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Operations with groups to which backup policies are applied will result in changing the policies on
the member machines. On any hierarchy change, that is, when moving, removing, creating groups;
adding machines to static groups; or when machines enter a group based on dynamic criteria, a huge
number of inheritance changes may occur. Please familiarize yourself with this section to be sure
that your actions yield the desired result and to understand the result of the automated Acronis
Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server operations.
What is applying, deploying and revoking?
Applying a policy establishes the correspondence between the policy and one or more machines.
This process takes place inside the management server's database and does not take much time.
Deploying a policy transfers the established correspondence to the machines. Physically, a bundle of
tasks is created on each machine according to the configuration provided by the policy.
Revoking a policy is the reverse action to the aggregate of applying and deploying. Revoking removes
the correspondence between the policy and one or more machines and then removes the tasks from
the machines.
If a machine is not available or not reachable at the moment, the change will be propagated on the
machine when it becomes available. This means that deploying a policy to multiple machines is not a
momentary action. The same is true for revoking. These two processes may be durable and so the
management server tracks and displays personal statuses for each machine that it works with, as
well as the policy's cumulative status.
2.15.4.1
A policy on a machine or a group
In the diagrams below, each numbered scheme illustrates the result of the respectively numbered
action.
The container stands for a group; the colored circle stands for a machine with applied policy; the dark
colored circle stands for a machine with two applications of the same policy; the white circle stands
for a machine to which no policy is applied.
Policy on a machine
1.
A policy can be applied to a machine.
2.
A policy can be revoked from a machine.
Policy on a group
1.
A policy can be applied to a group.
