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Customizing Recovery Goals for Long-Term
Protection
When you specify a retention range and backup frequency, DPM generates a schedule of backup
jobs. (For more information, see Recovery Point Schedules for Long-Term Protection .) You can
also customize the schedule of backup jobs for your recovery goals, to replace the default
schedule.
When you customize the schedule of backup jobs for a protection group, you specify a recovery
goal for each backup interval. Your interval choices for backup frequency are as follows:
• Daily
• Weekly
• Monthly
• Yearly
You can specify a recovery goal for up to three backup frequency intervals. For each backup
frequency interval, you specify the retention range for the tape, the number of copies of the tape
that should be made, and the tape label.
For example, by customizing the recovery goals for a protection group, you could configure
backups to occur according to the following schedule:
• One copy of weekly backups, retained for two weeks
• Two copies of monthly backups, retained for six months
• One copy of the yearly backup, retained for five years
See Also
Planning Protection Configurations
Allocating Space for Protection Groups
When you create a protection group and select disk-based protection, you must allocate space on
the storage pool for the replicas and recovery points for each data source that you have selected
for membership in the group, and you must allocate space on protected file servers or
workstations for the change journal.
DPM provides default space allocations for the members of the protection group. The following
table shows how DPM calculates the default allocations.
How DPM Calculates Default Space Allocations