How delete the left azure vm restore point, the vm and recovery service vault is already deleted

Hello Amit Chakarvarty,

Thank you for reaching out to the Microsoft Q&A forum.  

When investigated it looks like you’ve got an orphaned Azure Backup restore point sitting out there, even though the VM and vault show as deleted. What’s happening is that Azure Backup’s soft-delete (and the dependency chain) is holding onto those recovery points, so the “Delete” operation never actually goes through. Here’s a quick way to clean it up without needing an Azure Support ticket:

Re-create (or identify) the Recovery Services vault

• If you’ve already deleted the vault, spin up a new one in the same resource group and region using the exact same name. This gives you something you can target with PowerShell/CLI.

Connect & set context

Connect-AzAccount
Select-AzSubscription -SubscriptionName "YourSubscription"
$vault = Get-AzRecoveryServicesVault -Name "YourVaultName"
Set-AzRecoveryServicesVaultContext -Vault $vault

Find the orphaned backup item & recovery points

# List containers for Azure VMs
$containers = Get-AzRecoveryServicesBackupContainer -ContainerType AzureVM
# (filter by the old VM name or GUID if you still see it)
$item = Get-AzRecoveryServicesBackupItem -Container $containers |
        Where-Object { $_.FriendlyName -like "*myvm*" }
 
# List recovery points for that item
$rps = Get-AzRecoveryServicesBackupRecoveryPoint -Item $item

Purge all recovery points

# This will delete every recovery point for that item
foreach($rp in $rps) {
  Remove-AzRecoveryServicesBackupRecoveryPoint -Item $item `
    -RecoveryPoint $rp -Force -Verbose
}

Stop protection & delete the (now-empty) backup item

Disable-AzRecoveryServicesBackupProtection `
  -Item $item -RemoveRecoveryPoints -Force

Finally, delete the vault itself

Remove-AzRecoveryServicesVault -Vault $vault -Force

Once that’s done, the orphaned restore point collection will be gone, and you’ll stop incurring charges.

Let me know if any further queries - feel free to reach out!

Documents Referred:

• Delete backup data for an Azure VM (stop protection & remove recovery points): https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/backup/backup-azure-manage-vms#delete-backup-data

• Delete an Azure Backup Recovery Services vault (PowerShell & CLI): https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/backup/backup-azure-delete-vault?tabs=powershell https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/backup/backup-azure-delete-vault?tabs=cli

• Force-delete a Recovery Services vault (all dependencies) via PowerShell: https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/site-recovery/delete-vault#use-powershell-to-force-delete-the-vault

Hi,

The restore point most likely has a resource lock. Check for such and delete it. After that you should be able to delete the restore point as well.

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