Question

Your company uses a Recovery Services vault to protect several Azure VMs with Azure Backup. A disgruntled administrator deleted the backup for a critical VM and also stopped its backup, choosing the option to delete backup data. Three days later you discover the deletion. The vault has soft delete enabled with the default configuration. What must you do to restore the VM's recovery points before they are permanently purged?

Accepted Answer

Undelete the backup item within the soft-delete retention period, then re-enable the backup policy to resume protection.

Answer

Open a Microsoft support ticket, because soft-deleted backup data cannot be recovered by an administrator.

Answer

Restore the VM from a Recovery Services vault snapshot stored in the paired region using geo-redundant storage.

Answer

Create a new Recovery Services vault and import the deleted recovery points using Cross Region Restore.