of VSS and thought I would put together a quick diagram to show how the different bits fit together.. This is largely based on the generic VSS information I found at MSDN here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa381504(VS.85).aspx
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I recently posted an article to the Exchange Team site here - ' Protecting Exchange data with Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) ' and received a number of comments. I thought I would discuss some of the issues here on my blog rather
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I'm using DPM to backup my Exchange data and I want to restore a single mailbox only. Is that possible? This is a pretty common question at the moment and the answer is of course Yes . However DPM takes volume snapshots using VSS and so you
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I wrote a blog some time ago deconstructing the calculations within the DPM Storage Calculator. This is the blog: ' A closer look at the DPM 2007 Storage Calculator... ' The Storage Calculator has been updated and you can get the details here:
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Microsoft System Centre Data Protection Manager (DPM) is one of the suite of System Centre products to be released last year. DPM offers a new approach to backing up our Exchange data and introduces a number of new alternatives to traditional approaches
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