How can I script the creation of an Enhanced Azure Recovery Services backup policy for Virtual Machines?

Question

I have over 70 backup recovery services vaults and I'm trying to mass create a new Enhanced Azure Virtual Machine Backup policy[1]. Doing this through Azure Portal works great, but is quite tedious.

We've looked into using powershell to script this out, but unfortunately New-AzRecoveryServicesBackupProtectionPolicy doesn't have a PolicyType parameter and everything I've tried seems to always create standard policies.

I'd like to use powershell for this mass creation of enhanced policies, however, if there is a way to do it in another, scripted manner, that'd be great to know.

Thank you,

Nathan

[1] This is the policy creation screen in Azure Portal that let's us create an enhanced policy.

https://i.imgur.com/twNGrhS.png

Answer 1

@Nathan Given per your screen shot, the policies have to be created separately and passed as -RetentionPolicy and -SchedulePolicy parameters. See Back up Azure VMs with Enhanced policy - Azure Backup | Microsoft Learn for details. Did you follow these steps and ran into an issue?

Answer 2

Thanks for posting your question in the Microsoft Q&A forum.

You can use the New-AzRecoveryServicesBackupProtectionPolicy cmdlet with specific parameters to define an Enhanced policy.

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