6 days of backups are gone with no errors in the event logs
Server 2022 all updates current. For some reason, after vacation, I came in and checked the backups. We have a local (first image) and cloud backup (second image) Looks like backups stopped on the 13th and started again on the 20th. I find nothing in…
Retain forever & Retain as per policy options are only available on an immutable RSV
Hi Team, I am unable to get the "Retain forever" & "Retain as per policy" options in backup vault with non-immutable vaults. Are these options being only available for immutable vaults only. If yes, do we have a document for the…
How can I script the creation of an Enhanced Azure Recovery Services backup policy for Virtual Machines?
I have over 70 backup recovery services vaults and I'm trying to mass create a new Enhanced Azure Virtual Machine Backup policy[1]. Doing this through Azure Portal works great, but is quite tedious. We've looked into using powershell to script this out,…
DPM 2022 no clearing in the database
HI, everyone, encountered such a problem as slow execution of tasks, I have a suspicion that the database records are not cleared correctly, checked it with this query how can this be fixed? use DPMDB --you will need to put in your DPMDB name…
Azure Backup, Delete Old Drive
Hello, We use Azure Backup to backup our on premise server. Recently we got a new server and switched drive letters. I am unable to view or delete the old drive letter from Azure backup. The retention policies are not being honoured because the drive…
Error when Creating Backup Policies: Invalid NO_PARAM Value
Encountering the following error during Bicep deployment for creating Backup Policies: "details": [ { "code": "UserErrorInvalidRequestParameter", "message": "Parameter NO_PARAM in request…
How to fix MABS console crash while selecting OPTION to Configure SMTP in MABS console.
Hello Everyone, We have a Azure MABS Console of version 14.0.46.0, Earlier when we have configured SMTP in this server for receiving the alerts through email notification and it was working perfectly. But Now the email notification is been stopped from a…
Error: Failed to download the Vault Credentials file.
Hi, I am working on a few virtual machines. I have successfully uninstalled and reinstalled MARS on 3 other machines. I am working on the last machine, I was able to uninstall it, but when I try download the vault credentials to register the vault - I…
All backups fail with "replica is inconsistent"
Backups are... bare metal and vmware guests. All fail with the error "replica is inconsistent". Event log for a vmware backup: The replica of <server> on Mvcenter> is inconsistent with the protected data source. All protection…
How to stop "DPM: Resolved alert" ?
Hello All, We have configured alerts for backup failure. whenever there is a failure, we will get a ServiceNow incident. But the problem is, We are getting incident for "DPM: Resolved alert" as well. Unfortunately I did not find any option in…
Azure DB for PostgreSQL Flexible Server - Reporting for Backup Restore Points
Hello, Building a product that will scale out Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server instances and for which backup availability is a stringent requirement, that I need reporting automation & alerting for. On my Flexible Server instance at present, all…
Unable to move Disk from one subscription to another subcription
Hi, I'm unable to move disk from one subscription to another subscription. It is giving below error msg. ResourceMoveProviderValidationFailed","message":"Resource move validation failed. Please see details. Diagnostic…
UserErrorOpeningSQLConnection
Hello all , I am trying to enable SQL backup on Azure VM but discovery fails with message "UserErrorOpeningSQLConnection" . What i have checked windows fw is disabled and no other fw is in place option "allow remote connections "…
How do i backup all resources in a resource group that hosts an app service and its related resources to a backup vault?
Hi, I have a app service that is not very much in use. i would like to back up the app service and its related resource to our backup vault in case we may need to restore it in future. The goal is to backup everything and delete this resource group and…
Azure Recovery Services Vault no restore option?
Hello, we have a local MABS Server and some Backup files on it, now we want to test if we can do a recovery in the Azure Portal without the MABS Server. In the Recovery Services Vault -> Backup Items Section i can select the type of data (Azure…
Remove azure fileshare with RSV backup enabled via terraform gives error of share or snapshots may have active leases
I have two recovery service vaults in two different regions, south east asia and west europe. But I only get this error message when using terraform to destroy the azure fileshare that has snapshot inside for SEA only. I did the same testing for…
Azure backups expiring in wrong order
I like to keep only the latest restore point of an Azure VM. Right now I have two left: One from 10/10/2024 with the expiring time 10/15/2024, 9:59:05 PM. Another from 8/19/2024 with no expiring time. I deleted the VM and restored it from the then latest…
Cross subscription Azure SQL VM database restore using Azure CLI
Hi , Anyone tried restoring sql database running on Azure SQL VM and backed up via Azure Backup . Via recovery vault , we are able to perform the cross subscription restore but not using the Azure CLI . All desired permissions in place as documented by…
How to delete a recovery services vault which has a failed backup job and the storage account of the job has already been deleted?
I need to delete this in order to delete the recovery services vault. Could you tell me how I can do so?
How to troubleshoot if the MARS Agent is unable to initialize a backup storage location due to unresponsive VDS service
Microsoft Azure Recovery Services Agent was unable to initialize a backup storage location with Microsoft Azure Backup. Please try the operation again. If the issue persists contact Microsoft support.