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Prepare data storage. 15 minutes to read. Contributors. In this article A major part of your System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) deployment will be figuring out how to store data backed up by DPM. Learn about:. Short and long-term storage overview In DPM, you'll need to select short and long-term storage for backed up data. Storage Short-term Long-term Characteristics Azure cloud Suitable for short-term storage Suitable for long-term storage - Efficient and cost-effective offsite storage solution for short and long-term storage.
Azure can be used as storage for Hyper-V, SQL Server, and file server data. Azure can only be used to back up data from servers running Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, or Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1. DPM must be running on System Center 2012 SP1 or later to use Azure Backup. Tape Some workloads can be backed up directly to tape (D2T) for short-term storage. These include file data (volumes, shares, folders), system state, SQL Server, Hyper-V, and Exchange databases not configured on a DAG.
All workloads can be backed up to tape for long-term offsite storage (D2D2T) - Short-term backup to tape might be useful for data that doesn't change often and thus doesn't require frequent backup. Long-term offsite tape storage is useful for data, which must be kept in order to fulfill statutory obligations - If you're using tape for both long-term and short-term protection, DPM creates copies of the latest short-term full backup in order to generate the long-term tape backup. We recommend that you schedule the short-term protection backup to run a day before the long-term backup. That way you can be sure you're using the latest short-term backup in order to create the long-term backup. If you're using disk for short-term backup and tape for long-term, the long-term backup will be taken from the disk replica. Data recovery from tape might be slow, and thus better suited to data with a high recovery point objective (RPO) that doesn't need to accessed and recovered within a short critical period after failure. You can't free up or erase a tape that contains valid recovery points.
You'll need to remove the sources from a protection group and expire the recovery points, or modify the protection group settings to clear tape protection. To expiry a tape, you mark it as free and then unmark it and recatalog. Tape backup and recovery might require manual intervention such as tape rotations.
Long-term storage capacity can be increased by adding more tapes. A tape library or standalone tape drive must be physically attached to the DPM server. The tape library can be direct SCSI attached or SAN. Disk All data backed up to DPM can be stored on disk for short-term storage (D2D) No long term storage to disk.
Disks provide a quick method of data backup and recovery. It's useful for data that has a low RPO and thus needs to be recovered quickly after failure. Disks can provide redundancy using disk technologies such as RAID. Maximum disk retention is 448 days. Disk backup has no impact on running workloads. Prepare cloud storage (Azure Backup) You can back up protected DPM data to Azure using the Azure Backup service. This is useful in a couple of scenarios:.
DPM is deployed on-premises as a physical server or virtual machine - If you deploy DPM as a physical server or as an on-premises Hyper-V virtual machine you can back up data with Azure Backup in addition to backing data up to disk and tape. DPM is deployed as a virtual machine in Azure - If DPM is deployed as an Azure virtual machine (possible from System Center 2012 R2 with Update 3) you can back up data to Azure disks attached to the DPM Azure virtual machine and then offload data storage with backup to Azure Backup. When you set up a protection group in DPM, you select disk for short-term storage and then you enable online backup to Azure. Note that:. There are a number of prerequisites and limitations. You'll need to set up Azure Backup before you enable backup to the cloud for a protection group in the DPM console.
How to set up Azure Backup with DPM. Prepare disk storage DPM backs up data to disk for short-term storage by saving data to the DPM storage pool.
The storage pool is the set of disks and volumes on which the DPM server stores the recovery points for the protected data. Before you can store data on disk, you'll need at least one disk or volume in a storage pool. You can use any of the following for the storage pool:. Direct attached storage (DAS). Fiber Channel storage area network (SAN). iSCSI storage device or SAN Best practices for the storage pool Best practice Details Disk limitations - The DPM server needs at least two disks installed.
A dedicated disk for the startup, system, and DPM installation files; and one dedicated to the storage pool. In DPM, a disk is defined as any disk device manifested as a disk in the Windows Disk Management tool. DPM does not add any disks containing startup files, system files, or any component of the DPM installation to the storage pool. Disks added to the storage pool shouldn't have partitions. To prepare disks, DPM reformats the disks and erases any data. The storage pool supports most disk types, including IDE, SATA and SCSI, and the storage pool supports both the master boot record (MBR), and GUID partition table (GPT) partition styles.
Microsoft strongly recommends you use GPT disks. If you use a SAN for the storage pool, Microsoft recommends you create a separate zone for the disk and tape. Don't mix devices in a single zone. DPM doesn't support USB/1394 disks in the storage pool. You can't use Storage Spaces for the disk storage pool. Some original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) include a diagnostic partition installed from media they provide.
The diagnostic partition can also be named the OEM partition, or the EISA partition. EISA partitions must be removed from disks before you can add the disk to the storage pool. You can substitute custom volumes that you define in Disk Management for volumes in the storage pool. We recommend you use extensible hardware so you can add more capacity if you need to. Dedup support DPM running as a Hyper-V virtual machine can store backup data to VHDs in shared folders on a Windows File Server with data deduplication enabled. For more information, see. Capacity requirements Capacity requirements depend primarily on the size of protected data, the daily recovery point size, expected volume data growth rate, and retention range objectives.
