Protectable Containers - List

Service:: Recovery Services - Backup

API Version:: 2025-08-01

Lists the containers that can be registered to Recovery Services Vault.

GET https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.RecoveryServices/vaults/{vaultName}/backupFabrics/{fabricName}/protectableContainers?api-version=2025-08-01

With optional parameters:

GET https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.RecoveryServices/vaults/{vaultName}/backupFabrics/{fabricName}/protectableContainers?api-version=2025-08-01&$filter={$filter}

URI Parameters

Name	In	Required	Type	Description
fabricName	path	True	string
resourceGroupName	path	True	string minLength: 1 maxLength: 90	The name of the resource group. The name is case insensitive.
subscriptionId	path	True	string minLength: 1	The ID of the target subscription.
vaultName	path	True	string	The name of the recovery services vault.
api-version	query	True	string minLength: 1	The API version to use for this operation.
$filter	query		string	OData filter options.

Responses

Name	Type	Description
200 OK	ProtectableContainerResourceList	Azure operation completed successfully.
Other Status Codes	ErrorResponse	An unexpected error response.

Security

azure_auth

Azure Active Directory OAuth2 Flow.

Type: oauth2
Flow: implicit
Authorization URL: https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/authorize

Scopes

Name	Description
user_impersonation	impersonate your user account

Examples

List protectable items with backupManagementType filter as AzureStorage

Sample request

HTTP

GET https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/resourceGroups/testRg/providers/Microsoft.RecoveryServices/vaults/testvault/backupFabrics/Azure/protectableContainers?api-version=2025-08-01&$filter=backupManagementType eq 'AzureStorage' and workloadType eq 'AzureFileShare'

Sample response

Status code:: 200

{
  "value": [
    {
      "name": "StorageContainer;storage;test-rg;testst",
      "type": "Microsoft.RecoveryServices/vaults/backupFabrics/protectableContainers",
      "id": "/Subscriptions/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/resourceGroups/test-rg/providers/Microsoft.RecoveryServices/vaults/testvault/backupFabrics/Azure/protectableContainers/StorageContainer;storage;test-rg;teststorage",
      "properties": {
        "backupManagementType": "AzureStorage",
        "containerId": "/subscriptions/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/resourceGroups/test-rg/providers/Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/teststorage",
        "friendlyName": "teststorage",
        "healthStatus": "Healthy",
        "protectableContainerType": "StorageContainer"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "StorageContainer;ClassicStorage;test-rg;teststorage",
      "type": "Microsoft.RecoveryServices/vaults/backupFabrics/protectableContainers",
      "id": "/Subscriptions/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/resourceGroups/test-rg/providers/Microsoft.RecoveryServices/vaults/testvault/backupFabrics/Azure/protectableContainers/StorageContainer;ClassicStorage;test-rg;teststorage",
      "properties": {
        "backupManagementType": "AzureStorage",
        "containerId": "/subscriptions/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/resourceGroups/test-rg/providers/Microsoft.ClassicStorage/storageAccounts/teststorage",
        "friendlyName": "teststorage",
        "healthStatus": "Healthy",
        "protectableContainerType": "StorageContainer"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Definitions

Name	Description
AzureStorageProtectableContainer	Azure Storage-specific protectable containers
AzureVMAppContainerProtectableContainer	Azure workload-specific container
BackupManagementType	Backup management type to execute the current job.
createdByType	The type of identity that created the resource.
ErrorDetail	Error Detail class which encapsulates Code, Message and Recommendations.
ErrorResponse	Error response
ProtectableContainerResource	Protectable Container Class.
ProtectableContainerResourceList	List of ProtectableContainer resources
ProtectableContainerType	Type of the container. The value of this property for Compute Azure VM is Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines Classic Compute Azure VM is Microsoft.ClassicCompute/virtualMachines
systemData	Metadata pertaining to creation and last modification of the resource.

