Protected Items - Delete

Service:: Recovery Services - Backup

API Version:: 2025-08-01

Used to disable backup of an item within a container. This is an asynchronous operation. To know the status of the request, call the GetItemOperationResult API.

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

URI Parameters

Name	In	Required	Type	Description
containerName	path	True	string	Name of the container whose details need to be fetched.
fabricName	path	True	string	The name of the BackupFabricResource
protectedItemName	path	True	string	Backed up item name whose details are to be fetched.
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 VaultResource
api-version	query	True	string minLength: 1	The API version to use for this operation.

Responses

Name	Type	Description
200 OK		Resource deleted successfully.
202 Accepted		The request has been accepted for processing, but processing has not yet completed.
204 No Content		Resource does not exist.
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

Delete Protection from Azure Virtual Machine

Sample request

HTTP

DELETE https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/resourceGroups/PythonSDKBackupTestRg/providers/Microsoft.RecoveryServices/vaults/PySDKBackupTestRsVault/backupFabrics/Azure/protectionContainers/iaasvmcontainer;iaasvmcontainerv2;pysdktestrg;pysdktestv2vm1/protectedItems/vm;iaasvmcontainerv2;pysdktestrg;pysdktestv2vm1?api-version=2025-08-01

Sample response

Status code:: 200

Status code:: 202

Azure-AsyncOperation: https://management.azure.com/Subscriptions/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/resourceGroups/PythonSDKBackupTestRg/providers/Microsoft.RecoveryServices/vaults/PySDKBackupTestRsVault/backupOperations/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000?api-version=2016-12-01
Location: https://management.azure.com/Subscriptions/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/resourceGroups/PythonSDKBackupTestRg/providers/Microsoft.RecoveryServices/vaults/PySDKBackupTestRsVault/backupOperationResults/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000?api-version=2016-12-01
Retry-After: 60

Status code:: 204

Definitions

Name	Description
ErrorDetail	Error Detail class which encapsulates Code, Message and Recommendations.
ErrorResponse	Error response

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