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System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) is a software product from Microsoft that provides near-continuous data protection and data recovery in a Microsoft Windows environment. It is part of the Microsoft System Center family of products and is Microsoft's first entry into the near-continuous backup and data recovery. It uses Shadow Copy technology for continuous backups.

Data Protection Manager delivers centralized backup of branch offices and within the data center, by near-continuously protecting changed files at the byte-level to a secondary disk, which can then be backed up to tape. This also enables rapid and reliable recovery from an easily accessible disk instead of waiting to locate and mount tapes.

Data Protection Manager 2006 was released on September 27, 2005 at Storage Decisions in New York.^[1][2] The current version, Data Protection Manager 2019, supports protection of Windows file servers, Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, SharePoint and Microsoft Virtual Server. It features bare-metal restore.

DPM offers support for a variety of Microsoft Workloads. Support varies between versions, with old operating systems being removed from new versions.

• Microsoft Servers
• Microsoft System Center

• Ganger, Devin; Ryan Femling (4 March 2008). Mastering System Center Data Protection Manager 2008. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-18152-2.
• Buchanan, Steve (23 May 2011). Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2010. Packt. ISBN 978-1-84968-202-2.
• Buffington, Jason (2 August 2010). Data Protection for Virtual Data Centers. Wiley. ISBN 978-0-470-57214-6.
• Robert, Hedblom; Steve Buchanan; Islam Gomaa; Flemming Riis (2013). Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2012. Packt. ISBN 978-1-849-68630-3.

• Official website
• Data Protection Manager blog
• All Backed Up – DPM product manager's blog
• DPM Version and Service Pack Information (only updated to DPM2010)
• Data Protect Manager on Microsoft TechNet