Specifying Yearly Schedule

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

  1. Turn on the Yearly Retention toggle.
  2. In the Backup Settings section, specify the following:
  1. From the Start time drop-down list, select time when the backup policy will create VM backups.
  2. In the Run on section, specify a day of the month when the backup policy will create VM backups.
  3. In the Keep backups for field, specify the retention period to keep VM backups in years.

Specify Yearly Retention