How to move vm disk with Azure back up restorepoint across subscriptions?

Elisha George 151 Reputation points
2022-03-21T04:55:08.437+00:00

Unable to move resources that are being backed up as part of a Azure Backup Job

Understand that we can move the VM disk with Azure Backup restore point. What is the safest way to go about?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/management/move-limitations/virtual-machines-move-limitations?tabs=azure-cli#virtual-machines-with-azure-backup

What does the document mean when it says 'Delete this resource. This operation deletes only the instant recovery points, not the backed-up data in the vault.'?

What happens if I delete my recovery point? Will I be able to restore?185045-backup.png

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  1. Prrudram-MSFT 28,281 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator
    2022-03-21T08:37:14.107+00:00

    Hello @Elisha George ,

    Thank you for reaching out to the Microsoft Q&A platform. Happy to answer your question.
    I understand that you are trying to move a disk of a VM that is currently being backed up under azure backup. The blocker here is there are azure backup created snapshots(Instant restore points and recovery points associated with the particular disk.

    The solution to follow here is to temporarily stop the backups by retaining the data, you can look at the steps in the following document backup-azure-manage-vms
    Next you need to delete the restore point collection that is configured as part of the backup. Follow below instructions,

    Clean up restore point collection from Azure portal
    To manually clear the restore points collection, which isn’t cleared because of the lock on the resource group, try the following steps:
    1.Sign in to the Azure portal.
    2.On the Hub menu, select All resources, select the Resource group with the following format AzureBackupRG_<Geo>_<number> where your VM is located.
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    3.Select Resource group, the Overview pane is displayed.

    4.Select Show hidden types option to display all the hidden resources. Select the restore point collections with the following format AzureBackupRG__.
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    5.Select Delete to clean the restore point collection.
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    Note: If you stop backups and delete the recovery points, you will never be able to restore the disk/VM from the older backups as they will be permanently deleted from the recovery services vault.
    For details on the impact of backup deletion, you can refer to the following document manage-recovery-points

    Please "Accept as Answer" and Upvote if any of the above helped to help others in the community looking for remediation for similar issues.

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