Abstract: A backup policy specifies one or more given databases to be backed up. Servers dynamically host databases including the given databases. A given server from which each given database or a replica thereof is to be backed up is selected or chosen, by evaluating a predetermined backup strategy specified by the backup policy against a current state of the servers and the databases. The predetermined backup strategy governs how a given server is to be chosen from which each given database or a replica thereof is to be backed up. The backup policy does not particularly specify from which of the servers the given databases or replicas thereof are to be backed up. Each given database or a replica thereof is backed up from the given server selected or chosen for the given database.