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Configure Customized Groups for Group View

To help you manage large environments, you can create custom groups and then add computers to the groups based on criteria that you determine.

Example: Customized Groups for Group View

Suppose your Sales department contains SQL database files distributed across 100 computers. You can add all the machines that contain the sales data you want to back up to a customized group named Sales Data. Customized groups appear in the source tree as main branches, thus allowing you to quickly locate and select groups when you define your backup jobs.

To configure customized groups for group view

1. Open Backup Manager and click the Source tab.

   The Backup Manager opens, showing the default Group View.

   The source tree displays the Arcserve Backup agents as main branches. The Customize Group button appears next to the views drop-down list.

2. Click Customize Group.

   The Customized Group Configuration dialog opens.

   Customized Group Configuration displays existing groups, by name, on the left side of the dialog, and the servers that belong to each group on the right.

3. Click New to create a new group.
   1. In the Name field, enter a name for your group.
   2. If desired, enter a comment that describes your group.

   Click OK.

   The new group is added to the list of groups on the left.

4. Select the group that you created, if it is not already selected.
5. From the list of servers on the right, click a server to add to the group and click Assign.

   The server appears below the group.

   Repeat this step, as required, to add more servers to the group.

6. Click OK to save settings and exit Customized Group Configuration.