Performing Item-Level Recovery on Virtual Machines
With DPM 2007, you could protect both a Hyper-V host and its guests by performing a host-level backup. However, when it came to meeting more granular data protection needs, administrators had to resort to installing the protection agent directly on a virtual machine. In some cases, like protecting Exchange data, installing the protection agent directly on a virtual machine made sense. But, when it came to just protecting files, folders, volumes, and so forth, many administrators wished that just a host-level backup would suffice.
In DPM 2012, you can now perform host-level backups and then from those backups, perform item-level recovery (ILR) for things such as files, folders, volumes, and VHDs. ...
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