Ok maybe this has already been answered but I am not finding anything on this and maybe I am just searching for the wrong things. But we are using DPM 2012 R2 with CU5 installed to take backups of our server 2008 R2 and 2012 R2 servers. We have also decided to go with Windows Azure for offsite backups. The Questions I have is this. Now when my backups are created with DPM 2012 r2 I believe what it is doing when running the create recovery point job that it is putting a local backup on our SAN where I have DPM pointed to for the local backup and then from their is uploading the files to AZURE as the jobs finish the local copy? If this is true then when I go to recover a file in DPM why can I not choose to recover from a local disk copy and it defaults to the online copy? It would make my restores go so much fast if it would give me a choice to restore from the local copy VS the online copy. Did I just miss something maybe? I have DPM setup to keep local backups for 14 days. and the cloud backups longer.

Thank you for any advice or assistance in advance :)

Hi,

The default may display the online recovery point, but if you use the drop down you can select the one from disk which is the DPM replica disk.

Perfect that is exactly what I was looking for. I am sure it was in my reading on it and I missed it or over looked it. Thank you again that saves me a lot of time :).