Step 5. Configure Backup Target Settings

By default, backup policies create only cloud-native snapshots of processed instances. At the Targets step of the wizard, you can specify a location for the created snapshots and enable additional data protection scenarios.

Configuring Snapshot Settings

To choose whether you want to store the created cloud-native snapshots in multi-regional locations closest to the regions of the source VMs or in the same regions where the source VMs reside, select either the Multi-regional or Regional option in the Snapshot settings section.

Configuring Backup Settings

To instruct Veeam Backup for Google Cloud to create image-level backups of the selected VM instances, do the following:

In the Backup settings section, set the Enable backups toggle to On.
Click Choose repository.
In the Choose repository window, select a backup repository where the created image-level backups will be stored.

For a backup repository to be displayed in the Repository list, it must be added to Veeam Backup for Google Cloud as described in section Adding Backup Repositories. The Repository list shows only backup repositories of the Standard and Nearline storage classes.

To save changes made to the backup policy settings, click Apply.

Configuring Archive Settings

To instruct Veeam Backup for Google Cloud to store backed-up data in a low-cost, long-term archive storage, do the following:

In the Backup settings section, select the Enable backup archiving check box.
Click Choose repository.
In the Choose repository window, select a backup repository where the archived data will be stored.

To save changes made to the backup policy settings, click Apply.

For more information on the backup archiving mechanism, see Enabling Backup Archiving.