Recently I was attempting to use Data Protection Manager 2007 to create a protection group that included volumes directly attached to the DPM server. I was slightly dismayed to see that I couldn’t install the protection agent on the machine or select anything other than the DPM configuration database in the New Protection Group wizard.
The answer, in my case, was to enable local data protection on the DPM server by executing the following command in the Data Protection Manager Console:
1 | Set-DPMGlobalProperty -DPMServerName ServerName.Domain.Local -AllowLocalDataProtection $true |