# Configure cross-region or cross-cloud backup copies for Air Gap Protect storage

Cross-region and cross-cloud backup copies protect you from region and cloud failures. Cross-cloud copies are important for business-critical data that requires a high level of resiliency.

Considerations

- Data movement across regions and/or across clouds incurs egress charges from your cloud service provider to your account or subscription with the provider. For details, see your cloud service provider's pricing information.
- Latency and throughput can be affected by the distance between regions and the cross-cloud network path.

To configure cross-region or cross-cloud backup copies for Air Gap Protect storage, follow these steps:

1. From the Command Center navigation pane, go to Manage > Plans.

2. Click Create plan, and then select Backup.

3. Leave Create a new plan selected, and enter a name for the backup plan.

4. Click Next.

5. Click Add copy to specify storage for the primary (source) backups.

6. Leave Primary as the name or enter a new name for the backup copy, and then select or create Air Gap Protect storage with the following settings:

   - MediaAgent: Select or create a MediaAgent that's in the same region as the storage.

   - Storage class: Select Frequent access.

7. Specify retention rules.

   You can use extended retention rules to retain specific full backups for a longer time.

8. Click Save.

9. To create a cross-region copy, enable the Multi-region toggle key, click Add copies for another region, and then specify settings for the backup copies to that region.

10. To create cross-cloud copies, click Add copy for any region, and then specify settings for the backup copies to that cloud service provider, including a Storage class of Infrequent access.

11. Click Submit.

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