Preparing to back up Azure Stack with DPM

Microsoft Azure Stack is not a traditional monolithic application, and so the topic of data protection with Microsoft Azure Stack is divided into two distinct and separate sets of tasks: infrastructure backup and tenant backup. The approach to each task is quite different. For instance, the infrastructure backup can't initially be backed up by an SCDPM server, so a component of Microsoft Azure Stack, the Backup Resource Provider, carries out this task. Subsequently, the backup repository created by the Backup Resource Provider requires data protection and this is where SCDPM comes in to support the infrastructure backup task.

The Microsoft Azure Stack infrastructure backup, Backup Resource Provider, requires a Server Message Block (SMB) 3.x file share to operate. This SMB 3.x file share must be external to the Microsoft Azure Stack appliance, so here you could leverage an existing SMB 3.x storage solution, such as a Windows file server or a third...