I have servers (VMs and servers with agents) that are being decommissioned. The request from my boss is to do a full backup and keep it after the server is deleted. The VMs are in a subclient and I am worried that their backups will be deleted if the VM is removed from the subclient. Similarly, I am concerned the backups will be lost if a SQL agent is removed. I am looking for some documents or advice that can guide me through this process of removing a server from the backup schedule while retaining the past backups. Then comes the question “How would you restore a backup of a decommissioned server?”
Any help for this newbie is appreciated.