Planning Protection Configurations

Applies To: System Center Data Protection Manager 2010

After you identify the data sources that you need to protect and determine your recovery goals, your next step is to analyze the information that you gathered so that you can organize the data sources into protection groups.

A protection group is a collection of data sources that share the same protection configuration. The protection configuration consists of the protection group name, and settings for disk allocations, replica creation method, and on-the-wire compression.

To plan a protection group, you must make the following decisions:

  • Which data sources will belong to the protection group?

  • Which protection method (disk-based, tape-based, or both) will you use for the protection group?

  • What are your recovery goals for the members of the protection group?

  • How much storage space will be needed to protect the selected data?

  • Which tape and library should be used?

  • What method will you use to create the replica for the members of the protection group?

The topics in this section provide guidelines for making the decisions involved in creating a protection group.

In This Section

Selecting Protection Group Members

Selecting a Data Protection Method

Defining Recovery Goals

Allocating Space for Protection Groups

Specifying Tape and Library Details

Choosing a Replica Creation Method

See Also

Concepts

What Are Your Goals for Recovery?
What Do You Want to Protect?