How to Restore Azure Virtual Machine using Powershell - Azure IaaS VM Backup
Azure Virtual Machine which are in Load Balancing can be backed up by Azure IaaS Backup ? , Answer is Yes.
Microsoft recently anounces support for Load balanced Virtual Machines on Azure, Please refer the below article.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-backup-supports-loadbalancer-cloudlink-virtualmachines/
Currently their are limitation with respect to restore, The restore should be performed whenever Virtual machines are configured in a special networking configuration.
For restoring the Virtual machines in the special networking configuration, then you should the powershell approach where it will allow you to restore the VM disk to a storage account and from where you can go ahead and configure the Virtual machine using existing disk in the special networking configuration as needed.
You further explore this in the below Microsoft article
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/backup-azure-vms-automation/#restore-an-azure-vm
Below are the sequence of powershell commands that can be used for restoring the VM disk from the Azure Backup Vault.
Get-AzureRmBackupVault
Name ResourceGroupName Region Storage
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Backupnow RecoveryService... centralus GeoRedundant
Get-AzureRMBackupVault –ResourceGroupName “RecoveryServices-BYDEFLG5BESPTOIGSYROZJR5V6ZCINXVYA6SZIUXICQVCHKR5IH
Q-Central-US”
Name ResourceGroupName Region Storage
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Backupnow RecoveryService... centralus GeoRedundant
$backupvault = Get-AzureRMBackupVault –ResourceGroupName “RecoveryServices-BYDEFLG5BESPTOIGSYROZJR5V6ZCINXVYA6S
ZIUXICQVCHKR5IHQ-Central-US”
$backupvault
Name ResourceGroupName Region Storage
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Backupnow RecoveryService... centralus GeoRedundant
$joblist = Get-AzureRMBackupJob -Vault $backupvault -Status InProgress
$joblist = Get-AzureRMBackupJob -Vault $backupvault -Status Completed
$joblist[0]
WorkloadName Operation Status StartTime EndTime
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vm2 Backup Completed 2/5/2016 2:23:22 AM 2/5/2016 2:42:36 AM
$backupitem = Get-AzureRMBackupContainer -Vault $backupvault -Type AzureVM -name "VM1" | Get-AzureRMBackupItem
Get-AzureRMBackupRecoveryPoint -Item $backupitem
RecoveryPointId RecoveryPointType RecoveryPointTime ContainerName
--------------- ----------------- ----------------- -------------
27578974793839 FileSystemConsi... 2/5/2016 2:26:13 AM iaasvmcontainer;highavailablevm;vm1
$rp = Get-AzureRMBackupRecoveryPoint -Item $backupitem
$rp
RecoveryPointId RecoveryPointType RecoveryPointTime ContainerName
--------------- ----------------- ----------------- -------------
27578974793839 FileSystemConsi... 2/5/2016 2:26:13 AM iaasvmcontainer;highavailablevm;vm1
$restorejob = Restore-AzureRMBackupItem -StorageAccountName "Azurestoragerestorenow" -RecoveryPoint $rp
$restorejob
WorkloadName Operation Status StartTime EndTime
------------ --------- ------ --------- -------
vm1 Restore InProgress 2/5/2016 2:03:45 PM
$restorejob
WorkloadName Operation Status StartTime EndTime
------------ --------- ------ --------- -------
vm1 Restore Completed 2/5/2016 2:03:45 PM 2/5/2016 2:23:17 PM
------------ --------- ------ --------- -------
vm1 Restore Completed 2/5/2016 2:03:45 PM 2/5/2016 2:23:17 PM
Restore Azure Virtual Machine using Power shell - Azure Backup (ARM Commands)