[SOLVED] How to change the VM to use a new recovery services vault?

How to change the VM to use a new recovery services vault?

Current Setup:

Resource Group RG_VM contains VM1.
Resource Group RG_Recovery contains RSV1.
VM1 is protected using RSV1.

Desired Setup:

Create RSV2 in RG_VM.
Backup VM1 in RSV2.

Steps Taken:

In RSV1, stopped the backup and retained the data to avoid losing existing backups.
Attempted to add VM1 to RSV2, but encountered an issue because VM1's backup is still associated with RSV1.

Question: How can I achieve this setup without losing the data in RSV1? Is it absolutely necessary to move VM1 to a different resource group in order to add it to a new RSV?

Solution

Change the VM to use a new recovery services vault without lossing data.

I agree with the point you mentioned that azure doesnt support the same VM1 connecting with 2 recovery services & you need to move the VM to new temp RG.

Inorder to save the already saved backup data from RSV1 and connect the VM1 with RSV2 we need to follow the steps mentioned below

Intial setup:

Create Resource Group RG_VM whichi contains VM1
Create Resource Group RG_Recovery contains RSV1
VM1 is protected using RSV1.
Backup enabled and initial backup done

Now the requirement is stopping the backup enabled in RSV1

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Now in order to achive the requirement for linking up RSV2 with VM1 follow the steps below

Create the RSV2 in Resource Group RG_VM
Create Resource Group RG_VM_temp which will be used in future steps

Now move the VM1 to temperory resource group name which we just created above using the command

az resource move --destination-group RG_VM_Temp --ids $(az vm show --resource-group RG_VM --name VM1 --query id -o tsv)

This command will move the VM1 to new resource group we created RG_VM_temp

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Now go to the resource group RG_VM and check of avaialblity of VM for RSV2

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Once this done we connection with VM1 with RSV2 you can move the VM back to orginal resource group

az resource move --destination-group RG_VM --ids $(az vm show --resource-group RG_VM_Temp --name VM1 --query id -o tsv)

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Refer:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-azure-backup-faq

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/resource?view=azure-cli-latest#az-resource-move