AzureStorageProtectableContainer

Object

Azure Storage-specific protectable containers

Name	Type	Description
backupManagementType	BackupManagementType	Type of backup management for the container.
containerId	string	Fabric Id of the container such as ARM Id.
friendlyName	string	Friendly name of the container.
healthStatus	string	Status of health of the container.
protectableContainerType	string: StorageContainer	Type of the container. The value of this property for Compute Azure VM is Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines Classic Compute Azure VM is Microsoft.ClassicCompute/virtualMachines

AzureVMAppContainerProtectableContainer

Object

Azure workload-specific container

Name	Type	Description
backupManagementType	BackupManagementType	Type of backup management for the container.
containerId	string	Fabric Id of the container such as ARM Id.
friendlyName	string	Friendly name of the container.
healthStatus	string	Status of health of the container.
protectableContainerType	string: VMAppContainer	Type of the container. The value of this property for Compute Azure VM is Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines Classic Compute Azure VM is Microsoft.ClassicCompute/virtualMachines

BackupManagementType

Enumeration

Backup management type to execute the current job.

Value	Description
Invalid
AzureIaasVM
MAB
DPM
AzureBackupServer
AzureSql
AzureStorage
AzureWorkload
DefaultBackup

createdByType

Enumeration

The type of identity that created the resource.

Value	Description
User
Application
ManagedIdentity
Key

ErrorDetail

Object

Error Detail class which encapsulates Code, Message and Recommendations.

Name	Type	Description
code	string	Error code.
message	string	Error Message related to the Code.
recommendations	string[]	List of recommendation strings.

ErrorResponse

Object

Error response

Name	Type	Description
error	ErrorDetail	The error object.

ProtectableContainerResource

Object

Protectable Container Class.

Name	Type	Description
eTag	string	Optional ETag.
id	string	Fully qualified resource ID for the resource. Ex - /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/{resourceProviderNamespace}/{resourceType}/{resourceName}
location	string	Resource location.
name	string	The name of the resource
properties	ProtectableContainer: AzureStorageProtectableContainer AzureVMAppContainerProtectableContainer	ProtectableContainerResource properties
systemData	systemData	Azure Resource Manager metadata containing createdBy and modifiedBy information.
tags	object	Resource tags.
type	string	The type of the resource. E.g. "Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines" or "Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts"

ProtectableContainerResourceList

Object

List of ProtectableContainer resources

Name	Type	Description
nextLink	string	The URI to fetch the next page of resources, with each API call returning up to 200 resources per page. Use ListNext() to fetch the next page if the total number of resources exceeds 200.
value	ProtectableContainerResource[]	List of resources.

ProtectableContainerType

Enumeration

Type of the container. The value of this property for

Compute Azure VM is Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines
Classic Compute Azure VM is Microsoft.ClassicCompute/virtualMachines

Value	Description
Invalid
Unknown
IaasVMContainer
IaasVMServiceContainer
DPMContainer
AzureBackupServerContainer
MABContainer
Cluster
AzureSqlContainer
Windows
VCenter
VMAppContainer
SQLAGWorkLoadContainer
StorageContainer
GenericContainer
Microsoft.ClassicCompute/virtualMachines
Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines
AzureWorkloadContainer

systemData

Object

Metadata pertaining to creation and last modification of the resource.

Name	Type	Description
createdAt	string (date-time)	The timestamp of resource creation (UTC).
createdBy	string	The identity that created the resource.
createdByType	createdByType	The type of identity that created the resource.
lastModifiedAt	string (date-time)	The timestamp of resource last modification (UTC)
lastModifiedBy	string	The identity that last modified the resource.
lastModifiedByType	createdByType	The type of identity that last modified the resource.

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Protectable Containers - List

URI Parameters

Responses

Security

azure_auth

Scopes

Examples

List protectable items with backupManagementType filter as AzureStorage

Sample request

Sample response

Definitions

AzureStorageProtectableContainer

AzureVMAppContainerProtectableContainer

BackupManagementType

createdByType

ErrorDetail

ErrorResponse

ProtectableContainerResource

ProtectableContainerResourceList

ProtectableContainerType

systemData