Performing VM Backup

One backup policy can be used to process one or more Azure VMs within one Microsoft Entra tenant. The scope of data that you can protect in a tenant is limited by permissions of a service account that is specified in the backup policy settings.

Before you create an Azure VM backup policy, check the following prerequisites:

• If you plan to create image-level backups of Azure VMs, backup infrastructure components that will take part in the backup process must be added to the backup infrastructure and configured properly. These include backup repositories and worker instances.
• If you plan to receive email notifications on backup policy results, configure email notification settings first. For more information, see Configuring Global Notification Settings.

To schedule data protection tasks to run automatically, create backup policies. For each protected Azure file share, you can also take a cloud-native snapshot manually when needed.