Protection Containers - Refresh

Service:: Recovery Services - Backup

API Version:: 2025-08-01

Discovers all the containers in the subscription that can be backed up to Recovery Services Vault. This is an asynchronous operation. To know the status of the operation, call GetRefreshOperationResult API.

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

With optional parameters:

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

URI Parameters

Name	In	Required	Type	Description
fabricName	path	True	string	Fabric name associated the container.
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
202 Accepted		Resource operation accepted.
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

Trigger Azure Vm Discovery

Sample request

HTTP

POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/resourceGroups/SwaggerTestRg/providers/Microsoft.RecoveryServices/vaults/NetSDKTestRsVault/backupFabrics/Azure/refreshContainers?api-version=2025-08-01

Sample response

Status code:: 202

Location: https://management.azure.com/Subscriptions/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/resourceGroups/SwaggerTestRg/providers/Microsoft.RecoveryServices/vaults/NetSDKTestRsVault/backupFabrics/Azure/operationResults/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000?api-version=2016-12-01
Retry-After: 60

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