Using Custom Groups - ACRONIS BACKUP AND RECOVERY 10 ADVANCED SERVER - UPDATE 3 User Manual

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IP address range.
Multiple criteria can be specified for a dynamic group. For example, a set of criteria "OS equals
Windows 2000, OS equals Windows 2003, OU equals Accounting" is interpreted as "all machines
running Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 and belonging to the Accounting organizational unit".
The All machines group can be thought of as a dynamic group with the single built-in criterion:
include all the registered machines.
2.14.3.3

Using custom groups

Grouping helps the administrator to organize data protection by company departments, by Active
Directory organizational units, by various populations of users, by the site locations and the like. To
make the best use of the AD OU criterion, consider reproducing the Active Directory hierarchy in the
management server. Grouping by the IP address range enables taking account of the network
topology.
The groups you create can be nested. The management server is capable of maintaining up to 500
groups in total. A machine can be a member of more than one group.
Besides physical machines, you can group virtual machines (p. 320) hosted on registered
virtualization servers. Virtual machines have their own grouping criteria depending on their
properties.
2.14.3.4 Example
The diagram below presents an example of group hierarchy.
Six machines are registered on the management server:
1 - the international sales manager's laptop (Windows Vista)
2 - the server that holds the corporate database and the shared document storage (Windows Server
2008)
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