You can use DPM to recover data from any available recovery point. A recovery point, also termed a backup snapshot, is a consistent point-in-time copy of a DPM-protected item, be that a file, folder, database, virtual machine, or an entire computer. The type of data being protected determines your options when it comes to performing recovery. For example, you can recover a SQL Server database to another SQL Server as long as the destination SQL Server has the DPM agent installed. Similarly, you can recover Exchange mailbox databases or Hyper-V virtual machines if they are properly protected to a separate host, as long as the destination host is running the same version of Exchange, SQL, or Hyper-V, and has the DPM agent installed. You also have the option of performing recovery to an alternate location. For example, you might want to only recover a specific file from a protected VM. Rather than restore the entire VM, you can restore the protected file to an accessible file share or local disk.
To recover the contents of protected VM, perform the following steps:
1. In the Recovery workspace of the DPM console, select the item and the recovery point that you wish to restore. Figure 1 shows the selection of the 7.00 AM recovery point of the Live-Hyper-V-VM virtual machine. When you have located the recovery point that you wish to restore, click Recover on the ribbon.
FIGURE 1 Recovery workspace
2. On the Select Recovery Type page of the Select Recovery Wizard, select Copy To A Network Folder. If the DPM server has the Hyper-V role installed, you could perform a recovery directly to another server running Hyper-V.
3. On the Specify Destination page, specify the location of a shared folder that will host the recovered files. The destination location must have the DPM agent installed.
4. On the Specify Recovery Options page, select whether you want to apply the security settings of the destination computer or the security settings of the recovery point. You can also configure bandwidth throttling, SAN recovery, and email notification. Figure 2 shows the Specify Recovery Options page.
FIGURE 2 Specify Recovery Options
5. Complete the wizard by clicking Recover.
