Editing Protection Group Settings

You can edit settings of a protection group. This may be required, for example, if you want to do either of the following:

Add objects — individual computers or cloud machines — to a protection group.
Remove objects — individual computers or cloud machines — from a protection group.
Change protected objects discovery settings.
Change Veeam Agent deployment settings.

NOTE

Consider the following:

You cannot change the type of a protection group when editing protection group settings.

For the Manually Added protection group, you can change only a limited number of settings. In particular, you can edit protected computers discovery and Veeam Agent deployment options (except for changing the distribution server for the protection group). You can also remove from this protection group computers that are no longer included in a Veeam Agent backup job.

You cannot edit settings of default protection groups that act as filters used to display protected computers of a specific type: Unmanaged, Out of Date, Offline and Untrusted.

To add or remove objects or edit protection group settings, do the following:

Launch the Edit Protection Group wizard:

Open the Inventory view.
In the inventory pane, expand the Physical Infrastructure node.
In the inventory pane, select the protection group that you want to edit and click Edit Group on the ribbon or right-click the protection group that you want to edit and select Properties.

Edit protection group settings as required.

The Edit Protection Group wizard has the same steps as the New Protection Group wizard. Depending on the protection group type, the steps of the wizard vary. For more information on the settings of each protection group type, see the following sections: