Cannot delete Recovery Services vault

Question

Hi, 

I have got an empty Recovery Services vault (not items there) which I cannot delete. It was used for Azure SQL Database backup. The SQL Server was also deleted.

I am getting this error:

Vault cannot be deleted as there are existing resources within the vault. Please delete any replicated items, registered servers, Hyper-V sites (Used for Site Recovery), policy associations for System Center VMM clouds (Used for Site Recovery) and then delete the vault.

I tried to check also additional resources through https://resources.azure.com but there are no any additional items in my Recovery Services vault.

How can I delete it?

Thanks

Answer 1

Hi,

Thank you for contacting us!

Please follow the steps in the article below to delete the recovery services vault.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-azure-delete-vault

Hope that helps!

Best Regards

Sadiqh Ahmed
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Answer 2

Dear Sadiqh,

Thank you for your reply. Actually, I forgot to mention that I followed those steps already. See the screen shot, there are ZEROs everewhere.

What would be the further steps?

Regards, Vaclav.



Answer 3

Can you check if there are any Replication or Backup Policies configured?

Answer 4

Sure. Please, see the attached images. I don't think there are any policies.

Is there any PowerShell script I could run which would display all dependencies?

Any other options?

Answer 5

You may try - The PowerShell cmdlet to delete a recovery vault is “Remove-AzureRmRecoveryServicesVault -Vault <Vault-Object>”. To get the vault object using Get-AzureRmRecoveryServicesVault.

Users must exercise due caution while using the “Remove-AzureRmRecoveryServicesVault” cmdlet as this will delete the vault irrespective of the contents of the vault. So if there are replicating machines or backed up machines etc. in the vault, these will be lost. Additionally if there were on-premises assets that were registered to the vault, these would need to be manually cleaned up because clean up cannot be triggered from the vault once it has been deleted.

Regards,

Sadiqh

Answer 6

Thank you Sadiqh, I will investigate this and update accordingly.

Sincerely, Vaclav.

Answer 7

Did you find a solution to this?  I have the exact same issue.  SQL backup archive, but SQL instance now deleted. Everything is zero.  I have also tried the Powershell. :-(

Answer 8

@Robert J Head, reach out to Azure Support by using the URL at  http://aka.ms/getazuresupport.

Answer 9

Thanks for your reply.  Unfortunately that is something I will have to pay for as I don't have a support contract.  I'm not going to pay to get this fixed, I'll just live with it.  Any other suggestions most welcome.  Thanks again.

Answer 10

I have the same problem with a recovery-service-vault that can't be deleted. If I use the Powershell Command to delete the vault I get the following error:

  Remove-AzureRmRecoveryServicesVault : Operation Failed.
  ErrorCode: ServiceResourceNotEmpty
  Message: Vault cannot be deleted as there are existing resources within the vault.

But as Sadiqh mentioned, the vault should also be deleted if it is not empty. Any advice and suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Answer 11

This problem seems to come from setting up long term retention on an SQL server (one of that causes anyway).

In order to remove the recovery vault(s), assuming they are already completely empty I was able to use the following Powershell script:

Login-AzureRmAccount

$vault = Get-AzureRmRecoveryServicesVault -Name <vaultname>
Set-AzureRmRecoveryServicesVaultContext -Vault $vault

$containers = Get-AzureRmRecoveryServicesBackupContainer -ContainerType AzureSQL -FriendlyName $vault.Name
ForEach ($container in $containers) {
    $items = Get-AzureRmRecoveryServicesBackupItem -container $container -WorkloadType AzureSQLDatabase
    ForEach ($item in $items) {
        Disable-AzureRmRecoveryServicesBackupProtection -item $item -RemoveRecoveryPoints -ea SilentlyContinue
    }
    Unregister-AzureRmRecoveryServicesBackupContainer -Container $container
}
Remove-AzureRmRecoveryServicesVault -Vault $vault

Hope this helps.  Again make sure the vault is completely empty and you have retrieved all data you wish to keep.

Answer 12

Thanks for sharing this information. This would be helpful to other community members.

Answer 13

This solution has worked perfectly for me! Thanks!

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Felipe de Assis MCITP SQL Server 05/08: Database Administrator