Veeam for Azure Backup: Why VMs can be protected by only 1 Policy?

[Roy1234]

Hello,

we have the trouble, that we want to Protect the same VM in a Backup-Policy and in an other Policy for Snapshoting before Patchday or manual Snapshots.
Our Veeam say: This resource is Protected by another Policy and skipped it.

Any body can say us: Why can a VM only have one policy, we dont understand why this restriction? Is there perhaps a way to bypass this restriction?


Thank you
kindly Regards

[nielsengelen]

Hi,

This is indeed the current product design. We recommend for patch days to create a manual snapshot.

Even if you would have 2 policies, it could be that the policy ran hours before and if you would run the policy manually, it would create a separate snapshot outside of the policy retention so there is no difference compared to taking a manual snapshot.

[Roy1234]

Hi,
thank you very much for this Information this feature is very good for us.

The only thing what would be nicer and make the life more easier for us, is to see or filter with the Azure Tags in this Window. That would be so nice to order/sort the machines better.

kindly Regards

[nielsengelen]

Can you clarify which window you are talking about exactly so we can look into it as potential future enhancement.