Ivo Pekař

ELBACOM CZ
i.pekar@elbacom.com
Agenda
 Statistics & Customer Pains that Microsoft is focused on

 Introduction to DPM

 How DPM protects applications

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Backup/Restore remains the single most costly IT
administrative task.

The cost of managing data protection and storage is

5x - 7x the cost of purchasing the hardware. More
specifically, 74% of storage costs are for management
and administration,
administration with only 12% going to hardware.
– Gartner

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97% of all tape restores are single files
– Strategic Research

85% of tape restores are for data less than 30

days
– IDC

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Tape Restores fail
41% - according to Yankee Group
66% - according to Strategic Research
70% - according to Promise

Due to a variety of reasons, including unreadable tape,

corrupted indexes, mechanical issues with tape
changer, unable to locate tape, etc.

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Customer Data Protection Pain
Points Every office is backing itself up – with non-IT staff
 WAN not feasible to sustain centralized backups
 Branch offices must back up themselves using non-
technical staff and non-scalable and less mature
equipment
“Distributed
backups are
 Corporate IT must remotely administer and monitor
###’s of independent branch backup jobs
painful”
 Shrinking Backup Window

Recovery is unreliable and painful

 Finding and recovering data from tapes is slow – hours to
days
 Typical recovery takes hours or days
“Backups are hard.  42% of companies had a failed recovery in past year
Recoveries are worse”  Enterprise backups can fail due to the size of the data

Costs are too high

 Too many hours of labor spent on backup and recovery
 Too many tapes, hardware purchases
 Massive data growth increases costs All recoveries are done
“70% of my by IT administrators
backup
costs are labor”
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What does DPM do?
 Agent on production servers capturing byte-
level changes as they occur

 Near continuous (hourly) protection of files

 Multiple scheduled snapshots per day

 Easy IT or End-User restore – fast from disk

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Solutions With DPM
Disk to Disk … to Tape

Active
Directory

Clients

Active Directory
Scheduled auto-discovery job
Queries AD for new servers
Maintains ACL’s
Redirects shadow copies

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Solutions With DPM
Disk to Disk … to Tape

Active
Directory

Clients File Servers

Agents
 Protects Win2000, 2003, WSS2003, SBS2003 – including R2 editions
 Agents track / synchronize data from production servers to DPM
 All agent communication initiated from DPM
 Each protected volume has sync log (10% of volume size)
 Agent overhead 3-5%
 Deployed via DPM UI

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Solutions With DPM
Disk to Disk … to Tape

Active
Directory

Clients File Servers DPM Servers

DPM Server
Windows Server 2003 or Storage Server
AD, SQL, Reporting Services
Lots of disks (1.3X)
Virtual Disk Service
Installed parallel to tape

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Solutions With DPM
Disk to Disk … to Tape

Snapshots

Active
Directory

Clients File Servers DPM Servers

Snapshots
Snapshots created for quick recovery
Multiple, schedule driven point-in-time copies
User-friendly, wizard driven set up and restore

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Solutions With DPM
Disk to Disk … to Tape

Snapshots

Active
Directory

Clients File Servers DPM Servers Tape Library

Customer Scenarios
Fast Restoration from Disk
End User Recovery (via DPM client)
IT Admin can restore entire servers, volumes, shares

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DEMONSTRATION

1. File Server Protection

2. End User Restoration
 DPM Walkthru

Task : Configure Protection

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 DPM Walkthru

Task : End-User Restore

from Windows Explorer

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Original Files

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Overwritten

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Right-click on any
file or directory

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 PVC
Previous Versions Client
is an applet that
extends Windows
Explorer and Office
applications with
this simple new tab.

Available since
Windows Server 2003
and VSS.

Usually installed silently

via
Group Policy

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 Open
document

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Keep the new one
AND
Restore the old one

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Restore the old one

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WAN Support

 Easy bandwidth wizard

 On-the-wire Compression

 QOS usable

 IPsec capable

Microsoft NDA only 59

Common Customer
Characteristics
DPM is a solution for customers of all sizes but the ideal customers
are:

Enterprises with lots of branch offices

Many distributed branch office file servers
Few or no dedicated IT staff in the branch
Likely to currently use existing tape infrastructure
High backup costs

Medium-sized data centers

5 - 99 servers
Significant backup window issues
Frequent file recoveries from tape
Few IT staff
Familiarity with VSS and SCSF
Have a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of approximately one hour
Have a faster Recovery Time Objective (RTO) than tape can provide

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Implementation Scenarios
Branch office data protection
Backup process
 Agent deployed to branch
office servers
 Agent captures data and
replicates to DPM server in
Clients HQ
New York  DPM takes snapshots to
DPM Server enable recovery at
multiple points in time

