Want to use DPM?

Make sure that the servers you want to protect (in our case the SharePoint servers and database servers) have the following updates and patches applied to them :

SharePoint

• Windows 2003 SP2
• Hotfix rollup of VSS reliability, scalability, and memory optimization
• Update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (kb 941422)

Database

• Windows 2003 SP2
• Hotfix rollup of VSS reliability, scalability, and memory optimization
• SQL Server 2005 SP2 (if you are running that version)

Also, run the DPM Server on a standalone server because DPM cannot protect itself as it can protect the other servers in your farm.