How to delete DPM Backups from the Azure Service Recovery Vault

Reppner, Mike 0

Hi,

i have a OnPrem DPM Server which is connected with a Azure Recovery Service Vault.

From the DPM i backup some OnPrem Servers to the Azure Recovery Service Vault.

Currently i see some duplicated entrys and some entrys from old servers which no longer exists in the Azure Recovery Service Vault.

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On the View details window i can see Disk protection & Online protection is not enabled.

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I am not able to delete this entrys from Azure.

How can i do that over powershell?

Luis Arias 7,131 Reputation points

2024-09-17T16:37:37.8333333+00:00

Hi please follow this thread https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/842212/how-to-delete-a-backup-item-in-a-recovery-service

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Pranay Reddy Madireddy 440 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2024-10-08T17:47:36.45+00:00

Hi Reppner, Mike
If the issue was resolved by support, could you please share the solution? This would help other community members as well.
Regards,
Pranay

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Amardeep Saini 1,255 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2024-09-18T10:19:32.6733333+00:00
@Reppner, Mike Thank you for contacting us on Microsoft Q&A platform. Happy to help!

As per the screen shot you shared it seems there is a sync issue on your DPM server due to which it is not updating the correct information on Azure Portal.

Request you to follow below mentioned steps and see if it resolves the issue or not.

Make sure there is no online backup job is running on DPM server.

Go to Run -> Services.msc and Stop the service "Microsoft Azure Recovery Services Management Agent" and "Microsoft Azure Recovery Services Agent."

Go to <Program Files>\Microsoft Azure Recovery Services Agent. You will see a checkpoint folder.

Rename checkpoint folder to checkpoint_old.

Start both the services (mentioned in step 2) again.

Please wait for 30 min and let us know if portal gets the latest update from on-prem server.

If the above steps do not resolve the issue, then request you to please check gatewayprovider.log file as there might be some errors which is causing the sync to fail. So please share it here so that we can further help you on it.

Please don't forget to close up the thread here by upvoting and accept it as an answer if it is helpful.
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Reppner, Mike 0 Reputation points

2024-09-18T10:40:07.04+00:00

I will try and let you know.

Thanks

Reppner, Mike 0 Reputation points

2024-09-19T12:08:36.6833333+00:00

Hi,

i stopped the services and i renamed the folder but still same situation.

I have still duplicated server in the Backup items (DPM) Console in Azure.

Amardeep Saini 1,255 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2024-09-19T12:35:10.54+00:00

@Reppner, Mike Please let me know if you see any data sources in inactive protection on DPM console in Protection tab?

Also, if you could check the check and share the gatewayprovider.log which will be located at C:\Program Files\Microsoft Azure Recovery Services Agent\Temp as you will see some errors retailed to sync failure.

Reppner, Mike 0 Reputation points

2024-09-19T14:40:14.04+00:00

Hi,

i have no inactive protections visible in the console.

Attached i have collect some warning and error messages from the gatewayprovider.log

gatewayprovider_examples.txt

Amardeep Saini 1,255 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2024-09-19T15:17:33.82+00:00

@Reppner, Mike Thanks for sharing the logs.

Need to check with you if you have any data sources which is currently getting backed up to tapes. I am asking this question as from the logs it seems you have few data sources which might be getting backed up directly to tapes and that can create issue with the sync on Azure Portal.

The same is also mentioned on below mentioned article.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center/dpm/monitor-dpm?view=sc-dpm-2022#back-up-items-in-recovery-services-vault

Currently, data sources backed up directly to tape don't appear in the Recovery Services vault. To make them appear, we recommend you to back up the data to disk for a short term and then to Azure or tape as required.

Reppner, Mike 0 Reputation points

2024-09-25T10:00:41.95+00:00

Hi today i disabled the Backup to tape as you recommended. I will check tomorrow if the duplicated entrys in Azure are gone or if the still exists.

SadiqhAhmed-MSFT 46,206 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2024-09-25T21:49:33.7633333+00:00

@Reppner, Mike Thanks for the update. Please keep us posted on the status of the issue.

Reppner, Mike 0 Reputation points

2024-09-26T10:49:54.7366667+00:00

Today i checked the Azure Portal and still i can see duplicated and old entrys.

SadiqhAhmed-MSFT 46,206 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2024-09-27T16:51:49.0466667+00:00

@Reppner, Mike IMO, this can be better handled through a support case. Recommend you reach out to Azure technical support team raising a support request. The ticket enables you to work closely with the support engineers and get a quick resolution to your issue.

Here is the link - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-portal/supportability/how-to-create-azure-support-request to create support case.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/plans/

Reppner, Mike 0 Reputation points

2024-10-01T15:20:01.66+00:00

I created a support ticket. Hopefully they can help me.

Thank you for your time.
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