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List expiration of "backed up" data in Vault Recovery Services
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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
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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.
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Pranay Reddy Madireddy 1,480 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor2025-01-17T22:47:35.7833333+00:00 Welcome to the Microsoft Q&A Platform! Thank you for asking your question here.
Since the vault has "Always-on soft delete" enabled, you cannot directly delete or purge backup items. Instead, you will need to wait for the soft delete retention period to expire, which generally lasts for an additional 14 days after the items are deleted.
Go to your Recovery Services vault in the Azure portal.
Click on "Backup policies" to see if you can change the current policy or create a new one with shorter retention periods, like 7 or 14 days, for future backups.
If you have any further queries, do let us know.
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