Editing Backup Policy Settings

You can edit backup policies in the Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Web UI only. However, you must first launch the Edit Policy wizard from the Veeam Backup & Replication console to edit a backup policy:

1. In the Veeam Backup & Replication console, open the Home view.

2. Navigate to Jobs.

3. Select the necessary backup policy and click Edit on the ribbon.

Alternatively, you can right-click the policy and select Edit.

4. Complete the Edit Policy wizard:

1. To provide a new name and description for the policy, follow the instructions provided in the Veeam Backup for Google Cloud User Guide, section Performing VM Backup (step 2) or Performing SQL Backup (step 2).
2. To choose another project or folder, or to specify another service account to access the selected project or folder, follow the instructions provided in the Veeam Backup for Google Cloud User Guide, section Performing VM Backup (step 3) or Performing SQL Backup (step 3).
3. To modify the list of regions in which instances that you plan to back up reside, or to add instances to the backup scope, follow the instructions provided in the Veeam Backup for Google Cloud User Guide, section Performing VM Backup (step 4a or step 4b) or Performing SQL Backup (step 4a or step 4c).
4. To specify a location for snapshots, or to instruct Veeam Backup for Google Cloud to create image-level backups, follow the instructions provided in the Veeam Backup for Google Cloud User Guide, section Performing VM Backup (step 5) or Performing SQL Backup (step 5).
5. To modify the schedule configured for the policy, follow the instructions provided in the Veeam Backup for Google Cloud User Guide, section Performing VM Backup (step 6) or Performing SQL Backup (step 6).
6. [This step applies only to VM backup policies] To assign labels to cloud-native snapshots, follow the instructions provided in the Veeam Backup for Google Cloud User Guide, section Performing VM Backup (step 7).

[This step applies only to SQL backup policies] To choose whether you want to use a staging server to perform backup, follow the instructions provided in the Veeam Backup for Google Cloud User Guide, section Performing SQL Backup (step 7).

7. To configure automatic retry, health check and notification settings, follow the instructions provided in section Performing VM Backup (step 8) or Performing SQL Backup (step 8).
8. At the Summary step of the wizard, review configuration information and click Finish.