About intelligent groups
Intelligent groups let you create dynamic groups of the SQL Server assets that meet one or more conditions. You can configure multiple intelligent groups. Note that if the criteria in two or more groups match an asset, NetBackup backs up the asset for each policy that contains each of those intelligent groups.
Intelligent groups provide the following benefits for the protection of SQL Server assets:
Better management of SQL Server assets with the ability to group them together for automatic protection. For example, you can group stand-alone instances, failover cluster instances, or availability groups. You can also group databases by their type (user or system).
NetBackup dynamically creates the list of assets to back up when the backup policy runs. You do not need to manually add or remove assets from the list.
Changes to the NetBackup environment are reflected in the intelligent groups. For example, if a SQL Server asset is added or removed from the NetBackup environment, that change is automatically reflected in any intelligent groups that are associated with that asset.