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Create a policy to back up datastores

You can create a policy or use one of the following predefined policies that are available in BlueXP.

Before you begin

• You should create policies if you do not want to edit the predefined policies.

• To move backups from object store to archival storage, you should be running ONTAP 9.10.1 or later and Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure should be the cloud provider.

• You should configure the archive access tier for each cloud provider.

About this task

The following predefined policies are available in BlueXP:

Policy Name	Label	Retention Value
1 Year Daily LTR (Long Term Retention)	Daily	366
5 Years Daily LTR	Daily	1830
7 Year Weekly LTR	Weekly	370
10 Year Monthly LTR	Monthly	120

Steps

1. In the Virtual machines page, from the Settings drop-down list, select Policies.

2. Click Create policy.

3. In the Policy Details section, specify the policy name.

4. In the Retention section, select one of the retention type and specify the number of backups to retain.

5. Select Primary or Secondary as the backup storage source.

6. (Optional) If you want to move backups from object store to archival storage after a certain number of days for cost optimization, select the Tier Backups to Archival checkbox and enter the number of days after which the backup should be archived.

7. Click Create.

   Note	You cannot edit or delete a policy, which is associated with a datastore.