Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 R2 Cookbook: Over 100 recipes to build your own designs exploring the advanced functionality and features of System Center DPM 2012 R2
If you are a DPM administrator, this book will help you verify your knowledge and provide you with everything you need to know about the 2012 R2 release. No prior knowledge about System Center DPM is required, however some experience of running backups will come in handy.
Who is this book for?
If you are a DPM administrator, this book will help you verify your knowledge and provide you with everything you need to know about the 2012 R2 release. No prior knowledge about System Center DPM is required, however some experience of running backups will come in handy.
What you will learn
Protect file shares, volumes, and catalogues and restore file data to its original or alternate location
Integrate DPM with other System Center members to build optimal services
Protect various environments such as HyperV, SQL, SharePoint, and Exchange Server
Build supported, optimal, and flexible restore scenarios
Protect and restore SharePoint farms
Provide online protection for your data center by integrating System Center DPM with Azure
Automate, monitor, and manage your BaaS, RaaS, and DRaaS services
Build a SQL Server that your BaaS, RaaS, and DRaaS services depend on
I purchased this book to learn how the System Center Data Protection Manager works. Then, I followed the instructions of the book along with some Microsoft Knowledge Base articles and setup a test environment without any issues. After a few more testing, we are planning to implement SCDPM as our data protection solution over this summer.The book explains the DPM setup process in delicious recipes and the author Robert Hedblom has done a great job covering all the important ingredients of the topic. It would have made a better "Cookbook" if there were some troubleshooting "recipes" at the end of the book. Hopefully, the author will add this in the next revision.I enjoyed the DPM recipes. Keep cooking.
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Johan ArwidmarkMay 20, 2015
5
Good solid book covering implementations, configurations and usage of DPM 2012 R2. I especially like the step-by-step guidance format and real world tips and tricks provided. Shorthand: Great stuff.
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Olaf SommerMay 22, 2015
5
All you need to know for working with the Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2012 R2 you will find in this book. It starts with explanation of some basics about the software and the infrastructure and explains different methods of the installation. After that you can find how to backup and restore all kind of Microsoft servers like file server, exchange server, sql server and others. Additionally you can read more about chaining two and more Data Protection Manager servers, backup and restore data to and from the azure cloud and much more.The step by step style of the book with screenshots is great and the very useful links for more information.I worked for some years with the DPM 2010 version and the book was very helpful for updating and implementing new features especially with Microsoft Exchange 2013 and Microsoft Hyper-V Failover Cluster Server 2012 R2.
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AdnanJun 17, 2015
4
I bought this books along with other System Center books as i am planning to implement this solution with one of my public sector clients. Currently going through building my test environment by following the tips and tricks provided in this book along with some interesting recipes. So far book has been helpful as the format and layout and the way information has been presented is brilliant.Currently business is using Simpana backup software which has seen good days hopefully with help of this book MS is in the door on the backup and restore solution and Simpana is out. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to either learn the product from scratch or someone who simply wants to brush up on previous skills, best book in the market.
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Jeroen van VlietMay 21, 2015
4
Robert Hedblom does a great job explaining basic and advanced topics regarding Data Protection Manager 2012 R2! What I personally like about the 'Cookbook' style of the book is that every section starts with a description of the topic, followed by step-by-step instructions so you can follow along at home on your testlab. This hands-on experience is invaluable for DPM admins like myself! Following every step-by-step instruction there is a detailed explanation of the topic and additional information. Great book!