Specifying Details for Custom Policy

If you have selected the Create a custom policy option at the Policy Type step of the wizard, specify the following details for the backup policy at the Policy Info step of the wizard:

In the Policy Info section, specify a name and description for the backup policy. The following characters are not supported in the Name field: / \ " ' : | < > + = ; , ? ! * % # ^ @ & $ .
In the Backup section, specify the following:

If you want to create backups with the backup policy:

From the Storage drop-down list, select a Veeam Data Cloud storage to store backups created by the backup policy.
To create a backup copy job for the backup policy, turn on the Create a Backup Copy toggle.

Note

The Create a Backup Copy option is available only if the selected Veeam Data Cloud storage is configured to use external storage. To learn more, see Managing External Backup Storage.

If you do not want to create backups with the backup policy, turn off the Enable Backup toggle. In this case, the backup copy will create only snapshots. The Create Backup Copy option will be unavailable.
[For Windows-based Azure VMs] If you want to enable application-aware processing for the policy, turn on the Enable Application-aware snapshots toggle.

Important

Consider the following:

To enable application-aware processing, VSS agents must be installed on source Azure VMs. To install VSS agents, Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft Azure runs a specific PowerShell script on the source Azure VMs. That is why if you use PowerShell execution policies to control the conditions under which PowerShell loads configuration files and runs scripts on your source VMs, make sure that the LocalMachine scope is set to the RemoteSigned value. Otherwise, Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft Azure will not be able to run the script and application-aware processing will fail.
While creating application-aware snapshots, VSS Guest Agent uses the VSS Copy Backup type to create snapshots of the processed Azure VMs during the backup policy session. This type of VSS backup does not support truncation of transaction log. For more information on VSS Backup types, see Microsoft Docs.

In the Tags section, click the Tags will be copied button to specify what tags you want to assign to created snapshots or to disable the tags copying option in the Tags configurations window:

If you want to assign tags to created snapshots, In the Add custom tags to created snapshots section, specify a key and its value for the tag. Click Add.

Repeat this step for each tag that you want to assign to created snapshots.

If you do not want to assign any tags to created snapshots, turn off the Copy Tags from source volume.