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how to change a recovery service vault with existing backup from cloud-grs to archive-lrs

TeamLogic IT Admin 20 Reputation points
2025-08-07T18:20:20.7266667+00:00

There is an existing Recovery Vault with backup data, set as Cloud GRS with no Archiving. Is there any way to change it to LRS and add Archive.

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  1. TP 131.6K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2025-08-07T19:10:23.4533333+00:00

    Hi,

    Unfortunately once you protect items the replication setting cannot be changed. You could add archiving to the existing GRS vault, but I don't think that is what you want. You would need to create a new LRS vault.

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-create-recovery-services-vault#modify-default-settings

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    Thanks.

    -TP

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  1. Siva shunmugam Nadessin 160 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
    2025-08-07T22:07:02.9066667+00:00

    Hello TeamLogic IT Admin 

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

    To help protect workloads in a new LRS vault, you need to delete the current protection and data in the GRS vault and reconfigure backups.

    To stop and delete current protection on the GRS vault:

    1. Follow these steps to disable soft delete in the GRS vault's properties.
    2. Stop protection and delete backups from the existing GRS vault. On the vault dashboard menu, select Backup Items. If you need to move items that are listed here to the LRS vault, you must remove them and their backup data. See Delete protected items in the cloud and Delete protected items on-premises.
    3. If you're planning to move Azure file shares, SQL Server instances, or SAP HANA servers, you'll also need to unregister them. On the vault dashboard menu, select Backup Infrastructure. For steps beyond that, see Unregister a storage account associated with Azure file shares, Unregister a SQL Server instance, or Unregister an SAP HANA instance.
    4. After you remove Azure file shares, SQL Server instances, or SAP HANA servers from the GRS vault, continue to configure the backups for your workload in the new LRS vault.

    Reference documents.

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-create-recovery-services-vault?wt.mc_id=knowledgesearch_inproduct_azure-cxp-community-insider#modify-default-settings

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    Thanks,

    Siva shunmugam.

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