HELP!!! Trying to fully understand System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 R2 Short-Term Goals...

Read the technet article.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb870508.aspx

don't forget your long term objectives as well.

You will need a backup capacity of approx 10x your online storage usage. You have to also understand the terms (RPO - recovery point objective) and RTO (recovery time objective) https://www.druva.com/blog/understanding-rpo-and-rto/

In an ideal world we'd like the rpo to be 1 second ago, and the rto to be now.  All of this takes cpu cycles, drive iops and network bandwidth so you have to balance things out within your organisation so we don't get in the way of the company doing business.

One must also understand how much your files change and what are the  critical to business operations areas and which items are not.

Thanks David.  I have already read that article, but not clarifying my original question which is the break down of the explanations of the Retention Range and File Recovery Points.

Can someone clue me in on these two aspects.

I understand the big picture of the RPO, etc...

I am just trying to wrap my head around the definitions/jargon that MS used when creating their SC DPM 2012 R2 product.


Thanks.

OK.  Thanks David.  That makes sense...however I was reading another article that mentions the synchronization isn't truly a Recovery Point, except with file servers and the like.  However, this helps me understand what I am trying to accomplish now.


Thanks again.