System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager (DPM) is Microsoft’s data protection and recovery solution. You can use DPM to backup and recover workloads including Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint, Windows server role services and features, and virtual machine running under Hyper-V. DPM supports backup to disk, to take, and to Microsoft Azure.
When discussing DPM, it’s important to understand the following terms:
- A recovery point objective (RPO) is the point in time to which you want to recover data. For example, you might need to recover a database to a specific RPO that represents the state it was in 45 minutes ago.
- A recovery time objective (RTO) is the amount of time you have to recover to the RPO. This is the amount of time it would take to recover the database to the state it was in 45 minutes ago.
