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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.
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This is not currently supported. New-AzRecoveryServicesBackupProtectionPolicy defining the PolicySubType isn't contained in the parameters in AzPowerShell 14.2.0 that is the newest version.
@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?
Ryan Hill's suggestion to see the web page led me to this piece of code:
$new_schedule = Get-AzRecoveryServicesBackupSchedulePolicyObject -PolicySubType "Enhanced" -WorkloadType "AzureVM" -ScheduleRunFrequency "Daily"
It appears that the Get-AzRecoveryServicesBackupSchedulePolicyObject function gets a base policy schedule object, and that function has a parameter for the Policy type.
And I'm now able to successfully create an Enhanced Policy with powershell.
Thank you!
@Nathan Given Glad you were able to resolve your issue.
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.
Please don't forget to close up the thread here by upvoting and accept it as an answer if it is helpful
@hossein jalilian - the documentation doesn't indicate that there is a policytype or policysubtype parameter. What parameters are you using to create an enhanced policy?
