Managing protection sets

By default, a predefined protection set is created automatically (named default-protection-set and represented by the  icon) and all the projects that are linked to the billing account of your HYCU for Google Cloud subscription are included in it. You can adjust the default setup to better suit your needs by creating additional protection sets and distributing your projects among them.

You can perform the following tasks related to protection sets:

Task	Instructions
Create a protection set and include preferred projects in it.	“Creating protection sets”
Edit an existing protection set.	“Editing protection sets”
Add a project to a protection set by using a label.	“Adding projects to a protection set by using a label”
Exclude a project from a protection set.	“Excluding projects from protection sets”
Delete a protection set that you no longer need.	“Deleting protection sets”

Consideration

All projects that are linked to the billing account of the currently selected HYCU for Google Cloud subscription are displayed.

Creating protection sets

If you have the required permissions granted, you can create additional protection sets that allow you to have different data protection setup for different groups of projects.

Considerations

If you move a project to a different protection set, consider the following:

• Policies will be automatically unassigned from the instances, the applications, and the buckets in the projects.
• Credential groups that were manually assigned to instances in the projects will be automatically unassigned from those instances.

Procedure

1. In the Protection Sets dialog box, from the Subscription — billing account drop-down menu, select the HYCU for Google Cloud subscription for which you want to create a new protection set.

2. Click  New. The New Protection Set dialog box opens.

3. Enter a name for your protection set and, optionally, its description.

4. From the list of available projects, select one or more projects that you want to include in the protection set.

   t Tip  You can search for a project by entering its name in the Project search field and then pressing Enter. By selecting the Project check box, you select all projects at once.

5. Click Save.

The protection set is created and added to the list of protection sets.

Editing protection sets

If you have the required permissions granted, you can change the name of a protection set, and include or exclude projects from the protection set. You can exclude the projects from the protection set also directly by following the procedure described in “Excluding projects from protection sets”.

Consideration

If you move a project to a different protection set, consider the following:

• Policies will be automatically unassigned from the instances, the applications, and the buckets in the projects.
• Credential groups that were manually assigned to instances in the projects will be automatically unassigned from those instances.

Procedure

1. In the Protection Sets dialog box, from the Subscription — billing account drop-down menu, select the HYCU for Google Cloud subscription with the protection set that you want to edit.

2. From the list of protection sets, select the one that you want to edit, and then click  Edit.

3. Edit the selected protection set as required.

4. Click Save.

Adding projects to a protection set by using a label

As an alternative to adding a project to a protection set by using the HYCU for Google Cloud web user interface, you can also add a project to a protection set by attaching the hycu-protection-set label to the project in Google Cloud.

Prerequisite

The protection set to which you want to add the project must be created in HYCU for Google Cloud.

Procedure

In Google Cloud, attach the label to the project as the following key-value pair:

Key	Value
hycu-protection-set	<ProtectionSetName> In this case, <ProtectionSetName> is the name of the protection set to which you want to add the project.

For detailed instructions on how to create and manage labels, see Google Cloud documentation.

Excluding projects from protection sets

If you have the required permissions granted, you can exclude a project from a protection set by using the HYCU for Google Cloud web user interface or by adding the hycu-project-exclude label to the project in Google Cloud.

I want to exclude the project...	Consideration	Instructions
By using the HYCU for Google Cloud web user interface.	When you exclude the project from the protection set other than the default one, it is automatically moved to the default protection set. If you want to completely remove the project from HYCU for Google Cloud and to stop protecting its resources, you must exclude the project from the default protection set.	“Excluding a project by using the HYCU for Google Cloud web user interface”
By adding the hycu-project-exclude label to the project in Google Cloud.	When you exclude the project from the protection set, it is completely removed from HYCU for Google Cloud and its resources are no longer protected.	“Excluding a project by using a label”

Excluding a project by using the HYCU for Google Cloud web user interface

Procedure

1. In the Protection Sets dialog box, from the Subscription — billing account drop-down menu, select the HYCU for Google Cloud subscription with the protection set from which you want to exclude one or more projects.

2. Only if the project belongs to a protection set other than the default one. Do the following:

   1. Clicknext to the protection set with the project that you want to exclude. The list of all included projects is displayed.

   2. Select the project that you want to exclude from the protection set, and then click  Remove.

   3. Click Yes to confirm that you want to exclude the selected project.

   The excluded project is added to the default protection set.

3. Only if you want to exclude the project from the default protection set. Do the following:

   1. Clicknext to the default protection set. The list of all included projects is displayed.

   2. Select the project that you want to exclude from the default protection set, and then click  Remove.

   3. Click Yes to confirm that you want to exclude the selected project.

   The project is no longer included in any protection set and HYCU for Google Cloud no longer retrieves the project information from Google Cloud.

Excluding a project by using a label

Consideration

If after excluding a project from a protection set and HYCU for Google Cloud by using the hycu-project-exclude label, you need to add the same project to HYCU for Google Cloud again, contact HYCU Customer Support.

Procedure

In Google Cloud, add the label to the project as the following key-value pair:

Key	Value
hycu-project-exclude	true

After you add the label to the project, the project is no longer included in the protection set and HYCU for Google Cloud no longer retrieves the project information from Google Cloud.

For detailed instructions on how to create and manage labels, see Google Cloud documentation.

Deleting protection sets

You can at any time delete protection sets that you no longer need.

Prerequisites

• The protection set that you want to delete is empty with no included projects.

• The current data protection scope is set to a protection set other than the protection set that you want to delete.

Consideration

The default protection set created by HYCU for Google Cloud cannot be deleted (represented by the  icon).

Procedure

1. In the Protection Sets dialog box, from the Subscription — billing account drop-down menu, select the HYCU for Google Cloud subscription that contains the protection set that you want to delete.

2. From the list of protection sets, select the one that you want to delete from HYCU for Google Cloud, and then click  Delete.

3. Click Yes to confirm that you want to delete the selected protection set.