Microsoft DPM 2010 BETA – Data Protection Manager, Bigger, Better.. (More complicated?).

SimonPhillips — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:19:27 +0000

Microsoft have released DPM 2010 BETA. DPM is an amazingly powerful CDP (Continuous Data Protection) product and is already pretty good in its current guise of DPM 2007 (DPM v2.0). Some pretty interesting features are showing up, see the list of new bits below:

Active Directory:
Active Directory will now appear in DPM as a resource available for protection.

Exchange Server:
Support for Exchange 2010
Better support for mailbox level restores (Brick level – previously needed a third party app for this)

Hyper-V:
File level backup and restore of files within guests (Back up the files in a VM thats backed up)
Recover to other Hyper-v nodes
Support of Live Migration clusters

SQL:
Backup full SQL instances
Autodiscover of DBs within these instances (Great if you ad a DB and dont config it to backup, gets done for you)

SharePoint:
Support of new versions of Sharepoint and Office Server (Not sure what yet)
Autodiscovery of new content DBs on certain

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Microsoft DPM 2010 BETA – Data Protection Manager, Bigger, Better.. (More complicated?).