Need help to move all my resource groups to a new Subscription

Chand Mehta 1 Reputation point
2021-10-11T19:15:42.08+00:00

Hi

I have an old subscription that is expired. I want to move all its resource groups to the new subscription. As it is my first time moving resources to a new subscription, I am extra cautious just to avoid any data loss. When I tried by moving one resource group to another, it failed because it had some dependencies which were in some other resource group and also those required resources were shared by more than one Virtual Machine.

So, are there any steps to move my resources and if in case something fails, I am able to restore the old subscription to its original form without any data loss .

The moved VM (that I tried moving from old subscription to the new one) did not work. I was unable to RDP to that machine.

So if I try to move the entire setup from one subscription to another, I want to have a backup of my original subscription.

Azure Resource Mover
Azure Resource Mover
An Azure service used for moving multiple resources between Azure regions.
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  1. Alan Kinane 16,906 Reputation points MVP
    2021-10-11T19:25:58.02+00:00

    Moving resources from one subscription to another is just a management plane change, there is no change to the data plane so your data isn't actually moved anywhere. There really should be no risk involved as if the move fails to complete then your resources will remain in the original location. All dependent resources need to be moved together, there's no way around this.

    You said your old subscription has expired, do you mean you have run out of credits and the subscription is disabled? If this is the case then you will not be able to move those resources. You will have to reactivate that subscription first before the resources are available to be moved.

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