An example showing how to create a new protection group in System Center Data Protection Manager 2016. From the cmdlets help: "The New-DPMProtectionGroup cmdlet creates a protection group on a System Center 2016 - Data Protection Manager (DPM) server. This is the first step to create a protection group. This cmdlet returns a new protection group…

New-DPMProtectionGroup.ps1

# Create the protection group object (the actual protection group will not be created until all necessary properties is specifed)
$PG = New-DPMProtectionGroup -Name '30 days - Application Servers'

# Select what DPM agent to protect
$server = Get-DPMProductionServer | Where-Object -Property MachineName -Value SRV01 -EQ

# Select data source from the specified DPM agent
$DataSource = Get-DPMDatasource -ProductionServer $server | Where-Object Name -eq 'E:\' | Get-DPMChildDatasource -Inquire | 
Where-Object Name -eq 'IBM'| Get-DPMChildDatasource -Inquire | Where-Object Name -eq 'WebSphere' |
Get-DPMChildDatasource -Inquire | Where-Object Name -eq 'profiles' 

# Add specified data source to the protection group
Add-DPMChildDatasource -ProtectionGroup $PG -ChildDatasource $DataSource

# Specify protection type
Set-DPMProtectionType -ProtectionGroup $PG -ShortTerm Disk

# Specify replica creation method ("Now" or "Later")
Set-DPMReplicaCreationMethod -ProtectionGroup $PG -Later (Get-Date).AddHours(3)

# Specify retention settings
Set-DPMPolicyObjective -ProtectionGroup $PG -RetentionRangeDays 30 -SynchronizationFrequencyMinutes 120

# Configure disk allocation
$DataSourceVolume = Get-DPMDatasource -ProductionServer $server | Where-Object Name -eq 'E:\' 
Get-DatasourceDiskAllocation -Datasource $DataSourceVolume
Set-DPMDatasourceDiskAllocation -ProtectionGroup $PG -Datasource $DataSourceVolume -PassThru

# Create the protection group
Set-DPMProtectionGroup -ProtectionGroup $PG

# Verify that the protection group was created. At this point it should also be visible in the DPM Administration Console.
Get-DPMProtectionGroup