{"id":51301,"date":"2023-08-29T19:31:07","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T15:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/?p=51301"},"modified":"2024-03-19T13:26:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T09:26:26","slug":"bulk-msp360-backup-agent-deployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/blog\/bulk-msp360-backup-agent-deployment\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulk MSP360 Managed Backup Agent Deployment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manually installing backup agents, one at a time, on a large number of computers can take a long time. In this guide, we\u2019ll explain how to perform agent installations quickly, and with minimal effort, using MSP360 Managed Backup.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>MSP360 Network Discovery Tool<\/h2>\n<p>MSP360 Network Discovery Tool serves as a valuable asset for bulk deployment of MSP360 Managed Backup, MSP360 RMM, and MSP360 Managed Connect agents. To start working with this tool, navigate to the <strong>Downloads<\/strong> tab, go to the <strong>Discover and Deploy<\/strong> section, and click <strong>Download<\/strong>. Once the tool is downloaded, follow the steps from the set-up wizard to finish the installation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57784\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot_44.png\" alt=\"Discovery and deploy\" width=\"766\" height=\"834\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot_44.png 766w, https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot_44-276x300.png 276w, https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot_44-624x679.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 766px) 100vw, 766px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With this tool, users can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Discover computers:<\/strong> find available computers in the domain.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Deploy MSP360 software agents:<\/strong> select what agents should be installed on which computers and install them in bulk.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"further-reading \">Further reading<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/blog\/streamline-msp360-software-deployment-with-the-network-discovery-tool\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MSP360 Software Deployment with the Network Discovery Tool<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Group Actions<\/h2>\n<p>MSP360 RMM offers a set of group actions that can be applied to your users' computers with flexible configuration and settings. To start working with this feature, navigate to the <strong>RMM<\/strong> tab, <strong>New Group Actions Task<\/strong> section.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57785 aligncenter\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot_45.png\" alt=\"Group Actions\" width=\"1003\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot_45.png 1003w, https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot_45-300x239.png 300w, https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot_45-768x611.png 768w, https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot_45-624x496.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1003px) 100vw, 1003px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the next step, you need to specify which endpoints should be affected and which software should be installed. To install MSP360 Managed Backup agents, you can simply copy the installation link from the <strong>Downloads<\/strong> section.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57786 aligncenter\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot_46.png\" alt=\"Downloads link\" width=\"748\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot_46.png 748w, https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot_46-300x141.png 300w, https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot_46-624x294.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 748px) 100vw, 748px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Using these techniques, you can quickly deploy MSP360 Managed Backup agents to customer endpoints in bulk. If you have any questions or comments, please let us know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manually installing backup agents, one at a time, on a large number of computers can take a long time. In this guide, we\u2019ll explain how to perform agent installations quickly, and with minimal effort, using MSP360 Managed Backup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":51539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[878,931],"tags":[983],"class_list":["post-51301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-msp-university","category-msp360-product-guides","tag-bulk-msp360-backup-agent-deployment"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51301"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57787,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51301\/revisions\/57787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}