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Get Azure virtual machine backup reports using Powershell

I found my junior colleague are gathering Azure virtual machines backup report manually so I thought to write and pull Azure Virtual Machine Backup (Recovery services vault) report including Backup status and Summary using Microsoft PowerShell script to ease the task.

To check the current backup configuration and status information on the Azure Portal, select Virtual Machine, click Backup in the navigation pane, this is a seperate pane to view Backup information (It includes Backup status Summary, Recovery services vault name, backup policy name, last backup status and etc..). I wanted this information in excel file.

Microsoft Azure Portal Virtual Machine Backup recovery Vault backup Pre-check last backup status Summary recovery services vault Backup policy oldest restore Point Powershell.png

Powershell Azure script is very simple, once script is executed it fetches report of all VMs from Azure and shows below collected information.

Microsoft Azure Portal Backup recovery vault vm report Powershell az get-azvm Get-AzRecoveryServicesVault Get-AzRecoveryServicesBackupStatus Get-AzRecoveryServicesBackupContainer Get-AzRecoveryServicesBackupItem.png

There are two seperate parameters to use with this script. Parameter -AllVirtualMachines fetches information of All vms backup (This is a default parameter and doesn't need to mention while executing script). If there is requirement to get backup information from VMs list you can use parameter -VirtualMachinesList with VM Names seperated by comma.

Microsoft Azure Powershell Get-AzVMbackupInformation.ps1 az module get-azvm backedup Backup recovery vault backup policy cmdlet get info report.png

If you want this information in Excel CSV file just use pipeline to store information in csv. Example: | Export-Csv filename.csv

Download this script here or it is also available on github.com.

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[CmdletBinding(SupportsShouldProcess=$True,
    ConfirmImpact='Medium',
    HelpURI='http://vcloud-lab.com',
    DefaultParameterSetName = 'AllVirtualMachines'
)]

<#
    .SYNOPSIS
    Collect Azure VM Backup Information

    .DESCRIPTION
    This Script collects Azure Virtual Machine Backup Recovery service vault information, This report includes the complete backup status Information of VM.

    .PARAMETER AllVirtualMachines
    Collect Backup information of the all Azure Virtual Machines, This is default parameter.

    .PARAMETER VirtualMachineList
    You can specify for which virtual machine you want backup information.

    .INPUTS
    None. Provides virtual machine information.

    .OUTPUTS
    Generate Backup information. You can pipe information to Export-CSV.

    .EXAMPLE
    PS> .\Get-AzVMBackupInformation.ps1
    
    VM_Name                         : vcloud-lab-vm01
    VM_Location                     : uksouth
    VM_ResourceGroupName            : VCLOUD-LAB.COM
    VM_BackedUp                     : True
    VM_RecoveryVaultName            : vault828
    VM_RecoveryVaultPolicy          : DailyPolicy-kosrnox0
    VM_BackupHealthStatus           : Passed
    VM_BackupProtectionStatus       : Healthy
    VM_LastBackupStatus             : Completed
    VM_LastBackupTime               : 27-05-2021 19:32:34
    VM_BackupDeleteState            : NotDeleted
    VM_BackupLatestRecoveryPoint    : 27-05-2021 19:32:37
    VM_Id                           : /subscriptions/9e22xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx/resourceGroups/VCLOUD-LAB.COM/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/vcloud-lab-vm01
    RecoveryVault_ResourceGroupName : vCloud-lab.com
    RecoveryVault_Location          : uksouth
    RecoveryVault_SubscriptionId    : /subscriptions/9e22xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx/resourceGroups/vCloud-lab.com/providers/Microsoft.RecoveryServices/vaults/vault828

    .EXAMPLE
    PS> .\Get-AzVMBackupInformation.ps1 -AllVirtualMachines
    This produces same result as .\Get-AzVMBackupInformation.ps1 from all VMs

    .EXAMPLE
    PS> .\Get-AzVMBackupInformation.ps1 -VirtualMachineList
    Provide either single virtual machine name or in list
    
