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Revert to Azure Managed Disk snapshot on Azure VM
Hi All, Looking for some assistance in reverting a Managed disk snapshot to an OS disk of the VM. Idealy i would like to do the following: 1. Detach existing OS managed disk from VM 2. Conve...
Hi, Do you want to use this VM as master Image? are you going to create multiple VM from this image? Best Sunit Patil
Hi Sunit,
Actually no. I'm attempting to restore the snapshot in a similar way you would apply a Hyper-V checkpoint. I would prefer not to delete and recreate the Azure VM from the snapshot. Instead i was wondering if there is a way i can convert the snapshot to a disk and attach it back to the existing VM....
Hi Tom,
in this scenario use backup feature to take Snapshot backup you may have to pay some more money for backup Feature.
Check this URL for more details
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-azure-vms
Best
Sunit Patil
Skype: Sunitonline
Thats what i love about azure, so many ways to achieve the same thing.
Thanks Sunit, i think Azure Backup is a bit excessive for my needs. The VM;s in question are all DEV boxes, we need a quick procedure to take a point in time backup pre-deployment. This would also serve as a fast restore point if required.
What we are currently doing by using managed disks with snapshot capabilities, then recreating a disk from the snapshot and then re-creating the VM from the new disk is serving its purpose. I think we will stick with this approach for now as to not introduce additional costs. Its actually a fast process when the powershell scripts are all in order too.
