Administrator Guide

Figure 33. Online Protection enabled

Default backup schedule and retention policy

By default, all infrastructure components are protected by DPM with the following schedule:

Table 17. Backup

Backup Policy for: Target Backup Frequency Retention

Infrastructure VMs

Disk

Azure Backup—if opted in

Disk: Once per week; Saturday 8pm

Azure: Once per week; Sunday 8pm

Disk: 14 days

Azure: 4 weeks

Infrastructure databases

Disk

Azure Backup—if opted in

Disk: Every 4 hours

Azure: Daily—10:00 PM

Disk: 5 days

Azure: 10 days

NOTE: While these are the default settings, we recommend that you use the DPM Create Recovery Point Now option to back up

a VM’s databases before and after you make any conguration change.

By default, after you add a tenant VM to a protection group, tenant VMs are protected with the following schedule:

Table 18. Tenant VM backup schedule

Target Backup Frequency Retention

Disk Daily—10:00 PM 7 days

Azure Backup—if opted in Daily—6:00 AM 20 days

You can change the day of backup or time of day if you need to. If you change the schedule, make sure that you at least maintain the

following backup frequency:

• For infrastructure VMs: Once a week backup with a two-week retention period

• For databases: Once every four hours backup with a ve-day retention period

NOTE

: Dell recommends that you do not change the number of recovery points because this impacts storage calculations.

DPM does not back up the DPM database. Instead, the DPM database is backed up through the Windows DPMDBBackup Task Scheduler

job. The backup frequency is every 4 hours, and retention period is one day. The following table includes information about the DPM server

database:

Operations