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Data Protection Manager and time zones

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The question: Is the time of a shadow copy the time on the file server or the DPM server?

The answer: You may have noticed this section in the Operations Guide...

DPM automatically schedules synchronization and shadow copy jobs in the time zone of the file server. In all other areas of DPM Administrator Console, system times are displayed in the time zone of the DPM server. Although you schedule jobs to run in the files server’s time zone, the start times and shadow copy times of the jobs are displayed in the time zone of the DPM server.

Let's look at how that plays out in the console...

Task DPM Server time (Berlin) File server time (Reykjavik) DPM Administrator Console time displayed
Schedule a shadow copy to occur at: 8:00 P.M. 6:00 P.M. 6:00 P.M. (protection group options)
Shadow copy is created at: 8:00 P.M. 6:00 P.M. 8:00 P.M. (monitoring jobs)
Select shadow copy from 6:00 P.M. (Reykjavik) for recovery: 8:00 P.M. (timestamp of shadow copy for recovery)