Azure Backup moving from default policy to enhanced policy

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Azure Backup moving from default policy to enhanced policy

Mohamed jihad bayali 1,136

Hello Team,

I hope you're doing well,

I have a little question here,

I have a vm member of an Azure backup default policy, and i want to move it to a new Azure backup enhanced policy (So i can do hourly backups).

When i tried to do so, it failed because Azure doesn't support migration from default to enhanced.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-azure-vms-enhanced-policy

So if i understand if i want to do so i would need to :

-Stop backup for the machine that is using the default policy
-Delete the machine and it's backup from Azure Backup
-Once data is deleted (After 14 days) Re-add the VM and then add the VM to the enhanced policy

Is there a better way to do achive this goal?
Because in this scenario, i won't have the backup of the machine for 14 days
Thanks

Eric Perez 1 Reputation point

2022-12-09T08:00:12.887+00:00

I believe that if you create a new policy using the same Backup Vault, you will be able to select each desired Backup Instance and move/change it to your new backup policy.

Moving instances to another policy is not possible if the Backup Vault is not the same, that indeed requires deleting the backup data (and waiting 14 days of grace period or disabling the grace recovery period in that vault).
SadiqhAhmed-MSFT 49,326 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2024-01-12T10:49:09.64+00:00

Update:
@Mohamed jihad bayali Azure VM Backup standard policy to enhanced policy migration is currently in private preview. Reach out to us if you want to enroll yourself for private preview by sending an email at AzCommunity @ Microsoft dot com with subject: Attn: Sadiqh Ahmed and a link to this forum thread for context.

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Eric Perez 1 Reputation point

2022-12-09T08:00:12.887+00:00

I believe that if you create a new policy using the same Backup Vault, you will be able to select each desired Backup Instance and move/change it to your new backup policy.

Moving instances to another policy is not possible if the Backup Vault is not the same, that indeed requires deleting the backup data (and waiting 14 days of grace period or disabling the grace recovery period in that vault).
SadiqhAhmed-MSFT 49,326 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2024-01-12T10:49:09.64+00:00

Update:
@Mohamed jihad bayali Azure VM Backup standard policy to enhanced policy migration is currently in private preview. Reach out to us if you want to enroll yourself for private preview by sending an email at AzCommunity @ Microsoft dot com with subject: Attn: Sadiqh Ahmed and a link to this forum thread for context.

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Carlos Solís Salazar 18,191 MVP Volunteer Moderator

Thank you for your clarification.

You must delete the backup items related to that VM.

First, you must disable the Soft Delete

In your Backup Item, proceed to stop the backup

You must choose Delete backup data

After that, you will be able to add the new backup policy in your VM and avoid this scenario

i won't have the backup of the machine for 14 days

Hope this helps!

Carlos Solís Salazar 18,191 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator

2022-10-07T12:29:27.513+00:00

Hi @Mohamed jihad bayali

How did it go?

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Mohamed jihad bayali 1,136 Reputation points

2022-10-07T14:47:48.27+00:00

Thank you sir for this procedure
I will try this ASAP, it seems that it will work for me
You answered my thread thank you dear
Carlos Solís Salazar 18,191 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator

2022-10-10T12:13:00.687+00:00

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Martin Thong 60 Reputation points

2023-02-27T07:42:12.7+00:00

This works for me.

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Carlos Solís Salazar 18,191 MVP Volunteer Moderator

Hi @Mohamed jihad bayali

Thank you for asking this question on the **Microsoft Q&A Platform. **

Chech this documentation to Switch backup policy

Sign in to the Azure portal. Open the vault dashboard.
On the Backup Items tile, select Azure Virtual Machine.
On the Backup Items pane, you can view the list of protected VMs and last backup status with latest restore points time.
From the vault item's dashboard, you can select a backup policy.

To switch policies, select a different policy and then select Save. The new policy is immediately applied to the vault.

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-azure-manage-vms#switch-backup-policy

Hope this helps!

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Mohamed jihad bayali 1,136 Reputation points

2022-10-06T08:19:15.687+00:00

Hello dear soysoliscarlos,

Thank you for your answer,

This is indeed the actions that i was trying to do, the issue is that when you attempt to change a policy on a backup item configured with standard policy, you will see only standard policies appearing on the list, enhanced policies won't appear.
Same goes for backup items configured with enhanced policies, if you want to change the policy, only enhanced policies will appear.
When i stopped the backup, then resumed the backup, it prompted me with the ability to chose my enhanced policy, but it failed with the following error :

Migration from Standard to Enhanced policy isn't currently supported.
This article confirms it that is impossible to move from standard to enhanced :https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-azure-vms-enhanced-policy
Alexandre Ribeiro do Nascimento 16 Reputation points

2025-04-03T17:01:29.5033333+00:00

It happened to me too,

It seems you cannot change from Enhanced to Standard, but from Standard to Enchanced it worked for me.

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