Overview of Data Protection Processes

Published : April 8, 2005 | Updated : August 17, 2005

The DPM server provides disk-based, short-term data protection for the volumes, folders, and shares stored on file servers. This section presents a high-level overview of the two most basic processes in DPM — protecting data by backing it up on the DPM server, and recovering previous versions of the protected data from the DPM server. Details of the underlying processing, and the features and components that are involved in the processing, are presented later in this chapter, in “The Basics of Data Protection.”