Azure Dpm Requirements

[AZURE. NOTE] Starting with System Center 2012 DPM with SP1, you can back up DPM-protected workloads to Azure using Microsoft Azure Backup. After you save the file at an elevated command prompt on the installation server, type start /wait [media location]setup.exe /i /f DPMSetup.ini /l dpmlog.txt. Configure firewall rules so that the DPM server can communicate with the SQL Server computer: We recommend that you use a single dedicated domain user account to run SQL Server services, SQL Server Agent, SQL Server Database Engine, and SQL Server Reporting Services. All DPM servers that use a shared library must use a similar SQL Server configuration to host DPM databases. For example, they must all use a local instance of the DPM database or all use a remote instance. It is not possible for some DPM servers to use a local instance and others to use a remote instance. Install the DPM (SQLPrep) support files. To do this, insert the DPM DVD on the SQL Server computer and start Setup.exe.

Follow the instructions in the wizard to install Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 Redistributable. DPM support files are installed automatically. On the Instance Configuration tab, specify the name of the SQL Server instance that you want to use for DPM. Do not use underscores or characters located in the name. Under Disk Space Requirements, see the information. The backup agent (also known as the Microsoft Azure Recovery Service (MARS) agent must be installed on each computer backed up by Azure Backup. Install the agent on the DPM server as follows: To obtain the credentials, download the vault credential file from the Azure portal through a secure channel: If an error occurs with invalid vault credentials (for example, “Invalid vault credentials provided”), the file is corrupted or does not have the latest credentials associated with the recovery. cd:Program FilesMicrosoft System Center 2012 R2DPMDPMSetup On the WELCOME page of DPM Setup, click Next. On the License Terms page, accept the > OK agreement. Yes, it is recommended that you configure the antivirus exclusion.

For more information about exclusions for DPM, see Running Antivirus Software on the DPM Server. For more information about exclusions for MABS, see Configuring Antivirus for MABS Servers. When you create a protection group with online protection or add online protection to an existing protection group, the following screen appears. To select First online replication method, select Transfer to my own disk, and then select Next. Monitor the task to create online replicas in the monitoring area. The job should complete successfully with the Wait for Azure import job to complete warning. In the Encryption Settings screen, you can generate a passphrase or specify a passphrase (at least 16 characters). Remember to store the passphrase in a safe place. Disk: For short-term storage, DPM backs up data to disk pools. There are a number of prerequisites and limitations. Learn more. Verify that the vault credential file is available in a location that the setup application can access.

If access-related errors occur, copy the vault credential file to a temporary location on this machine and try again. Download the vault credential file to a local computer as follows: As a physical stand-alone server – You can deploy DPM as a physical stand-alone server to back up local data. Physical DPM servers cannot be deployed in a cluster, but you can manage multiple physical servers from a single console by installing the central console in System Center Operations Manager. [AZURE. WARNING] If the passphrase is lost or forgotten; Microsoft cannot help restore backup data. The end user has the encryption passphrase, and Microsoft has no idea what passphrase the end user is using. Please save the file in a safe place as this is necessary during a recovery process. If you trigger two different actions to create a restore point (tape) for two members of the protection group, DPM creates two tape backup jobs and two tapes are required. If you trigger a single Create Restore Point (Tape) action for two members of the protection group, only one tape is used.

This ensures that the data of the selected protection group members is merged on the same tape for ad hoc backups. It may take some time to create the Recovery Services vault. Monitor status notifications in the Notifications pane in the upper-right corner of the portal. After your vault is created, it appears in the list of Recovery Services vaults. If you don`t see your vault, select Update. Verify that TCP/IP is enabled with default error monitoring and enable password policy validation. Yes. However, you must first configure DPM and then install the Azure Backup agent. Installing components in this order ensures that the Azure Backup agent works with DPM. Installing the agent before installing DPM is not recommended or supported. Prepare Azure Backup to back up DPM data as follows: If you are protecting a Hyper-V cluster with scale-out DPM protection, you cannot add secondary protection for protected Hyper-V workloads. DPM does not support protecting SQL Server databases hosted on Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV).

Long-term tape backups assign tape to each full backup job, so that each long-term backup restore point is always on a new tape.