{"id":4490,"date":"2016-09-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/azure-vm-backup-policy-management"},"modified":"2025-06-23T09:17:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T16:17:31","slug":"azure-vm-backup-policy-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/azure-vm-backup-policy-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Enterprise-level policy management for Azure VM backup in Recovery Services vault"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Azure Backup announced general availability of Recovery Services vault, based on the Azure Resource Manager model, in May 2016. With Recovery Services vault, customers can backup Classic as well as Resource Manager virtual machines using custom defined backup policies. 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