Excluding instances from data protection by tagging an instance in cloud

If the needs of your data protection environment require it, you can make individual AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud instances invisible to R‑Cloud and therefore exclude them from data protection.

Procedure

Cloud platform Required steps
AWS

  1. In the AWS Management Console, select the AWS account to which the instances that you want to exclude from data protection belong.

  2. In Amazon EC2, select the instance, and then add the hycu‑instance‑sync tag to the instance. Use the following key/value pair:

    Key Value
    hycu‑instance‑sync

    false

    If required, repeat this action for each additional instance that you want to exclude from data protection.

  3. Sign in to the R‑Cloud web user interface.

  4. Select the protection set that includes the same as you selected in step 1. For instructions, see Selecting an R‑Cloud protection set.

  5. In the navigation pane, click Instances Instances, and then click Synchronize Refresh or wait until the next instance synchronization cycle.
Azure

  1. In the Azure portal, select the Azure resource group to which the instances that you want to exclude from data protection belong.

  2. Select the instance, and then click Assign tags to add the hycu‑instance‑sync tag to the instance. Use the following key/value pair:

    Key Value
    hycu‑instance‑sync

    false

    If required, repeat this action for each additional instance that you want to exclude from data protection.

  3. Sign in to the R‑Cloud web user interface.

  4. Select the protection set that includes the same Azure resource group as you selected in step 1. For instructions, see Selecting an R‑Cloud protection set.

  5. In the navigation pane, click Instances Instances, and then click Synchronize Refresh or wait until the next instance synchronization cycle.
Google Cloud

  1. In the Google Cloud Console, select the Google Cloud project to which the instances that you want to exclude from data protection belong.

  2. In Google Compute Engine, select the instance, and then add the hycu‑instance‑sync custom metadata tag to the instance. Use the following key/value pair:

    Key Value
    hycu‑instance‑sync

    false

    If required, repeat this action for each additional instance that you want to exclude from data protection.

  3. Sign in to the R‑Cloud web user interface.

  4. Select the protection set that includes the same Google Cloud project as you selected in step 1. For instructions, see Selecting an R‑Cloud protection set.

  5. In the navigation pane, click Instances Instances, and then click Synchronize Refresh or wait until the next instance synchronization cycle.