How Protection Group Changes Affect Jobs

Applies To: System Center Data Protection Manager 2010

Changes to the configuration of a DPM protection group can result in the cancellation of some active jobs. A change could affect replica jobs, archive jobs, or both. The following table lists the jobs that are canceled in each category.

Job types

Replica jobs	Archive jobs
Replica creation Consistency check Synchronization Create recovery point on disk Recovery from disk	Create recovery point on tape Verification of data on tape Copy data to tape Back up to tape Recovery from tape

The following table lists how protection group changes can cause the cancelation of active jobs. Jobs can be canceled for:

• All members of the protection group ("protection group")

• All data sources on the protected computer ("protected computer")

• All protected computers in the same time zone as the computer hosting the data sources in the protection group that is changed ("time zone")

Protection group changes and active jobs

Change to protection group	Job cancellations
Remove tape-based protection	Archive jobs for the protection group
Add disk-based protection	Archive jobs for the protection group if tape-based protection is configured
Remove disk-based protection	Replica and archive jobs for the protection group
Add or remove data sources	Replica for the protected computer and archive jobs for time zone
Change protected objects, including folder exclusion	Replica and archive jobs for the protected computer and time zone
Change file type exclusion	Replica and archive jobs for the protection group
Delete a protection group	Replica and archive jobs for the protection group
Change the preferred server for clustered Exchange Server data	Replica and archive jobs for the protected computer and time zone
Change protection of a mounted volume to a different mount point	Replica and archive jobs for the protected computer and time zone
Stop protection and delete data on tape	Archive jobs for the time zone
Stop protection and delete data on disk	Replica and archive jobs for the protected computer
Change the tape library that the protection group uses	Archive jobs for the protection group if data verification is enabled
Change the tape data verification selection	Archive jobs for the protection group
Change to number of tape copies	Archive jobs for the protection group
Add or remove tape-based protection	Archive jobs for the protection group
Change data verification setting for tape-based protection	Archive jobs for the protection group
Change data verification setting for disk-based protection	Replica jobs for the protection group
Change compression setting for tape-based protection	Archive jobs for the protection group
Change encryption setting for tape-based protection	Archive jobs for the protection group
Change network bandwidth usage throttling setting for short-term tape-based protection	Archive jobs for the protection group
Change compression, encryption, or network bandwidth usage throttling for disk-based protection	Replica jobs for the protection group

See Also

Concepts

Managing Performance