System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) is a software product from

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that provides near-

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and

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in a

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environment. It is part of the

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family of products and is Microsoft's first entry into the near-continuous backup and data recovery. It uses

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technology for continuous backups.

Overview

Data Protection Manager delivers centralized backup of branch offices and within the data center, by near-continuously protecting changed files at the

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-level to a secondary disk, which can then be backed up to tape. This also enables rapid and reliable recovery from an easily accessible disk instead of waiting to locate and mount tapes. Data Protection Manager 2006 was released on September 27, 2005 at

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in New York. The current version, Data Protection Manager 2019, supports protection of Windows

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and

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. It features

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Supported workloads

DPM offers support for a variety of Microsoft Workloads. Support varies between versions, with old operating systems being removed from new versions.

References

External links

*
Data Protection Manager blogAll Backed Up
– DPM product manager's blog

(only updated to DPM2010)
Data Protect Manager
on ''

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Overview

Supported workloads

See also

References

Further reading

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