List expiration of "backed up" data in Vault Recovery Services

Question

I have an old "Recovery Services vault" that is set to "Enable Always-on soft delete" that was created with GRS replication and that through the portal I see that it is consuming 53 GB with a total of 8 "Backup Items", all of them as "Azure Backup Agent". When I check the details through the portal, the "Last backup start time" varies up to the year 2023 at most, after that there were no more backups because these VMs were deleted at that time.

Since it is marked as "do not delete", I can no longer simply delete it and I am also unable to purge the existing data.

In this set of 4 servers that originate the 8 backup items, I even had 1 "very old" machine that was still the classic profile.

I saw that all Policy Backups were also deleted

Other informations:

What I need:

To be able to view the detailed backups, with the consumption in GBytes for each item and also what the retention date is.

I need to try to adjust this policy to force a purge of this data within 7 or 14 days, I don't know if this is possible, since the data has already been backed up and the servers no longer exist.

Answer 1

Hi Marcos Aparecido de Lima

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Open Control Panel on the server.

Navigate to Programs and then select Programs and Features.

Look for "Azure Backup agent" in the list of installed programs.

Right-click on it and select Uninstall.

Log in to the Azure Portal.

Navigate to the Recovery Services Vault

In the Recovery Services Vault, go to Backup Items and select Azure Backup Agent.

click on Stop Protection

To remove the backups completely, choose Delete backup data.

If you have any further queries, do let us know.

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