I need to temporarily disable some scheduled backups of Hyper-V server images. The only option I see is "Stop protection of member" which seems to delete the backup job. How do you disable a backup job without deleting it?
Running System Center 2012 DPM SP1
You can safely stop protection of member, specifying Retain data on the wizard. This will effectively stop the schedule but keep the existing data. When you want to re-schedule backups, you must re-create the protection group, so be sure to note down the configuration (frequency, type, ...) before stopping protection. DPM will automatically realize that there exists previous backup data for the datasource and use this as a starting point.
Note that backups will not be available while the protection group does not exist, as in fact you are not pausing the backups but stopping + starting.
It is easier to understand if you think in DPM as a replication software more than a backup system.