Azure Backup Exclude Specific Datadisk/osdisk

karthik pandya 20 Reputation points
2025-03-05T01:28:49.77+00:00

Is possible to exclude specific disks from a VM when enabling Azure Backup?

Can we exclude Os disk?

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  1. Naveena Patlolla 975 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
    2025-03-05T01:31:47.7033333+00:00

    Hi karthik pandya
    Welcome to Microsoft Q&A Forum, thank you for posting your query here!

    Azure Backup supports backing up all the disks (operating system and data) in a VM together using the virtual machine backup solution. Now, using the selective disks backup and restore functionality, you can back up a subset of the data disks in a VM.

     

      You cannot exclude the OS disk—only data disks can be excluded. 

    Please refer to MS doc 

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/selective-disk-backup-restore
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