Recovery Services vault cannot be deleted. Azure portal menu is not allowing to disable soft delete. As it is read only now

Question

**Az104 lab 10 Have created 2 backup items in Recovery Services Vault but unable to remove/delete it

• Azure VM & Azure Backup Agent**

• On trying to remove or delete these items; since soft-delete is enabled (Say for 14 days). Facing error on Manual as well as PowerShell Delete procedures.

• PowerShell seems to be not updated with Current menu options in Azure Portal. I used the below; get the status as success but VM and Agent still appear in my subscription.

Below is the PS I used

Undo-AzRecoveryServicesBackupItemDeletion -Item $myBKpItem -VaultId $myVaultID -Force


Disable-AzRecoveryServicesBackupProtection -Item $myBkpItem -RemoveRecoveryPoints -VaultId $myVaultID -Force

And ms-learn docs the below PowerShell seems to not work

Set-AzRecoveryServicesVaultProperty -VaultId $myVaultID -SoftDeleteFeatureState Disable

It gives a result of Bad Request saying -SoftDeleteFeatureState does not exists for Set-AzRecoveryServicesVaultProperty

What may be possible ways to delete soft-delete enabled backup VM on the recovery services vault.

Answer 1

So I replicated your problem as best as I could, this is what I did:

Create RSV, add VM into RSV with soft delete enabled, then deleted and had the VM in soft delete state. I went into the RSV and manually clicked undelete, which put the VM back into the RSV and then ran the below turn off soft delete:

Set-AzRecoveryServicesVaultProperty -VaultId "myvault" -SoftDeleteFeatureState Disable

I then ran the below to remove the VM from the vault and remove any associated backup data:

# VARIABLES
[String]$rgBackup = ""
[String]$vaultName = ""
# $vaultId = "[RECOVERY SERVICE VAULT ID]"

$vault = Get-AzRecoveryServicesVault -ResourceGroupName $rgBackup -Name $vaultName

$containerBackup = Get-AzRecoveryServicesBackupItem -BackupManagementType    AzureVM -WorkloadType AzureVM -VaultId $vault.ID | Where-Object {$_.DeleteState -eq "NotDeleted"}

$containerbackup| ForEach-Object -ThrottleLimit 10 -Parallel {write-host -fore green $_.name; Disable-AzRecoveryServicesBackupProtection -Item $_ -VaultId "" -RemoveRecoveryPoints -Force -Verbose} 

Write-Host "********************************* FIN *********************************************************"

And then I ran the below to force delete the RSV:

az backup vault delete --name --resource-group --force

You should just need to update RG and RSV names and IDs and hopefully it should work for you.