Specifying Weekly Schedule

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

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

1. From the Start time drop-down list, select time when the backup policy will create VM snapshots.
2. 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.