Data in a DFS Namespace

When protecting data in a DFS namespace, you cannot protect file shares through their DFS namespace paths. Instead, DPM can only protect data located in a DFS namespace by using server-specific local paths. This is because DFS is designed to provide location transparency and redundancy by allowing shares in multiple different locations to be logically grouped under one folder. In other words, the data that is located in a DFS namespace is somewhat redundant because if a server fails, a Windows client will transparently select a different server to use and the data is replicated between the different servers that are hosting the data. Therefore, if DPM were DFS aware, and it attempted to protect each target under the same ...

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