when i select the backup schedule as weekly in azure backup then the initial backup trigger as a full backup. Ex i select 18th march 9am, then the 18th march 9am trigger full backup then next week also weekly backup will trigger. then next week date is 25th march 9am. 25th 9am triggering backup is full backup or incremental backup?

@Abdul Basith Appreciate your patience in this matter! VM backups are always first full and forever incremental. This is applicable for weekly/monthly/yearly backups as well. May I know how this information is useful? For example, are you worried that Azure Backup would add up more storage or whether you’d prefer a full backup, etc? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If the response helped, do " Accept Answer " and up-vote it

Azure Weekly backup triggering is incremental or Full?

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SadiqhAhmed-MSFT 38,561 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2021-03-22T19:12:04.33+00:00

@Abdul Basith Appreciate your patience in this matter!

VM backups are always first full and forever incremental. This is applicable for weekly/monthly/yearly backups as well. May I know how this information is useful? For example, are you worried that Azure Backup would add up more storage or whether you’d prefer a full backup, etc?

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عايد مخلد المطيري 16 Reputation points

2021-03-22T19:22:25.9+00:00

gooooooooood

Abdul Basith 136 Reputation points

2021-03-29T05:50:30.33+00:00

Hi @SadiqhAhmed-MSFT

Thanks for the update. I need to schedule monthly full backup on azure vm backup. how can i schedule it? its showing only daily and weekly .

SadiqhAhmed-MSFT 38,561 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2021-03-30T19:39:51.07+00:00

@Abdul Basith IMHO you can employ Azure Runbook automation to trigger Backups on a monthly schedule, Just ensure you provide in the right retention values as they will be considered as Adhoc backups triggered via PS.

https://github.com/SurajSPujari/Runbook_for_automating_AzureVMBackups/blob/master/backuprunbook.ps1

Hope this helps.

Faizan Muhammad 0 Reputation points

2024-01-11T11:11:15.18+00:00

It would be great to document this. I had been reading through Azure VM Backup documentation. It explains the difference between different types of backups but never states that Azure has a default behavior of some sort.
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