How to delete Azure Recovery Services vault?

Question

When I am trying to delete the Azure Recovery Services Vault from Azure portal, I got the error like in below figure. Even I deleted all backup items and replicated items from the vault.

For deleting the Azure Recovery Services vault, I have followed the below link

Delete an Azure Backup vault

So, how to delete the Azure recovery Services vault using portal or power shell cmdlet?

It does not appear on vault, you also need to delete it. Please check my answer. — Shui shengbao

Shui shengbao Shui shengbao · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-07T06:30:41

I used to encounter the same problem, there are SQL backups in the vault. You need find SQL backups and delete them.

You could check this answer to solve this issue.

$vault = Get-AzureRmRecoveryServicesVault -Name "VaultName"

Set-AzureRmRecoveryServicesVaultContext -Vault $vault

#VIEW THE BACKUP ITEMS
$container = Get-AzureRmRecoveryServicesBackupContainer -ContainerType AzureSQL -FriendlyName $vault.Name

$item = Get-AzureRmRecoveryServicesBackupItem -Container $container -WorkloadType AzureSQLDatabase

$availableBackups = Get-AzureRmRecoveryServicesBackupRecoveryPoint -Item $item

$availableBackups      
#REMOVE THE BACKUP ITEMS AND VAULT
$containers = Get-AzureRmRecoveryServicesBackupContainer -ContainerType AzureSQL -FriendlyName $vault.Name

ForEach ($container in $containers)
{
    $items = Get-AzureRmRecoveryServicesBackupItem -container $container -WorkloadType AzureSQLDatabase

    ForEach ($item in $items)
    {
        Disable-AzureRmRecoveryServicesBackupProtection -item $item -RemoveRecoveryPoints -ea SilentlyContinue
    }

    Unregister-AzureRmRecoveryServicesBackupContainer -Container $container
}

Remove-AzureRmRecoveryServicesVault -Vault $vault

How to delete Azure Recovery Services vault?

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