The Recovery Process

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

DPM supports administrator-initiated recovery operations in DPM Administrator Console, and enables end-user recovery operations from client computers. Figure 1.3 shows the process for recovering data in DPM.

Figure 1.3   Process for recovering data in DPM

The recovery process involves the following steps:

  1. The user chooses a previous version of a data source from the shadow copies on the DPM server.

  2. DPM restores a copy of the selected data to its point of origin on the file server or to an alternate destination that the user specifies.