DPM Bare Metal Recovery with System Recovery Tool – Part 1
Posted by Kevin Lim on August 27, 2008
The DPM System Recovery Tool (SRT) is software provided with DPM to facilitate bare metal recovery for the DPM 2007 server and the computers that DPM protects. Microsoft recommend that you install DPM SRT on a separate server from the DPM server. However, if you are protecting a small number of computers, (no more than four or five) you can install DPM 2007 and DPM SRT on the same server.
When you install DPM SRT, you must specify the location for the primary file store, which will contain the DPM SRT Recovery Points. We recommend that you place the primary file store on a disk separate from the disk on which the operating system and DPM SRT are installed. If that is not possible, you can place the primary file store on a separate volume on the same disk.
DPM SRT is not included on the DPM 2007 product DVD. It must be installed separately from the DPM System Recovery tool CD. For more information about installing DPM SRT, see the topics under the “Installation” node in the DPM System Recovery Tool Help (the .chm file) on the DPM SRT CD.
The following screen shots were taken to illustrate the testing which were done in a virtual environment. More info can be found at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb808871(TechNet.10).aspx.
The following screen shows through the SRT Console the systems it found via Active Directory.
A SRT schedule is running.
The following show the properties of the schedule.
The following shows the Disk Layout and System Volumes are protected.
Creation of an SRT boot CD with the wizard
For systems that require special or additional disk or RAID controller, the driver is added in this screen.
Any additional or non-standard network drivers can be added in this window.
Stay tune for DPM Bare Metal Recovery with System Recovery Tool – Part 2!
