Dell PowerVault DP600 - Manual (Page 28)

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What Do You Want to Protect?
To begin planning for DPM deployment, you should first decide which data you want to protect.
DPM 2007 offers protection for the following types of data, which are explained in more detail in
subsequent topics:
• File data, at the level of volumes, folders, and shares, on file servers running Microsoft
Windows Server 2003 or the Windows Server 2008 operating system
• File data on workstations running Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2 and all editions of
the Windows Vista operating system except Home
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 SP2 and Exchange Server 2007 data, at the level of
storage groups
• Microsoft SQL Server 2000 SP4, SQL Server 2005 SP1, and SQL Server 2005 SP2 data, at
the level of databases
• Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, at the level
of farms
• Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 host and guest configurations
• System state
See Also
Application Data
Clustered Resources
File Data on Servers and Workstations
System State
File Data on Servers and Workstations
You can protect volumes that can be accessed through either drive letters or mount points,
folders, and shares.
The simplest approach to selecting data for protection is to select all file data that you include in
your current backups. Alternatively, you can select only specific subsets of your data for
protection.
The principal factor to consider when selecting data is your need to quickly recover point-in-time
copies of the data if data is lost or corrupted. Key candidates for protection are files that change
frequently. Other good candidates are files that are frequently accessed, regardless of how often
they change.