Deleting snapshots in a locked resouce group.

[MattMattMatt]

Hello,

A similar question was asked a while back (veeam-backup-for-azure-f59/disk-snapsho ... 77576.html), but I've not been able to find a more recent answer... Here is the situation:

* I place my Azure VMs into Resource Groups and then lock those groups against deletion.
* I also use Veeam for Azure to take snapshots of them.

...but because the Resource Group is locked, Veeam is unable to delete the snapshots, so they just keep building up! This seems to leave me the tricky decision of either:

* Don't protect my VMs against accidental deletion (or)
* Don't back them up

Am I missing something?

Thanks!

[Mildur]

Hi Matt

Sounds right to me. Azure locked resource groups protects the resources against deletion.

As stated in the other post, we will think about it what we can do about it. But there is no ETA yet.

As a workaround, you could use Veeam Agent to protect such VM.

Thanks
Fabian

[b.vanhaastrecht]

Hi, bumping this. There seem to be no solution implemented for this.

Status: 409 (Conflict)
ErrorCode: ScopeLocked

What can we do about this?

[Mildur]

Hi Bastiaan,

When you protect your VM with SLA Policies, you can store snapshots in a different resource group.
I believe this setup should allow you to delete snapshots, as you can apply Resource Locks to the VM resource group while leaving the snapshot resource group unlocked. Unfortunately, I can’t test it myself at the moment.

Best,
Fabian

[b.vanhaastrecht]

Hi Mildur, thanks, I just found that option to referred in this post: veeam-backup-for-azure-f59/disk-snapsho ... 77576.html

Unfortunately it's only availeble in SLA based policies, that I dont understand. Whats the reason behind this?

[Vitaliy S.]

Bastiaan, please take a look at my answer to your question in the thread you've referenced.