Daily recovery point size refers to the total size of changes made to protected data during a single day. It is roughly equivalent to the size of an incremental backup. Retention range refers to the number of days for which you want to store recovery points of protected data on disk. For files, DPM can store a maximum of 64 recovery points for each volume included in a protection group, and it can create a maximum of 8 scheduled recovery points for each protection group each day. Retention range is the number of days you want to store recovery points of protected data on disk.
For files, DPM can store a maximum of 64 recovery points for each volume included in a protection group, and it can create a maximum of 8 scheduled recovery points for each protection group each day. The limit of 64 recovery points for files is a Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) limitation. The recovery point limit doesn't apply to application data. We recommend you make the storage pool twice size of the protected data.
This assumes a daily recovery point size that's 10% of the protected data size and a 10 days retention range. To get a good estimate of size, review an incremental backup for an average day. For example, if the incremental backup for 100 GB of data includes 10 GB of data, your daily recovery point size will probably be around 10 GB. Obviously you'll need to adjust for the 10% and 10 day estimation doesn't work for your organization.
Note that the longer your retention range, the fewer recovery points you can create each day. For example, if your retention range objective is 64 days, you can create just one recovery point each day. If it's 8 days, you can create 8 recovery points each day. With a retention range objective of 10 days, you can create approximately 6 recovery points a day. Disk configuration If you're using direct-attached storage for the storage pool, you can use any hardware-based configuration of redundant array of independent disks (RAID), or you can use a 'just a bunch of disks' (JBOD) configuration. Don't create a software-based RAID configuration on disks that you will add to the storage pool. To decide on disk configuration, consider the relative importance of capacity, cost, reliability, and performance in your environment.
For example, because JBOD doesn't consume disk space for storing parity data, it'll make maximum use of storage capacity. For the same reason, the reliability of JBOD configurations is poor; a single disk failure inevitably results in data loss. For a typical deployment, DPM recommends a RAID 5 configuration, which offers an effective compromise between capacity, cost, reliability, and performance.
To help you evaluate options for configuring the disks in your storage pool, the table below compares the trade-offs between JBOD and the various levels of RAID, on a scale from 4 (very good) to 1 (acceptable). Custom values In some cases you might want to use a custom volume, where a custom volume isn't in the storage pool and is used to store the replica and recovery points for a protection group member. For example, you might want a greater amount of control over storage for specific data sources or critical data needs to be stored using a high-performance LUN on a SAN. Any volume that's attached to the DPM server can be selected as a custom volume, except the volume that contains the system and program files. To use custom volumes for a protection group member, two custom volumes must be available: one volume to store the replica and one volume to store the recovery points. DPM can't manage the space in custom volumes.
If DPM alerts you that a custom replica volume or recovery point volume is running out of space, you'll need to manually change the size of the custom volume by using Disk Management. You can't change the selection of storage pool or custom volume for a protection group member after the group is created.
To do this you'll need to stop protecting the data source and then add it again to a protection group. Compare disk options Disk Disk Configuration Capacity Cost Reliability Performance/scalability JBOD 4 4 1 4 RAID 0 4 4 1 4 RAID 1 1 1 4 3 RAID 5 3 3 3 3 RAID 10 1 1 4 4 Configure the storage pool After you have at least one disk set up in accordance with the prerequisites, you can add it to the storage pool. In DPM Administrator Console, click Management Disks. Click Add on the tool ribbon, and in Add Disks to Storage Pool select the disk you want to add from the Available disks list. After the storage pool is set up, when you create protection groups that include data sources you want to back up, you'll be able to configure disk as short-term storage for that backed up data.
Prepare tape backup. DPM can back up to tape libraries or standalone tape drives. You'll need to attach your tape libraries or standalone tape drives to the DPM server with SAN or SCSI. Tape devices must be compatible with DPM. Get a list of. The tape capacity you need depends on the size of the protected data and the number of tape backup jobs you'll run.
To plan for the number of tapes required for a protection group, multiply the required backup frequency by the retention range. For standalone tape drives, DPM does the following for each protection group:. Appends all short-term backups to a single tape. Appends all long-term backups to a single tape that is different from the short-term backup tape. When a tape fills up, DPM raises an alert to add a new free tape.
For tape libraries:. DPM can allocate two or more tapes for each protection group. All the data sources in a protection group will always append to the same tape for both short-term and long-term protection. If the protection group settings specify the allocation of more than one drive the data sources will be split across tape.
For example, if there are five data sources and a drive with a maximum limit of two sources, DPM might write three data sources on one tape and two on another. This might cause an uneven distribution of data among tapes, depending on the data size, any other scheduled backup tape jobs, and the number of tape drives available at the time.
Long-term backups to tape allocate a tape for each full backup job, so that each long-term backup recovery point is always on a new tape. Available free tapes are decremented as tapes are allocated to long-term or short-term backup. If no new tape is available for a long-term backup an alert is issued.
If short-term backups are configured to use tape and the full backup option is used, each full backup job will require a new free tape. If you trigger two different 'create recovery point (tape)' actions for two protection group members, DPM create two tape backup jobs, and two tapes will be required.
If you trigger a single 'create recovery point (tape)' action for two protection group members, a single tape it used. This ensures that data for selected protection group members is collocated for ad-hoc backups to the same tape. Install and configure tape devices. Attach tape drive - Follow the instructions provided with the tape device to attach and install it on the DPM server. Verify serial numbers - Check that the medium changer and tape drives have serial numbers.
DPM uses these for identification. Installed tape devices are listed in Device Manager.