Summary

This chapter, dedicated to Data Protection Manager 2012, hopefully provided you with a better understanding of the DPM product. Everything from DPM’s background, to planning a deployment, to installing the solution, to basic administration tasks was covered. After reading this chapter, you should now also understand that DPM is an extremely powerful tool that is designed to simplify the backup and recovery of data for Microsoft applications and servers. In doing so, DPM attempts to ensure your data is continuously protected regardless of the organization’s size and complexity. Chapter 11 extends the basic concepts covered in this chapter to specific guidance on backing up Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, and SQL Server.

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