Merge pull request #253116 from MicrosoftDocs/release-enhanced-soft-delete

Release enhanced soft delete --scheduled release at 4AM of 9/29

Author: huypub

articles/backup/backup-azure-enhanced-soft-delete-about.md

@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
 ---
-title: Overview of enhanced soft delete for Azure Backup (preview)
+title: Overview of enhanced soft delete for Azure Backup
 description: This article gives an overview of enhanced soft delete for Azure Backup.
 ms.topic: conceptual
 ms.custom: references_regions
-ms.date: 07/27/2023
+ms.date: 09/11/2023
 ms.service: backup
 author: AbhishekMallick-MS
 ms.author: v-abhmallick
 ---
 
-# About Enhanced soft delete for Azure Backup (preview)
+# About enhanced soft delete for Azure Backup
 
 [Soft delete](backup-azure-security-feature-cloud.md) for Azure Backup enables you to recover your backup data even after it's deleted. This is useful when:
 
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ ms.author: v-abhmallick
 
 *Basic soft delete* is available for Recovery Services vaults for a while; *enhanced soft delete* now provides additional data protection capabilities.
 
+>[!Note]
+>Once you enable enhanced soft delete by enabling soft delete state to *always-on*, you can't disable it for that vault.
+
 ## What's soft delete?
 
 [Soft delete](backup-azure-security-feature-cloud.md) primarily delays permanent deletion of backup data and gives you an opportunity to recover data after deletion. This deleted data is retained for a specified duration (*14*-*180* days) called soft delete retention period.
@@ -42,15 +45,9 @@ The key benefits of enhanced soft delete are:
 - **Soft delete across workloads**: Enhanced soft delete applies to all vaulted datasources alike and is supported for Recovery Services vaults and Backup vaults. Enhanced soft delete also applies to operational backups of disks and VM backup snapshots used for instant restores. However, unlike vaulted backups, these snapshots can be directly accessed and deleted before the soft delete period expires. Enhanced soft delete is currently not supported for operational backup for Blobs and Azure Files.
 - **Soft delete of recovery points**: This feature allows you to recover data from recovery points that might have been deleted due to making changes in a backup policy or changing the backup policy associated with a backup item. Soft delete of recovery points isn't supported for log recovery points in SQL and SAP HANA workloads. [Learn more](manage-recovery-points.md#impact-of-expired-recovery-points-for-items-in-soft-deleted-state).
 
-## Supported regions
-
-- Enhanced soft delete is available in all Azure public regions.
-- Soft delete of recovery points is now available in all Azure public regions.
-
 ## Supported scenarios
 
 - Enhanced soft delete is supported for Recovery Services vaults and Backup vaults. Also, it's supported for new and existing vaults.
-- All existing Recovery Services vaults in the preview regions are upgraded with an option to use enhanced soft delete.
 - Enhanced soft delete applies to all vaulted workloads alike and is supported for Recovery Services vaults and Backup vaults. However, it currently doesn't support operational tier workloads, such as Azure Files backup, Operational backup for Blobs, Disk and VM snapshot backups.
 
 ## States of soft delete settings
@@ -111,4 +108,4 @@ You can also use multi-user authorization (MUA) to add an additional layer of pr
 
 ## Next steps
 
-[Configure and manage enhanced soft delete for Azure Backup (preview)](backup-azure-enhanced-soft-delete-configure-manage.md).
+[Configure and manage enhanced soft delete for Azure Backup](backup-azure-enhanced-soft-delete-configure-manage.md).

articles/backup/backup-azure-enhanced-soft-delete-configure-manage.md

@@ -1,23 +1,26 @@
 ---
-title: Configure and manage enhanced soft delete for Azure Backup (preview)
+title: Configure and manage enhanced soft delete for Azure Backup
 description: This article describes about how to configure and manage enhanced soft delete for Azure Backup.
 ms.topic: how-to
-ms.date: 06/12/2023
+ms.date: 09/11/2023
 ms.service: backup
 author: AbhishekMallick-MS
 ms.author: v-abhmallick
 ---
 
-# Configure and manage enhanced soft delete in Azure Backup (preview)
+# Configure and manage enhanced soft delete in Azure Backup
 
 This article describes how to configure and use enhanced soft delete to protect your data and recover backups, if they're deleted.
 
