Navigation group procedures

When using the Navigation grouping feature, groups can be created, edited, and deleted with no harm to the integrity of the Navigation pane hierarchy. Click the folder icon to enable or disable the Navigation grouping feature. (Release 7.5 and higher).

Backup schedules are easily created with Navigation groups. Select the group from the Navigation pane, and the schedule created applies only to the selected items in the group. For details on scheduling backups, see File-level Backups.

Navigation group strategies

Use Case

Strategy Recommendation

Multiple users assigned to portions of a large virtual machine installation.

Create multiple groups and assign each user to one or more groups.

One administrator in charge of a large installation.

Create multiple groups corresponding with levels of importance or customers. No need to assign users because there is only one administrator.

See the following procedure for details:

     To create a navigation group

     To modify a navigation group

     To delete a navigation group

     To assign users to a navigation group