Working with Protection Groups

NOTE

Consider the following:

Protection groups for pre-installed Veeam Agents offer a limited set of operations. To learn more, see Working with Protection Groups for Pre-Installed Veeam Agents.
Assigning a location to a protection group is not supported in the Veeam Backup & Replication web UI.

In Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Agent computers are organized into protection groups. You can perform the following operations with protection groups:

Create a protection group.
Add a protection group to a Veeam Agent backup job.
Edit protection group settings.
Rescan a protection group.
Assign location to a protection group.
Disable a protection group.
Remove a protection group.

Working with Protection Groups for Pre-Installed Veeam Agents

A protection group for pre-installed Veeam Agents offers a limited set of operations. To learn more about protection groups for pre-installed Veeam Agents, see Protection Group Types.

For protection groups for pre-installed Veeam Agents, you can perform the following operations:

Create a protection group.
Add a protection group to a Veeam Agent backup job.
Edit protection group settings.
Disable a protection group.
Remove a protection group.