Removing Backed-Up Data

When you remove the backup appliance and all resources associated with it, backups and snapshots created by this backup appliance are not removed from your Microsoft Azure account automatically. You can later import the created Azure VM image-level backups, Azure SQL backups, Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL backups to a repository and backup copies of virtual network configurations to a new backup appliance as described in section Adding Backup Repositories.

If you do not want to keep the backed-up data, remove it manually as described in section Managing Backed-Up Data before you uninstall the solution. Alternatively, you can remove the data using the Microsoft Azure portal.

To remove the backup data using the Microsoft Azure portal, do the following:

1. Sign in to the Microsoft Azure portal using credentials of the Microsoft Azure account that you used to install Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure.

2. Navigate to Resource groups and click the resource group to which the backed-up data belong.
3. Remove the backed-up data:

• To remove backups, click a storage account where the backup repository storing the backed-up data resides. Navigate to Containers and select a container where the backups are stored. Select the check box next to the Veeam folder and click Delete.

• To remove cloud-native snapshots, select check boxes next to the necessary snapshots. In the Delete Resources window, type Yes to confirm the action and click Delete.