How it works...

When you create a protection group, you can optimize it by doing the following:

• Enabling compression on the protection group
• Offsetting the start time of synchronization jobs across your various protection groups

Launch the Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Administration Console. Go to the Protection task area and select the protection group that you want to optimize. Here, you can enable compression and offset the start time of your synchronization job for that particular protection group. Be aware that the maximum allowed value for the scheduled offset is the same as the synchronization frequency.