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Tape-Based Protection Process

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Applies To: System Center Data Protection Manager 2007

Tape-based protection is new in DPM 2007.

When you use short-term, disk-based protection and long-term, tape-based protection, DPM can back up data from the replica in the storage pool to tape so that there is no impact on the protected computer. The archives that are created from the replica combine full and incremental backups.

Note

If a file was open when the replica was last synchronized, the backup of that file from the replica will be in a crash consistent state. A crash consistent state of the file contains all data of the file that was persisted to disk at the time of the last synchronization. This applies only to file data backups. Application backups are always consistent with the application state.

For specific backup types and schedules, see "Planning Protection Groups" (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=91849).

Note

You can also use DPM to back up data directly from the protected computer to tape if you do not want to use disk-based protection.