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Creating Protection Groups
• To use DPM Administrator Console, you must be logged on to a DPM server with an account
that has administrative privileges on that server.
Before you can start protecting data, you must create at least one protection group. For
guidelines about protection groups, in Planning a DPM 2007 Deployment, see Planning
Protection Groups (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=91849).
Long-Term Protection
• On a stand-alone tape drive, for a single protection group, DPM uses the same tape for daily
backups until there is insufficient space on the tape. For multiple protection groups, DPM
requires separate tapes. Therefore, we recommend that you minimize the number of
protection groups that you create if you are using a stand-alone tape drive for your backups.
Replica Creation
• We recommend that you chose to manually create the replica when synchronizing large
amounts of data across a slow WAN connection for the first time. For more information about
manual replica creation, in the DPM 2007 Operations Guide, see "Creating Replicas
Manually" in Managing Performance (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=91859).
If you choose manual replica creation, you must know the details of the source (protected
server) and the replica path (DPM server). It is critical that you retain the same directory
structure and properties, such as time stamps and security permissions for the data that you
are protecting.
Subscribing to Alert Notifications
• You can configure System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 to notify you by e-
mail of critical, warning, or informational alerts, and the status of instantiated recoveries.
Before you can subscribe to notifications, you must configure the Simple Mail Transfer
Protocol (SMTP) server that you want DPM to use to send the notifications. For instructions,
see Configuring the SMTP Server .
Co-existing with Other Backup Applications
If you want DPM to co-exist with other backup applications (for example, while you are evaluating
DPM, but still want to continue backups with your existing solution), we recommend that you
adhere to the following guidelines.
DPM 2007 can co-exist with other SQL Server backup applications as long as the other backup
applications perform only full backups. Only one application at a time can perform log backups on
a SQL Server database. Therefore, administrators should ensure that they do full backups only
with other backup applications. Full backups do not impact the log chain in any way, and
therefore DPM backups can continue without any problems.