Manage the Backup Scopes for Virtual Machines
You can configure backup scopes for Azure VMs, Amazon EC2 instances, and Google VM instances under the Virtual Machines service tile.
*Note: Backup for Azure VMs and Amazon EC2 instances may incur additional costs on data transfer, snapshots, operations, or API calls, etc. For more details, refer to FAQs.
The backup scopes can be used as virtual tenants. The Azure VMs, Amazon EC2 instances, or Google VM instances in the same backup scope are protected in the same backup frequency and applied with the same data retention policy.
You can create multiple backup scopes and also update each of the backup scopes to change their protected VMs, backup schedule, and data retention settings.
- To create a new backup scope, refer to:
- [Create a New Backup Scope for Azure VM ](#missing-link)
- [Create a New Backup Scope for Amazon EC2](#missing-link)
- [Create a New Backup Scope for Google VM Instance](#missing-link)
- For the existing backup scopes, you can perform the following actions:
- Edit – To edit a backup scope, you can select a backup scope and click **Edit** button on the command bar, or you can click the **Edit** button when you are viewing the backup scope details.
If an Azure VM/Amazon EC2 instance/Google VM instance has been added to a backup scope, it cannot be added to another.
When you are editing a backup scope and the VMs that are newly selected to protect are from the region that has a storage location configured in this backup scope, the storage location will be automatically populated and cannot be changed. If you select VMs from a new region to protect, you must configure a storage profile for this new region by selecting an existing storage profile or creating a new one. We strongly recommend using a storage account from the same region for the best traffic. For details on configuring storages, refer to [Manage Your Storage](#missing-link).
- Delete – To delete a backup scope, you can select a backup scope and click the **Delete** button on the command bar, or you can click the **Delete** option from the More actions list when you are viewing the details of a backup scope. You can also select multiple backup scopes to delete. When deleting backup scopes, you can select how to handle your backup data: keep the data and follow the configured retention policy, keep the data for 30 days before deletion, or delete the backup data immediately
- Run backup now – If you want to start a backup immediately, you can select a backup scope and click **Run backup now**, or you can click the **Run backup now** from the More actions list when you are viewing the details of a backup scope.
