If we wrap this up in a Get-Snapshots function then it will return each snapshot of our blob in date order. ListBlobs ( $options ) #once we have the results we need to manually filter #the ones we aren't interested in just now foreach ( $snapshot in $snapshots ) UseFlatBlobListing = $true $snapshots = $blob. BlobListingDetails = 'Snapshots' $options. #we need to create an options object to pass to #the ListBlobs method so that it includes snapshots $options = New-Object Microsoft. #assume we can get our blob as before $blob = Get -Blob We do this using the CloudBlobClient.GetBlobReference method, building up the required credentials from the storage account details. We now need to grab an instance of CloudBlob that represents our VM disk. Make a note of both the storage account and disk blob names, and we have enough information to identify the correct blob. From the table, locate the disk with the matching name and grab the location URL, which will look something like this: This will display a table listing all the disks that are being used by virtual machines, to which VMs they are attached and their location. Make a note of the disk name (highlighted) then browse to Virtual Machines > Disks.

The first thing that we need to do is get a reference to the blob that contains the virtual hard disk (vhd) for our virtual machine, and to do that we need to dig through the portal.īrowse to the Dashboard for your virtual machine and you will see something like:

Most of the operations we want to invoke for our backup are going to be called on the CloudBlob class, which represents both the original blob and any snapshots that are acquired from Azure.

Set -AzureSubscription -SubscriptionName ''Īt this point you are able to start using the API with your Azure account.

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