+>[!Note]
+>Once you enable enhanced soft delete by enabling soft delete state to *always-on*, you can't disable it for that vault.
+
 ## Before you start
 
 - Enhanced soft delete is supported for Recovery Services vaults and Backup vaults.
-- It's supported for new and existing vaults.
-- All existing Recovery Services vaults in the [preview regions](backup-azure-enhanced-soft-delete-about.md#supported-scenarios) are upgraded with an option to use enhanced soft delete.
-- For hybrid backups (using MARS, DPM, or MABS), enabling always-on soft delete will disallow server deregistration and  deletion of backups via the Azure portal. If you don't want to retain the backed-up data, we recommend you not to enable *always-on soft-delete* for the vault or perform *stop protection with delete data* before the server is decommissioned.
+- Enhanced soft delete applies to all vaulted workloads alike in Recovery Services vaults and Backup vaults. However, it currently doesn't support operational tier workloads, such as Azure Files backup, Operational backup for Blobs, and Disk and VM snapshot backups.
+- For hybrid backups (using MARS, DPM, or MABS), enabling always-on soft delete will disallow server deregistration and  deletion of backups via the Azure portal. If you don't want to retain the backed-up data, we recommend you not to enable the *always-on soft-delete* for the vault or perform *stop protection with delete data* before the server is decommissioned.
+- There's no retention cost for the default soft delete duration of 14 days for vaulted backup, after which it incurs regular backup cost.
 
 ## Enable soft delete with always-on state
 
@@ -198,9 +201,7 @@ Here are some points to note:
 
 ## Delete recovery points
 
-Soft delete of recovery points helps you recover any recovery points that are accidentally or maliciously deleted for some operations that could lead to deletion of one or more recovery points. Recovery points don't move to soft-deleted state immediately and have a *24 hour SLA* (same as before). The example here shows recovery points that were deleted as part of backup policy modifications.
-
-[Soft delete of recovery points](backup-azure-enhanced-soft-delete-about.md#soft-delete-of-recovery-points), a part of enhanced soft delete is currently available in selected Azure regions. [Learn more](backup-azure-enhanced-soft-delete-about.md#supported-regions) on the region availability.
+[Soft delete of recovery points](backup-azure-enhanced-soft-delete-about.md#soft-delete-of-recovery-points) is a part of enhanced soft delete that helps you recover any recovery points that are accidentally or maliciously deleted for some operations that could lead to deletion of one or more recovery points. Recovery points don't move to soft-deleted state immediately and have a *24 hour SLA* (same as before). The example here shows recovery points that were deleted as part of backup policy modifications.
 
 Follow these steps:
 
@@ -218,11 +219,11 @@ Follow these steps:
 
    The impacted recovery points are labeled as *being soft deleted* in the **Recovery type** column and will be retained as per the soft delete retention of the vault.
 
-   :::image type="content" source="./media/backup-azure-enhanced-soft-delete/select-restore-point-for-soft-delete.png" alt-text="Screenshot shows to filter recovery points for soft delete.":::
+   :::image type="content" source="./media/backup-azure-enhanced-soft-delete/select-restore-point-for-soft-delete.png" alt-text="Screenshot shows how to filter recovery points for soft delete.":::
 
 ## Undelete recovery points
 
-You can *undelete* recovery points that are in soft deleted state so that they can last till their expiry by modifying the policy again to increase the retention of backups.
+You can *undelete* recovery points that are in soft deleted state so that they can last until their expiry by modifying the policy again to increase the retention of backups.
 
 Follow these steps:
 
@@ -254,4 +255,4 @@ Follow these steps:
 
 ## Next steps
 
-[About Enhanced soft delete for Azure Backup (preview)](backup-azure-enhanced-soft-delete-about.md).
+[About enhanced soft delete for Azure Backup](backup-azure-enhanced-soft-delete-about.md).