SLA Templates

An SLA template is a collection of settings that allows you to protect your data according to a periodic backup schedule (regularly, within a backup window) in a way the data protection complies with SLA standards in your company. These standards are defined by a specific target SLA value that indicates how much data you can afford to lose in case a disaster strikes, which allows you to troubleshoot backup issues and facilitate backup infrastructure audit.

The target SLA value is a percentage of successfully created restore points out of the total number of restore points expected to be produced by an SLA-based backup policy. Based on this percentage, Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure estimates the SLA compliance ratio for all SLA-based backup policies that have the related SLA template assigned. For more information, see How Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure Estimates SLA Compliance.

One SLA template can be assigned to one or more SLA-based backup policies. When configuring an SLA template, you can create separate independent schedules for cloud-native snapshots, image-level backups and archived backups. For more information on how Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure builds snapshot, backup and archive backup chains, see sections Snapshot Chain, Backup Chain and Archive Backup Chain.

Note

Cloud-native snapshots created according to snapshot schedules do not participate in the process of producing backups. To produce image-level backups according to backup schedules, Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure takes temporary snapshots but then removes these snapshots based on their own retention settings.