Defining a Service Level Agreement backup job

When your Exchange databases are listed for each of your Exchange Server instances, select and apply a service level agreement (SLA) policy to start protecting your data.

1. In the navigation pane, expand Manage Protection > Databases > Exchange.
2. Select an Exchange instance to back up all the data in that instance, or click an instance name, and then select individual databases that you want to back up.
3. Click Select an SLA Policy and choose an SLA Policy.
   Predefined choices are Gold, Silver, and Bronze, each with different frequencies and retention rates. Gold is the most frequent with the shortest retention rate. You can also create a custom SLA policy or edit an existing policy. For more information see Creating an SLA policy for hypervisors, databases, and file systems.
4. Click Select Options to define options for your backup, such as enabling log backups for future recovery options, and specifying the parallel streams to reduce the time that is taken to back up large databases. Save your changes.
5. Configure the SLA policy by clicking the icon in the Policy Options column of the SLA Policy Status table.
   For more information about SLA configuration options, see Setting SLA configuration options for a backup job.
6. To run the policy outside of the scheduled job, select the instance or database and then click Actions > Start.
   The status changes to Running for your chosen SLA. To pause the schedule, click Actions > Pause Schedule, and to cancel a job after it has started, click Actions > Cancel.