questions on data protection manager 2019 best practices.

Question

I'm looking for best practices on setting up DPM 2019. We are new to DPM and we having it working but seems to be using way more disk space than necessary. We currently have it taking express full backups daily and recovery points every 15 minutes. Should we be taking the full backups just say weekly and then the recovery points? What is the general way everyone is setting it up? Is there a forum or group specifically for this?

Answer 1

Hi,

Thanks for posting on our forum!

Firstly, best practices on setting up DPM 2019 depend on which kind of environment your DPM server are in and how do you want to deploy your DPM server. If you think more disk space is used in your configuration, then just clear up some checkpoints that you do not need, or lower down the backup frequency as you said. Here is an article for you to better understand the environments for DPM server:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center/dpm/prepare-environment-for-dpm?view=sc-dpm-2019#storage-recommendations-for-dpm

You can also gain more information about backup of DPM:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center/dpm/back-up-the-dpm-server?view=sc-dpm-2019

Finally, you can discuss your question in our DPM community:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/system-center/bd-p/SystemCenter

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Joan

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