This is an archive version of the document. To get the most up-to-date information, see the current version.Creating Protection Groups
You must add computers that you plan to protect with Veeam Agents to the inventory in the Veeam Backup & Replication console. In Veeam Backup & Replication, protected computers are organized into protection groups. You can create one or more protection groups that contain computers of different types or offer different discovery and deployment options.
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If you do not want to create protection groups, for example, if you plan to manage only a small number of computers in your infrastructure, you can add the necessary computers directly to a Veeam Agent backup job. Veeam Backup & Replication will automatically add such computers to the Manually Added protection group. To learn more, see Adding Computers to Backup Job and Protection Groups. |
Before creating protection groups, check prerequisites. Then use the New Protection Group wizard to configure a protection group.
- Launch the New Protection Group wizard.
- Specify protection group name and description.
- Select protection group type.
- Specify protection scope for the protection group.
- Exclude objects from the protection group.
- Specify credentials.
- Specify discovery and deployment options.
- Specify advanced protection group settings.
- Review components.
- Assess results.
- Finish working with the wizard.
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