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Sites & Locations

Organize your devices and team by physical location, and manage backup policies per site.

What Sites Are

Sites represent your physical locations — offices, branches, warehouses, client premises. Every device belongs to exactly one site, and team members can be scoped to specific sites. Your account starts with a default site; add more from the Sites page as your organization grows.

  • Each site has a name, optional address, and a storage region (US / Canada / EU).
  • Devices enrolled with a site-specific enrollment code land in that site automatically.
  • Site cards show live device and member counts; click a card to drill into its devices and team.

Creating and Editing Sites

  • In the Customer Portal, go to Sites and click Add site.
  • Enter the site name (e.g. "Downtown Office") and, optionally, its address.
  • Pick the storage region for data from this site’s devices.
  • To edit later, open the ⋮ menu in the top-right corner of the site card and choose Edit.

The Default Site

One site is always marked Default. Devices enrolled without a site-specific code are placed there.

  • To change it, open the ⋮ menu on any other site card and choose Set as default.
  • The previous default site keeps its devices — only the marker moves.
  • The default site cannot be deleted. Set another site as default first if you want to remove it.

Removing a Site

Deleting a site never deletes backups. If the site still holds devices, the portal opens a transfer wizard that requires you to move them to another site first.

  • Open the ⋮ menu on the site card and choose Delete.
  • If devices remain, pick the destination site in the transfer wizard — all devices move together.
  • Site-scoped team assignments for the removed site are cleared; account-wide roles are unaffected.

ℹ Note

Device backup history, storage, and schedules are untouched by a site move — only the site grouping changes.

Backup Policies

Policies let you define backup rules once and enforce them across every device in a site — or across all sites. Desktop agents apply the effective policy automatically on their next sync.

  • A policy contains include-path rules (what must be backed up) and exclude patterns.
  • Paths use cross-platform templates like {HOME}/Documents, resolved per-OS on each device; rules can also target a single platform (Windows, macOS, Linux).
  • Required rules are enforced and locked on the device; optional rules seed editable defaults.
  • Scope a policy to one site, or to All sites for account-wide baselines. A device’s effective policy is the merge of both.