Procedure for Protection Group Creation

DPM Protection is based in the Protection Group.The protection group defines retention range, how often synchronization will occur, how many recovery points will be available, where the protection will be kept, etc.

1.Open the Data Protection Manager 2007 Console.
2.Click on the Protection task area.
3.In Toolbox Actions, click on Create Protection Group:
4.Welcome to the New Protection Group Wizard page;select the computers which DPM is going to protect. click on Next.
5.In the Select Group Member page, we can see all the servers that have been installed with the DPM Agent.
6.We are going to Protect the Exchange Serevr.First of all we will see which ststorage group need to be protected.Select the appropriate Storage Group.
7.We can exclude the files and folder also for this storage group.
8.In the Select Data Protection Method page we can define the Protection Group name and we can define which method we are going to use in this protection group: Disk (short-term protection), Tape (long-term protection) or both.We will select Disk as tape is not attached to the server.
9.In the Short-Term Goals page, we have to define the Disk Based protection plan for the data and servers already selected. The options that we can define are how many days of retention, synchronization frequency and how often a recovery point will be created.
10.Review Disk Allocation page. We can define space for Replica and Recovery Volumes. We can click on the Modify button to change the volume sizes; DPM uses the current volume information of the protected server to calculate the proper size.
11.In the Choose Replica Creation Method page we can define how and when the initial replica of the selected data will be created.
12.In Summary page a list with all the defined settings will be shown in this page.
13.Status page showing the tasks performed to create the Protection Group will appear, just click on Close.