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System Center Data Protection Manager
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<h2 id="overview">Overview</h2> <p>Data Protection Manager delivers centralized backup of branch offices and within the data center, by near-continuously protecting changed files at the <a href="/facts/Byte/BNHUp9Qq">byte</a>-level to a secondary disk, which can then be backed up to tape. This also enables rapid and reliable recovery from an easily accessible disk instead of waiting to locate and mount tapes. </p><p>Data Protection Manager 2006 was released on September 27, 2005 at <a href="/facts/Storage_Decisions/d5TNSDRm">Storage Decisions</a> in New York.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> The current version, Data Protection Manager 2019, supports protection of Windows <a href="/facts/File_server/4SFrAdHY">file servers</a>, <a href="/facts/Exchange_Server/9pu8G4It">Exchange Server</a>, <a href="/facts/Microsoft_SQL_Server/eCdt2JBL">Microsoft SQL Server</a>, <a href="/facts/SharePoint/wNvBzBI0">SharePoint</a> and <a href="/facts/Microsoft_Virtual_Server/2agVbahu">Microsoft Virtual Server</a>. It features <a href="/facts/Bare-metal_restore/6xClv4Pm">bare-metal restore</a>. </p> <h2 id="supported-workloads">Supported workloads</h2> <p>DPM offers support for a variety of Microsoft Workloads. Support varies between versions, with old operating systems being removed from new versions. </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Microsoft_Servers/mLeSDdQH">Microsoft Servers</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Microsoft_System_Center/mLeSDdQH">Microsoft System Center</a></li></ul> <h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2> <ul><li>Ganger, Devin; Ryan Femling (4 March 2008). <i>Mastering System Center Data Protection Manager 2008</i>. John Wiley & Sons. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-470-18152-2.</li> <li>Buchanan, Steve (23 May 2011). <i>Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2010</i>. Packt. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1-84968-202-2.</li> <li>Buffington, Jason (2 August 2010). <i>Data Protection for Virtual Data Centers</i>. Wiley. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-470-57214-6.</li> <li>Robert, Hedblom; Steve Buchanan; Islam Gomaa; Flemming Riis (2013). <i>Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2012</i>. Packt. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1-849-68630-3.</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/DPM">Official website</a></li> <li><a href="http://blogs.technet.com/dpm">Data Protection Manager blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://blogs.technet.com/jbuff">All Backed Up</a> – DPM product manager's blog</li> <li><a href="http://portal.sivarajan.com/2009/12/dpm-2007-hotfix-and-service-pack.html">DPM Version and Service Pack Information</a> (only updated to DPM2010)</li> <li><a href="https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/systemcenter/default.aspx">Data Protect Manager</a> on <i><a href="/facts/Microsoft_TechNet/XdFdowL4">Microsoft TechNet</a></i></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Microsoft Launches System Center Data Protection Manager as Part of Its Universal Distributed Storage Vision". January 2011. <a href="http://news.microsoft.com/2005/09/27/microsoft-launches-system-center-data-protection-manager-as-part-of-its-universal-distributed-storage-vision/" target="_blank">http://news.microsoft.com/2005/09/27/microsoft-launches-system-center-data-protection-manager-as-part-of-its-universal-distributed-storage-vision/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Business Continuity Dominates at Storage Decisions". January 2011. <a href="http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Trends/Business-Continuity-Dominates-at-Storage-Decisions/" target="_blank">http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Trends/Business-Continuity-Dominates-at-Storage-Decisions/</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>