There are two ways to protect resources in SnapCenter. One is protecting via 'Resource Group' creation or the implicit way by just selecting the instance or individual DB and click on protect.
Depend on user choice on how they want to go about. Resource group creation is a way for the customer to group resources the way he wants based on critical workloads, scheduling needs etc...
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