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While testing Azure Backup I setup recovery for a VM's Disk. Both the Disk, the VM as a whole and recovery vault have since been deleted. A single Restore Point Collection with a single failed restope point persists and cannot be deleted by any means.
I have tried deleting the Resource Group (fails), recreating a disk with the same name in the same RG and region (did not help), using the Revoke Access API call (cannot find resource), force deleting through PowerShell (failed) and going through multiple trouble shooting guides.
Any assistance is appreciated.
Hello @Konstantinos Kyritsis Thank you for reaching out to us on Microsoft Q&A platform. Happy to help!
From the details provided I understand that you had set up recovery for your VM disk and later the whole recovery vault was deleted. However, there is one restore point that appears to be orphan as it is not getting deleted.
FYI: The ideal process to delete recovery vault is to delete all the protected instances within the vault and then verify if there are any left over items to avoid this kind of situations.
Per error "Failed to delete restore point collection", I would recommend following the post by Priyanka here - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/885550/restore-point-collection-cannot-be-deleted
Hope this helps!
@SadiqhAhmed-MSFT Thank you for your suggestion. Unfortunately, I have already tried the solution proposed but it did not help, as the restore point still blocks the deletion of the resource group.
@SadiqhAhmed-MSFT I have estabilished contact with support and they are helping me with the issue, so you do not need to look at it further, seems that it cannot be deleted by normal means and a specialist must look at it. Thank you for your help here.
@Konstantinos Kyritsis Thanks for the update. Appreciate if you could share the solution with the community once the issue is resolved.
@Konstantinos Kyritsis Any update you could provide here?
@Konstantinos Kyritsis Thanks for sharing it. Appreciate your patience throughout the conversation.
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@SadiqhAhmed-MSFT Hello, of course, after sererval days, I was able to delete the resource. My best understanding (but not clearly confirmed) is that that no additional actions were required by the support team as an automatically generated underlying SAS expired allowing the deletion of the resource.