Article – Clearing the Jobs status out of Windows Azure Backup using Event Viewer

Here’s a quick way to delete the Jobs and Alert events that show up in the Windows Azure Backup.

First make sure you don’t need the JOB history first !  :)

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Go to Event Viewer and select Applications and Services Logs

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Open up the CloudBackupOperational log and delete the events, there are 5 that are created for each recovery point created in Windows Azure.

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It first checks the “Installed version of Windows Azure Backup Agent is the latest”

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it then checks “The backup operation has started”

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It then checks “Storage quota in within limits”

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It then checks again “Storage quota is within limits”

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then finally “The backup operation has completed.”

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You can then go to the right to Clear Log

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You will decide to Save and Clear or just Clear.

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The events are cleared

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You will see that the Jobs are cleared. You also see that there are still a total of 3 backups for this item listed.

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The same 3 you see in the Windows Azure Recovery Services Backup Vault

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To recover the backed up items, go to Recover Data and start the wizard

 

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Select Volume and Data

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Select Volume and Date

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Select Items to Recover

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Specify Recovery Options, whether they are in the original location or another,  I used the desktop just for the demo,

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Confirmation, click Recover

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Finished

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Success

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Confirmed in Windows Azure Backup

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