Centralized Backup ... aka Jason's Blog
Random thoughts from a Backup-dude … Husband & Father … Christ-follower & Scout-leader … Gamer & former-MSFTie & former-ESG Analyst … now at Veeam
System Center Data Protection Manager
I just finished a very busy week at the SQL Server Users’ Conference (http://www.sqlpass.org/). We started with the first public viewing of an early DPM 2007 “Release Candidate” (yes, you heard right) for around 2000 customers, partners and vendor-folk… where we demonstrated DPM protecting SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008. It was very cool, … Read more
Just because you know how DPM 2006 works … you don’t know DPM 2007. That statement is a little bold, since many folks know both products — but lately, I have heard a surprisingly large number of assumptions from people on how DPM2007 does what it does — or what its capabilities actually will be … Read more
Here is an email that I received from a DPM early adopter which was just too cool not to share. This customer has a distributed-infrastructure, is mid-market sized, and is using DPM 2007 beta 2 to protect Exchange 2007 SP1 beta (partipating in two Microsoft early adopter TAP/RDP programs – in production). Any administrator who has … Read more
From Tech-Ed 2007 last month. Its about an hour long and includes “how does it work” and demo’s for protecting and recovering SQL. Check out the video…(read more)
These last several weeks have been very exciting – starting with the release of Beta 2 for DPM 2007 at Tech-Ed … and am writing this from the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC). When I joined Microsoft two years ago, people would come up and ask either: 1) Why is DPM part of System Center … Read more