Azure Backup vaults – New era of snapshot backups – backup every 1h

If you think about backup in Azure – probably you think about Recovery Services vaults. But there is currently a new possibility named Backup vaults. Of the box, you can configure backups every 4 hours. Currently, it supports:

VM Managed Disk Backups (Snapshot)

Azure Blobs

Azure PostgreSQL Databases

You can create ad-hock backups using portal or PowerShell. If you using PowerShell and see an error like:

Backup-AzDataProtectionBackupInstanceAdhoc : Input provided for the call is invalid

Probably you are using wrong parameter for -BackupRuleOptionRuleName it should be:

-BackupRuleOptionRuleName “BackupDaily”

Or

-BackupRuleOptionRuleName “Daily”

Note “Default” like mentioned in Documentation.

Here is a code that can be implemented in the Azure function to do backup every 1h.

param($Timer)

Install-Module -Name Az.ResourceGraph -Force

Import-Module -Name Az.DataProtection

Import-Module -Name Az.ResourceGraph

Get-InstalledModule

$VaultBackupRG=”xxxx”

$VaultBackupName=”xxxx”

$AzureFunctionAppID = “xxxx”

$AzureFunctionAppPwd = “xxxx”

$TennantId = “xxxx”

$SubscrybtionDev=”xxxx”

$User = $AzureFunctionAppID

$Pass = ConvertTo-SecureString -String $AzureFunctionAppPwd -AsPlainText -Force

$Credential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential $User,$Pass

# Get the current universal time in the default string format.

Write-Host “Logging to Azure….”

Connect-AzAccount -Credential $Credential -TenantId $TennantId -ServicePrincipal

Set-AzContext -Subscription $SubscrybtionDev

Write-Host “Logged In and Starting Processing….”

$AllInstances = Get-AzDataProtectionBackupInstance -ResourceGroupName $VaultBackupRG -VaultName $VaultBackupName

Backup-AzDataProtectionBackupInstanceAdhoc -BackupInstanceName $AllInstances[0].Name -ResourceGroupName $VaultBackupRG -VaultName $VaultBackupName -BackupRuleOptionRuleName “BackupDaily”

$job = Search-AzDataProtectionJobInAzGraph -Subscription $SubscrybtionDev -ResourceGroup $VaultBackupRG -Vault $VaultBackupName -DatasourceType AzureDisk -Operation OnDemandBackup

Write-Host “Snapshots:”

Write-Host $job