Acronis Backup & Recovery

Operations with custom groups

You create empty groups in the generic root (Physical machines or Virtual machines) or within existing groups and populate them by manual adding machines (static groups) or by adding criteria of dynamic group membership. You can also

• edit a group, that is:
  • change the group name
  • change the group description
  • change the dynamic membership criteria
• transform a static group into a dynamic one by adding membership criteria
• transform a dynamic group into a static one with two options:
  • keep the group members
  • remove the group members
• move a group from the root to another group (any group type to any group type)
• move a group from the parent group to the root
• move a group from one parent group to another (any group type to any group type)
• delete a group, that is, disjoin the group members that remain in the group of all machines anyway.

Operations with groups to which backup policies are applied will result in changing the policies on the member machines. If a machine is not available or reachable at the moment, the action becomes pending and will be performed as soon as the machine becomes available.

For information on how to perform the operations please see Operations with groups.