Your company has a private cloud that is managed by using a System Center 2012 infrastructure.
You install the servers shown in the following table.
The company’s compliance department identifies the following tasks that must be performed:
* Back up individual files from VM1.
* Back up configuration settings of VM1.
* Restore the configuration settings of VM1.
* Restore individual files from VM1 to an alternate location.
The compliance department administrators recommend installing the DPM agent on Server1, and then performing a full backup.
You need to identify which task is NOT met by the recommended solution.
Which task should you identify?
A.
Resotre individual files from VM1 to an alternate location.
B.
Restore the configuration settings of VM1.
C.
Back up the configuration settings of VM1.
D.
Back up individual files from VM1.
Explanation:
In the event of disaster recovery, System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2010 allows you to recover virtual machines as files to a network folder. You can then copy those files to an alternate Hyper-V host server. However, to start a virtual machine on an alternate Hyper-V host server, you have to manually create and configure the virtual machine using the recovered files.DPM 2010 supports alternate location recovery (ALR), which allows you to recover a Hyper-V virtual machine to an alternate stand-alone Hyper-V host or to a cluster. The recovered virtual machine is already registered and configured on an alternate Hyper-V host server.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff634209.aspx
In a virtualized environment the issue is whether to backup from inside the guest or from the host. The latter provides bare metal restore of an entire VM where somethings gone catastrophically wrong with a VM (or the host) but in general it doesnt provide granular restore of files / folders. DPM 2010 added Item Level Restore (ILR), allowing you to restore individual files or folders within a VM even though it had only been backed up from the host. But this capability was only available when DPM 2010 ran on physical hardware, if the DPM server itself was in a VM this capability was not available. DPM 2012 fixes this glitch and can now do ILR even when the DPM server is a VM.
http://4sysops.com/archives/dpm-2012-part-3-other-improvements/