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Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM)

Score7.9 out of 10

16 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM)?

System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) is an enterprise backup and recovery system that contributes to BCDR strategy by facilitating the backup and recovery of enterprise data.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 16 ratings of Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM)'s features
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Top Performing Features

  • Deduplication and file compression

    Integrated deduplication and compression capabilities

    Category average: 8.3

  • Universal recovery

    Universal recovery is the ability to restore backups to any machine regardless of the platform

    Category average: 9

  • Instant recovery

    Instant recovery is the ability to restore operations very rapidly

    Category average: 8.4

Areas for Improvement

  • Flexible deployment

    Deployment on any servers with full support for all applications being used

    Category average: 8.5

  • Encryption

    Data encryption to ensure that data is safe while being backed-up

    Category average: 9.4

  • Retention options

    Provision of best-practice and customizable retention policies with reporting

    Category average: 9.1

Reviews

What users are saying about Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM).
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DPM in a nutshell.

Incentivized
Alan Sidles
President in Information Technology at WebDesk Inc (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • Hyper-V backup /restore
  • Bare-Metal backup/restore
  • Good management console

Cons

  • Remote and non-domain backups could be simplified.

Return on Investment

  • It has saved us on licensing costs and through centralized management.

Alternatives Considered

Veeam Backup & Replication and Veritas Backup Exec

Other Software Used

StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA)

DPM for Windows environment

Incentivized
Verified User
Professional in Information Technology (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

DPM is used by our company as a primary backup solution for virtual machines, bare metal backups, file shares and some SQL databases. We have used it for more than 4 years for short-term backups. We got it as a part of Microsoft System Center Suite.

Pros

  • Clustered Hyper-V VM backup and restore.
  • Easy to have multiple restore points.
  • Can back up different workloads with the same solution.

Cons

  • Allow long-term backups to disks.
  • GUI could have improved performance.

Most Important Features

  • Short-term backup and restore.
  • Possible to have several restore points in the same day.
  • All backups managed in a single place.

Return on Investment

  • Same-day service restore when some SQL databases were corrupted.

Alternatives Considered

Veeam Backup & Replication

Microsoft Data Protection Manager: Microsoft Only?

Incentivized
Verified User
Technician in Information Technology (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Virtual machine backup
  • Point in time recovery
  • Shadow copy backup

Cons

  • Integration with some devices
  • Web client
  • Slow interface

Return on Investment

  • Reduced recovery time
  • Fast backup
  • Complete interface

Alternatives Considered

Data Protector (formerly HP Data Protector)

Other Software Used

pfSense, Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series, Palo Alto Panorama, Ubiquiti Networks UniFi, Microsoft BI, Citrix NetScaler Access Gateway, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Cognito, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Relational Database Service, Amazon Route 53, Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Amazon Simple Email Service, Amazon Web Services, MS SharePoint