Container Protection

VMs can be organized into containers such as resource pools, clusters, and folders. This type of organization makes it easy to add resources when needed and remove them when they are no longer required. NAKIVO Backup & Replication allows you to add an entire container to a backup or replication job. Any changes within the container—such as adding or removing VMs—are automatically reflected in the corresponding backup or replication job. As a result, all critical VMs remain continuously backed up.

If certain VMs within a container do not need to be backed up or replicated as frequently, you can exclude them from the job. The container itself will still be included, but less critical VMs will be omitted. This approach helps save space in the Backup Repository and improves the performance of backup or replication jobs.

For example, you can configure a backup job for a cluster to run daily while excluding several large VMs that do not require frequent backups. When you modify the job, NAKIVO Backup & Replication prompts you to choose whether to keep or remove backups created during previous job runs.

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