Microsoft Data Protection Manager Bare Metal Recovery & System State Backup

  2:57 PM    Santosh



Today I am going to show you how to take Bare Metal Recovery & System State Backup with Microsoft Data Protection Manager.
Please check my below two articles for kore information on DPM,
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2010
How to Install Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2010
Installing DPM Agent

So let’s get started I am going to protect my sql.mytricks.in with the new Bare Metal Recovery feature on DPM 2010 & then going to recover it in my next article.
Follow below steps to back up your Server,
1.       Open DPM 2010 Administrative Console,
Now I am going to create new protection group called BMR,


 Select Server tab, as we are going to backup server,
 Now select System State & Bare Metal recovery & drives which you want to backup.
 Give the name for your protection group,
 Specify your short term goal. I am using default.
 Click Next
 I am using default option here,




 Click yes to continue,





Now we have created protection group with Bare Metal & System state backup for our server. In next article I am going to show how to recover your your server using bare metal recovery option.. So stay tune!!