Specifying Daily Schedule

To create a daily schedule for the backup policy, at the Schedule step of the wizard, specify the following:

1. Turn on the Daily Retention toggle.
2. In the Snapshot field, select hours when the backup policy will create VM snapshots.
3. In the Backup field, select hours when the backup policy will create VM backups.
4. In the Snapshot Settings section, specify the following:

1. From the Days of week drop-down list, select days when the backup policy will create VM snapshots.
2. In the Runs per hour field, specify the number of VM snapshots that the backup policy will create within an hour.
3. In the Snapshots to keep field, specify the number of snapshots that you want to keep. If this limit is exceeded, Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft Azure will remove the earliest snapshot from the chain.

5. In the Backup Settings section, specify the retention period to keep VM backups in days or months.