Techniques described herein relate to methods for managing backup and restore operations. The method may include obtaining a health data items associated with vProxies; performing a first clustering analysis using the health data items to apply a first vProxy health label to a first portion of the vProxies and a second vProxy health label to a second portion of the vProxies; performing a first confidence analysis to determine a separate vProxy health confidence value for the first vProxy health label assigned to each of the first portion of vProxies; ranking the first portion of vProxies based on the first confidence analysis to obtain a ranked vProxy health list; receiving a request to perform a backup and restore management operation; and providing, in response to the request, a portion of the ranked vProxy health list to an entity requesting the backup and restore management operation.