Azure VM Backup

AzureUser-9588 151 Reputation points

Is it possible to backup an Azure VM to a different subscription which is kind of isolated? Not looking to restore into a different subscription, want to backup to a different subscription. Any workarounds to accomplish this?

  1. Olga Os - MSFT 5,966 Reputation points • Microsoft Employee

    Hello AzureUser-9588,

    Welcome to the MS Q&A Forum.

    Yes, it is possible to backup an Azure VM to a different subscription that is isolated. One way to accomplish this is to use Azure Backup to backup the VM to a Recovery Services vault.

    Cross Subscription Restore now allows you to restore Azure VMs from a recovery point in one subscription to another under tenant as per Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC) rules. Cross Subscription Restore is unsupported from snapshots and secondary region restores.

    Hope above answers your question and concern. Let me know if you need additional assistance. If the answer was helpful, please accept it and complete the quality survey so that others can find a solution.

    Sincerely,
    Olga Os.

  2. AzureUser-9588 151 Reputation points

    ,- Thanks for your response. But, does it not required to have the VM and the backup vault to be in the same subscription? I see an article which says that - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/962676/azure-recovery-vault-shared-across-subscriptions-i

    Can you point me to documents which can help me to take backup of an Azure VM to a different subscription that is isolated?

  3. Sadiqh Ahmed 49,571 Reputation points • Microsoft External Staff • Moderator

    @AzureUser-9588 Just checking in to see if you got a chance to see the previous response and if it helped, I would request you to "Accept Answer and Upvote" so that the relevancy of this post will improve when anyone in the community search for a similar query.

  4. Sadiqh Ahmed 49,571 Reputation points • Microsoft External Staff • Moderator

    @AzureUser-9588 We haven't heard back from you. Please reply if you have any questions in this matter and we will gladly continue the discussion.

  5. AzureUser-9588 151 Reputation points

    @Sadiqh Ahmed
    @OPlease clarify on this,

    Does it not required to have the VM and the backup vault to be in the same subscription? I see an article which says that - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/962676/azure-recovery-vault-shared-across-subscriptions-i

    Can you point me to documents which can help me to take backup of an Azure VM to a different subscription that is isolated?

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  1. Akarsh Prabhu 1 Reputation point • Microsoft Employee
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  2. Tech-Hyd-1989 5,821 Reputation points

    Hi @AzureUser-9588

    As you may be aware that azure VM is identified with its unique instance ID in a subscription, hence VM backup can only be done in its own subscription. It is not possible to backup a VM to another subscription. This is documented in the azure VM backup support matrix https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-support-matrix-iaas#supported-backup-actions
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    Another workaround is to use Azure Site Recovery to maintain a replica of the VM in a different subscription. However the replication approach is different from backup. You may want to take a look at the document link below for details

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/azure-to-azure-architecture

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/azure-to-azure-tutorial-enable-replication

    If this response has answered your query, please 'Accept as Answer'

    1. Tech-Hyd-1989 5,821 Reputation points

      More details on replication of an azure VM

      Can I replicate VMs to another subscription?

      Yes, you can replicate Azure VMs to any subscription within the same Azure AD tenant. When you enable disaster recovery for VMs, by default the target subscription shown is that of the source VM. You can modify the target subscription, and other settings (such as resource group and virtual network), are populated automatically from the selected subscription.

      https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/azure-to-azure-common-questions#can-i-replicate-vms-to-another-subscription

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