Set-AzRecoveryServicesVaultContext -Vault $targetVault

$targetVault = Get-AzRecoveryServicesVault -ResourceGroupName 'rg-p-recovery_vaults' -Name 'rsv-p-servers' The configure protection operation overrides the previous settings, they will not be cumulative. Using PowerShellĮnsure you're using Azure PowerShell version 3.7.0 or higher.ĭuring the configure protection operation, you need to specify the disk list setting with an inclusion / exclusion parameter, giving the LUN numbers of the disks to be included or excluded in the backup. When you execute these commands, you'll see 'diskExclusionProperties': null. az backup protection enable-for-vm -resource-group So you can configure backup of your Azure VM with OS disk, and exclude all the data disks attached to it. Currently, the ability to configure selective disks backup through the Azure portal is limited to the Backup OS Disk only option. Using a script, you can include or exclude data disks using their LUN numbers. Using PowerShell or Azure CLI, you can configure selective disk backup of the Azure VM. For example, if you back up your databases or data using a different workload backup solution and you want to use Azure VM level backup for the rest of the data or disks to build an efficient and robust system using the best capabilities available. If you have other backup solutions for part of your VM or data.If you have critical data to be backed up in only one disk, or a subset of the disks and don’t want to back up the rest of the disks attached to a VM to minimize the backup storage costs.This solution is useful particularly in the following scenarios: This applies to both restore from snapshots and the vault. This further allows you to have a subset of disks restored from the given recovery point during the restore operation. Each recovery point contains only the disks that are included in the backup operation. This provides an efficient and cost-effective solution for your backup and restore needs. Now, using the selective disks backup and restore functionality, you can back up a subset of the data disks in a VM. Azure Backup supports backing up all the disks (operating system and data) in a VM together using the virtual machine backup solution.

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