Corporate
WAN Benefits
 Rapid & reliable recovery
Clients including end user
Chicago Headquarters recovery
 Less potential data loss
 Easy and efficient
scheduling and
management
 No trained staff needed
in branch
Clients Los Angeles  Reduce tape equipment
requirements in the branch
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Completing the D2D2T scenario

Snapshots

Active
Directory

File Servers DPM Tape Library

Clients Servers

Allows for restore of DPM server itself (system state, replicas)

Enables restore of any file object on production servers from tape
Provides ISV’s ability to control this process through their software applications
Solutions available: Yosemite, Veritas, CommVault, Windows Backup

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 DPM Protection Options
DPM v1 DPM v1-SP1 DPM v2

Protect File Servers & Shares YES YES YES

Protect Exchange YES YES YES
KB 909644 KB 909644 Native DPM

Protect SQL Server YES YES YES

KB 910401 KB 910401 Native DPM

Protect SharePoint YES YES YES

KB 915181 KB 915181 Native DPM

Protect System State YES YES YES

TechNet TechNet Native DPM

Protect R2 SIS Servers YES YES YES

QFE hotfix

Protect x64 Windows -- YES YES

Protect Clusters -- YES YES

??? What else ??? -- -- ???

Beta Q2-06 Beta H2-06

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KB Support of DPM with
Applications

For any hot dB

Use native tools to back
up to flat file (e.g. BKF)

Protect the file with DPM

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Top 10 Reasons To Deploy
DPM
Recover files in minutes instead of hours
 Eliminate the backup window of your production servers
 Shrink potential data loss down to 1 hour
 No more failed recoveries
 Get easy instant backup verification
 Enable end users to perform their own recoveries
 Setup and protect your file servers in minutes
 Advanced functionality at low cost
 Rich out-of-box reporting and monitoring functionality
 Remove tapes from branch offices and centralize
backups at datacenter

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Industry Partners
Hardware

Software

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Resources/Tools for DPM
 Data Protection Manager -- Website
www.microsoft.com/DPM

 Data Protection Manager -- Blog

blogs.technet.com/DPM

 email
dpmINFO@microsoft.com – General DPM inquiries

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What about R2 and DFS?

Doesn’t it do the same thing?

DPM & Windows Server
2003 R2
for the branch office
DPM = Backup & Restore (2000, 2003, and R2)
Centralized Backup of branch offices
Disk-based backup of recent data (7-30 days)
prior to tape solution from ISV
Fast restore from disk – by IT or End-User
Separate purchased product

DFS = Availability of Files (R2 only)

Near current redundant copy available
Transparent redirection / failover to alternate copy
Part of Windows Server 2003 R2

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DPM & Windows Server
2003 R2
for the branch office
DPM Data Protection Manager
Agent on file server, captures “whatever application writes”
(bytes or whole-file) in real-time - Even open files protected.
Journals changes to file. Up to hourly transmits to DPM server
Periodic snapshots
End-User and IT restore
Low CPU / Uses disk-journal

DFS Replication & Namespaces

Replicate (every 15 min) between copies of files
RDC comparison algorithm actively compares changes within and
between files to minimize bytes transferred over WAN
Failover to alternate copy via DFS Namespaces
Higher CPU for comparison logic

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DPM & Windows Server 2003
R2
for
 Ifthe branch
client office
wants high availability/failover of branch office file servers,
we recommend Windows Server 2003 R2.
 For centralized backup and fast recovery of branch office files with
multiple recovery points, we recommend DPM.
 For both high availability/failover and centralized backup capabilities,
recommend both Windows Server 2003 R2 and DPM.

Key Differentiators
DFS Replication in R2
Delivery In Windows OS
Primary Solution Availability of File Shares
Platform Support Windows Server R2 only
Data Frequency Every 15 minutes
Data Granularity Byte-level differences
Data Protection Manager
Application
Centralized Backup & Fast
Restore
Windows 2000, 2003 and R2
Up to Hourly - plus past
iterations
Whatever application writes
(bytes or whole file)
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Data Protection Manager for Embedded
Systems Software Architecture (OS sold separately)

SC Data Protection Manager 2006 OEM Proprietary 3rd Party Applications

Disk based backup and recovery software applicationSoftware Anti-virus, SNMP,
Embedded Application etc…
Windows Server 2003 R2 for Embedded Systems OR Windows Storage Server 2003 R2
Contains complete OS in support of OEM Solution.

OEM Microsoft 3rd Party

Key takeaway: DPM is a near-continuous backup application that

runs over either Windows Sever 2003 for Embedded Systems
SKUs or certain Windows Storage Server 2003 SKUs.

Licensable SKU: Microsoft® SC Data Protection Manager 2006

for Embedded Systems (3 DPML Version)

Additional server agent licenses available

 © 2003-2004 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
This presentation is for informational purposes only. Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied, in this summary.

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