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# Snapshot SLAs

Storware Backup & Recovery can periodically create snapshots and allows keeping several of them for every VM as additional recovery points. This section describes the policies that enable the configuration of this mechanism.

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**Note:** Snapshot management for on-demand or scheduled operations is not available until the virtual machine has a snapshot management policy assigned to it.
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