To create a recovery point manually for your protected data, open your DPM Administrator Console, click on the Protection workspace, and then right-click on the data source and choose Create recovery point...:
You will be prompted with the Create recovery point wizard. Select Online protection from the drop-down menu, and then click on the OK button:
The DPM server will start creating a backup and then transfer it to Azure; you can follow its progress in the Create Recovery Point task window:
