The Backup interface has been rebuilt to match the rest of Automate. Your policies, your data and your schedules are unchanged. This is a change to the interface, not to how Backup works.
From Backup V1.17 (11 November 2026), each policy also says which storage bucket its backups go to, and assigning policies has moved into the new interface.
The policies table
Before
After
| Column | Shows |
|---|---|
| Active | A toggle for whether the policy is running |
| Policy name | The name you gave it |
| Policy type | User or Shared Drive |
| Description | The description you gave it |
| Coverage | What the policy applies to |
| Actions | Edit policy, View assignments, Delete policy |
A policy count is shown in the top right of the table.
Searching and sorting
Search across policy names and descriptions. Sort by newest first, oldest first, A to Z, Z to A, active or inactive.
Opening a policy
Select the row, or choose Edit policy from the actions menu. Both open the policy details.
Deleting a policy
Choose Delete policy from the actions menu and confirm at the dialog.
When a policy changes
- Adding a data type, for example adding Drive to a mail-only policy, starts a bulk backup of the new type. Existing types carry on incrementally.
- Removing a data type means that data is purged once the previous policy's retention period expires.
- Changing the storage bucket does not restart backups. Data already backed up stays in the bucket it was written to, and restoration reads the bucket from the backup itself. See Creating and editing a backup policy.
Common questions
I cannot save a policy
See Troubleshooting Backup Policy Errors.
Assigning a policy
Creating a policy does not protect anything on its own. It has to be assigned. Assigning Backup policies to organisational units, Smart Teams and shared drives has moved into the modern Automate interface, on the Assign policies page. It works the same as before. See Assign a backup policy.