Do we have any option to get the azure vm backup policy associated clients

Question

Hi Team,

Do we have any option to get the azure vm backup policy associated clients using the powershell cmds

we need to reassociate the policy to another policy.. its around 100+vms.

we have command to reassociate to another policy.. but we need to get the vm details, which is already associated in vm policyA. so that we can reassociate to Policy B.

Answer 1

Hi @Siva

You can use azure cli to manage Azure backup. It has commands to [list items associated to a backup policy(https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/backup/policy?view=azure-cli-latest#az-backup-policy-list-associated-items) and the backup item set-policy command enables you to change the policy associated with a backup item.

For example you can get a list of associated items for a backup policy:

   az backup policy list-associated-items --name MyBackupPolicy --resource-group MyResourceGroup --vault-name MyVault --backup-management-type AzureIaasVM  

And change the associated backup policy:

   az backup item set-policy --vault-name MyVault --resource-group MyResourceGroup --container-name MyContainer --name MyItem --policy-name MyPolicy --backup-management-type AzureIaasVM  

Alternatively you can use PowerShell:

Get the items for a container in Azure Backup: Get-AzRecoveryServicesBackupItem

Change the policy assigned to a backup item: Enable-AzRecoveryServicesBackupProtection