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title: "Editing Backup Policy Settings"
description: "You can modify settings configured while creating the policy: Open the wizard to edit backup policy settings in one of the following ways: Open the Policies page in the Backup section of the main menu."
canonical: "https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vdcazure/userguide/backup_policy_edit.html"
breadcrumb: "User Guide > Performing Backup > Managing Backup Policies > Editing Backup Policy Settings"
dateModified: "2026-11-06"
---

# Editing Backup Policy Settings

You can modify settings configured while creating the policy:

1. Open the wizard to edit backup policy settings in one of the following ways:

   - Open the **Policies** page in the **Backup** section of the main menu. In the policies list, select the required policy and click **Edit** on the ribbon or right-click the policy and select **Edit**.
   - [Not applicable to virtual network configuration backup policies] Open the **Azure** page in the **Backup** section of the main menu and select the **Virtual Machines**, **Azure SQL** or **Azure File** tab, depending on the type of the policy you want to edit. Click the menu icon in the top right corner of the policy widget and click **Edit**.

2. Edit the backup policy settings as described in sections [Creating VM Backup Policy](backup_vm.md), [Creating SQL Backup Policy](backup_sql.md), [Creating Azure Files Backup Policy](backup_files.md), [Creating Virtual Network Configuration Backup Policy](backup_configuration.md).

::: note

Consider the following:

- When you click the **Edit** icon, Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft Azure opens the custom backup policy wizard.
- If you created a backup copy job for a backup policy, you cannot update the backup copy settings in the backup policy wizard. To create a new backup copy job for the policy or edit settings of an existing backup copy job, launch the **Edit Backup Copy** wizard. To learn more, see [Editing Backup Copy Job Settings](backup_copy_edit.md).

:::

[![Edit Backup Policy Settings](images/policy_edit.png "Edit Backup Policy Settings")](images/policy_edit.png){.toggle scale=60}