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articles/backup/backup-azure-vms-enhanced-policy.md

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title: Back up Azure VMs with Enhanced policy
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description: Learn how to configure Enhanced policy to back up VMs.
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ms.topic: how-to
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ms.date: 07/04/2022
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ms.date: 03/15/2023
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ms.reviewer: geg
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ms.service: backup
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author: jyothisuri
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>[!Important]
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>- [Default policy](./backup-during-vm-creation.md#create-a-vm-with-backup-configured) will not support protecting newer Azure offerings, such as [Trusted Launch VM](backup-support-matrix-iaas.md#tvm-backup), [Ultra SSD](backup-support-matrix-iaas.md#vm-storage-support), [Shared disk](backup-support-matrix-iaas.md#vm-storage-support), and Confidential Azure VMs.
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>- Enhanced policy currently doesn't support protecting Ultra SSD.
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>- Enhanced policy currently doesn't support protecting Ultra SSD. You can use [selective disk backup (preview)](selective-disk-backup-restore.md) to exclude these disks, and then configure backup.
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>- Backups for VMs having [data access authentication enabled disks](../virtual-machines/windows/download-vhd.md?tabs=azure-portal#secure-downloads-and-uploads-with-azure-ad) will fail.
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You must enable backup of Trusted Launch VM through enhanced policy only. Enhanced policy provides the following features:
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>- Enhanced policy is only available to unprotected VMs that are new to Azure Backup. Note that Azure VMs that are protected with existing policy can't be moved to Enhanced policy.
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>- Back up an Azure VM with disks that has public network access disabled is not supported.
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## Enable selective disk backup and restore (preview)
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You can exclude non-critical disks from backup by using selective disk backup to save costs. Using this capability, you can selectively back up a subset of the data disks that are attached to your VM, and then restore a subset of the disks that are available in a recovery point, both from instant restore and vault tier. [Learn more](selective-disk-backup-restore.md).
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## Next steps
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- [Run a backup immediately](./backup-azure-vms-first-look-arm.md#run-a-backup-immediately)

articles/backup/selective-disk-backup-restore.md

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### Configure backup with Azure CLI
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During the configure protection operation, you need to specify the disk list setting with an **inclusion** / **exclusion** parameter, giving the LUN numbers of the disks to be included or excluded in the backup.
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During the configure protection operation, you need to specify the disk list setting with an **inclusion**/**exclusion** parameter, giving the *LUN* numbers of the disks to be included or excluded in the backup.
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>The configure protection operation overrides the previous settings, they will not be cumulative.

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- Manage critical data in a subset of the VM disks.
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For more information, see [Selective Disk Backup Restore](selective-disk-backup-restore.md).
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For more information, see [Selective disk backup and restore](selective-disk-backup-restore.md).
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## Azure Kubernetes Service backup (preview)
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