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title: Back up Azure VMs in a Recovery Services vault
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description: Describes how to back up Azure VMs in a Recovery Services vault using the Azure Backup
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ms.topic: conceptual
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ms.date: 06/01/2021
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ms.date: 09/29/2022
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author: v-amallick
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ms.service: backup
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ms.author: v-amallick
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# Back up Azure VMs in a Recovery Services vault
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To apply a backup policy to your Azure VMs, follow these steps:
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1. Navigate to Backup center and click **+Backup** from the **Overview** tab.
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1. Go to the Backup center and click **+Backup** from the **Overview** tab.
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![Backup button](./media/backup-azure-arm-vms-prepare/backup-button.png)
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2. In **Backup schedule**, specify when backups should be taken. You can take daily or weekly backups for Azure VMs.
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3. In **Instant Restore**, specify how long you want to retain snapshots locally for instant restore.
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* When you restore, backed up VM disks are copied from storage, across the network to the recovery storage location. With instant restore, you can leverage locally stored snapshots taken during a backup job, without waiting for backup data to be transferred to the vault.
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* You can retain snapshots for instant restore for between one to five days. Two days is the default setting.
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* You can retain snapshots for instant restore for between one to five days. The default setting is *two days*.
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4. In **Retention range**, specify how long you want to keep your daily or weekly backup points.
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5. In **Retention of monthly backup point** and **Retention of yearly backup point**, specify whether you want to keep a monthly or yearly backup of your daily or weekly backups.
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6. Select **OK** to save the policy.
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![New backup policy](./media/backup-azure-arm-vms-prepare/new-policy.png)
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> [!NOTE]
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> Azure Backup doesn't support automatic clock adjustment for daylight-saving changes for Azure VM backups. As time changes occur, modify backup policies manually as required.
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>- Azure Backup doesn't support automatic clock adjustment for daylight-saving changes for Azure VM backups. As time changes occur, modify backup policies manually as required.
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>- If you want hourly backups, then you can configure *Enhanced backup policy*. For more information, see [Back up an Azure VM using Enhanced policy](backup-azure-vms-enhanced-policy.md#create-an-enhanced-policy-and-configure-vm-backup).
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## Trigger the initial backup
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The initial backup will run in accordance with the schedule, but you can run it immediately as follows:
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1. Navigate to Backup center and select the **Backup Instances** menu item.
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1. Go to the Backup center and select the **Backup Instances** menu item.
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1. Select **Azure Virtual machines** as the **Datasource type**. Then search for the VM that you have configured for backup.
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1. Right-click the relevant row or select the more icon (…), and then click **Backup Now**.
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1. In **Backup Now**, use the calendar control to select the last day that the recovery point should be retained. Then select **OK**.

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