Step 4. Specify Policy Source

At the Source step of the wizard, specify an Azure account, region and resources to back up:

  1. From the Source drop-down list, select an Azure account that has access to Azure resources that you want to protect with the backup policy.
  2. From the Regions drop-down list, select regions whose resources you want to protect with the backup policy.
  3. In the Resources section, specify resources that you want to protect with the backup policy:
  • Select All if you want to protect all virtual machines in the selected region.
  • Select Protect the following resources if you want to protect specific virtual machines in the selected region.
  1. [For the Protect the following resources option] Specify the following:
  1. From the Type drop-down list, select a type of the resource that you want to protect. You can select the following options:
  • Virtual machines — select this option if you want to protect specific virtual machines.
  • Resource Group — select this option if you want to protect all virtual machines from a specific resource group.
  • Tag — select this option if you want to protect virtual machines with specific tags.
  1. From the Select one or more resources drop-down list, select resources that you want to protect. Click Add.

Repeat steps a and b for each resource that you want to add to the backup scope.

  1. [For the Veeam Data Cloud default backup policy] Click Save.

Specify Policy Source