    .LINK
    Online version: http://vcloud-lab.com

    .LINK
    Get-AzVMBackupInformation.ps1
#>
Param
( 
    [parameter(Position=0, ParameterSetName = 'AllVMs' )]
    [Switch]$AllVirtualMachines,
    [parameter(Position=0, ValueFromPipeline=$True, ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$True, ParameterSetName = 'VM' )]
    [alias('Name')]
    [String[]]$VirtualMachineList
) #Param
Begin 
{
    #Collecing Azure virtual machines Information
    Write-Host "Collecing Azure virtual machine Information" -BackgroundColor DarkGreen
    if (($PSBoundParameters.ContainsKey('AllVirtualMachines')) -or ($PSBoundParameters.Count -eq 0))
    {
        $vms = Get-AzVM
    } #if ($PSBoundParameters.ContainsKey('AllVirtualMachines'))
    elseif ($PSBoundParameters.ContainsKey('VirtualMachineList'))
    {
        $vms = @()
        foreach ($vmname in $VirtualMachineList)
        {
            $vms += Get-AzVM -Name $vmname
            
        } #foreach ($vmname in $VirtualMachineList)
    } #elseif ($PSBoundParameters.ContainsKey('VirtualMachineList'))

    #Collecing All Azure backup recovery vaults Information
    Write-Host "Collecting all Backup Recovery Vault information" -BackgroundColor DarkGreen
    $backupVaults = Get-AzRecoveryServicesVault
} #Begin 
Process
{
    $vmBackupReport = [System.Collections.ArrayList]::new()
    foreach ($vm in $vms) 
    {
        $recoveryVaultInfo = Get-AzRecoveryServicesBackupStatus -Name $vm.Name -ResourceGroupName $vm.ResourceGroupName -Type 'AzureVM'
        if ($recoveryVaultInfo.BackedUp -eq $true)
        {
            Write-Host "$($vm.Name) - BackedUp : Yes"
            #Backup Recovery Vault Information
            $vmBackupVault = $backupVaults | Where-Object {$_.ID -eq $recoveryVaultInfo.VaultId}

            #Backup recovery Vault policy Information
            $container = Get-AzRecoveryServicesBackupContainer -ContainerType AzureVM -VaultId $vmBackupVault.ID -FriendlyName $vm.Name #-Status "Registered" 
            $backupItem = Get-AzRecoveryServicesBackupItem -Container $container -WorkloadType AzureVM -VaultId $vmBackupVault.ID
        } #if ($recoveryVaultInfo.BackedUp -eq $true)
        else 
        {
            Write-Host "$($vm.Name) - BackedUp : No" -BackgroundColor DarkRed
            $vmBackupVault = $null
            $container =  $null
            $backupItem =  $null
        } #else if ($recoveryVaultInfo.BackedUp -eq $true)
        
        [void]$vmBackupReport.Add([PSCustomObject]@{
            VM_Name = $vm.Name
            VM_Location = $vm.Location
            VM_ResourceGroupName = $vm.ResourceGroupName
            VM_BackedUp = $recoveryVaultInfo.BackedUp
            VM_RecoveryVaultName =  $vmBackupVault.Name
            VM_RecoveryVaultPolicy = $backupItem.ProtectionPolicyName
            VM_BackupHealthStatus = $backupItem.HealthStatus
            VM_BackupProtectionStatus = $backupItem.ProtectionStatus
            VM_LastBackupStatus = $backupItem.LastBackupStatus
            VM_LastBackupTime = $backupItem.LastBackupTime
            VM_BackupDeleteState = $backupItem.DeleteState
            VM_BackupLatestRecoveryPoint = $backupItem.LatestRecoveryPoint
            VM_Id = $vm.Id
            RecoveryVault_ResourceGroupName = $vmBackupVault.ResourceGroupName
            RecoveryVault_Location = $vmBackupVault.Location
            RecoveryVault_SubscriptionId = $vmBackupVault.ID
        }) #[void]$vmBackupReport.Add([PSCustomObject]@{
    } #foreach ($vm in $vms) 
} #Process
end
{
    $vmBackupReport
} #end

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