PowerShell Script to find the Recovery Services vault where a Storage Account is registered

This script helps you to find the Recovery Services vault where your storage account is registered.

Sample script to find the Recovery Services vault

Param(
        [Parameter(Mandatory=$True)][System.String] $ResourceGroupName,
        [Parameter(Mandatory=$True)][System.String] $StorageAccountName,
        [Parameter(Mandatory=$True)][System.String] $SubscriptionId
    )

Connect-AzAccount -Environment AzureChinaCloud
Select-AzSubscription -Subscription $SubscriptionId
$vaults = Get-AzRecoveryServicesVault
$found = $false
foreach($vault in $vaults)
{
  Write-Verbose "Checking vault: $($vault.Id)" -Verbose
  
  $containers = Get-AzRecoveryServicesBackupContainer -ContainerType AzureStorage -FriendlyName $StorageAccountName -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroupName -VaultId $vault.Id -Status Registered
  
  if($containers -ne $null)
  {
    $found = $True
    Write-Information "Found Storage account $StorageAccountName registered in vault: $($vault.Id)" -InformationAction Continue
    break;
  }
}

if(!$found)
{
     Write-Information "Storage account: $StorageAccountName is not registered in any vault of this subscription" -InformationAction Continue
}

Execute the script to find the Recovery Services vault

To execute the script for finding the Recovery Services vault where your storage account is registered, follow these steps:

  1. Save the preceding script on your machine with a name of your choice. In this example, we saved it as FindRegisteredStorageAccount.ps1.

  2. Execute the script by providing the following parameters:

    • -ResourceGroupName - Resource Group of the storage account
    • -StorageAccountName - Storage Account Name
    • -SubscriptionID - The ID of subscription where the storage account is present.

The following example tries to find the Recovery Services vault where the afsaccount storage account is registered:

.\FindRegisteredStorageAccount.ps1 -ResourceGroupName AzureFiles -StorageAccountName afsaccount -SubscriptionId aaaa0a0a-bb1b-cc2c-dd3d-eeeeee4e4e4e

Output of the script

The output shows the complete path of the Recovery Services vault where the storage account is registered. Here's a sample output:

Found Storage account afsaccount registered in vault: /subscriptions/ aaaa0a0a-bb1b-cc2c-dd3d-eeeeee4e4e4e/resourceGroups/azurefiles/providers/Microsoft.RecoveryServices/vaults/azurefilesvault123

Next steps

Learn how to Backup Azure File Shares from the Azure portal