Dell NetWorker 19.9 Administration Guide

Protection groups for traditional backups

A protection groups for traditional backups identifies the client resources to back up.

Traditional backups support the following types of protection groups:

• Basic client group—A static list of client resources to back up.
• Dynamic client group—A dynamic list of client resources to back up. A dynamic client group automatically generates a list of the client resources that use a client tag which matches the client tag that is specified for the group.

Create multiple groups to perform different types of backups for different Client resources, or to perform backups on different schedules. For example:

• Create one group for backups of clients in the Accounting department, and another group for backups of clients in the Marketing department.
• Create one group for file system backups and one group for backups of Microsoft Exchange data with the NetWorker Module for Microsoft.
• Create one group for a workflow with backups actions that start at 11 p.m., and another group for a workflow with backup actions that start at 2 a.m.