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  3. NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide
  5. Section VI. Configuring backups
  7. Managing protection plans
  9. Subscribe an asset or an asset group to a protection plan
NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide

Subscribe an asset or an asset group to a protection plan

You can subscribe a single asset or a group of assets to a protection plan. An asset or a group of assets can be subscribed to multiple protection plans. Before you can subscribe assets to a protection plan, you must create a protection plan.

NetBackup supports homogenous cloud asset subscriptions. When you subscribe an asset to a protection plan, the cloud provider of the asset must be the same as the cloud provider that is defined in the protection plan.

Note:

You cannot edit these settings when you subscribe an asset: Storage options or Permissions. Changes to Schedules are limited. If you want to adjust these settings, you must create a new protection plan and subscribe assets to the new plan. Or, you can customize the plan for the asset.

See Customizing protection plans.

To subscribe an asset or an asset group to a protection plan

  1. On the left, click Workloads then the workload type (for example: VMware).
  2. Select an asset type (for example: Virtual machines, Intelligent VM groups).
  3. Select one or more assets.
  4. Click Add protection.

    If you selected a Cloud workload asset or asset group, proceed to step 7.

  5. In Choose a protection plan, select the name of the protection plan and click Next.
  6. (Optional) Adjust any options in the Backup options or Advanced options.

    • Schedules

      Change the backup start window for full or incremental schedules.

      For SQL Server transaction log schedules you can change the start window, the recurrence, and the retention period.

    • Backup options

      Adjust the backup options that were set up in the original protection plan. The options in this area change depending on workload.

    • Advanced

      Change or add any options that were set up in the original protection plan.

    You need the following permissions to make these changes:

    • Edit attributes, to edit Backup options and Advanced options.

    • Edit full and incremental schedules, to edit the start window for these schedule types.

    • Edit transaction log schedules, to edit the settings for SQL Server transaction log schedules.

  7. Click Protect.

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