<p>Been working on a disaster recovery plan for my Kubernetes cluster and I am able to make snap shots of my managed disks but im not sure how to bind a recovered manager disk to an existing volumn cliam so I can re hydrate my data after a loss of data.</p>

Hizzy
<p>You can mount any disk <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/azure-disk-volume#mount-disk-as-volume" rel="nofollow noreferrer">manually</a> as a volume in a POD to recover data. Better approach would be to use <a href="https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-microsoft-azure/blob/master/README.md" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Velero</a> to take k8s configuration backup. It will save the disk and PVC information and should restore the volume claims smoothly.</p>
<p>Additionally, have you looked at <a href="https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/azuredisk-csi-driver" rel="nofollow noreferrer">AzureCSI</a> drivers? That's the hot stuff in AKS right now. It does support Volume <a href="https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/azuredisk-csi-driver/tree/master/deploy/example/snapshot" rel="nofollow noreferrer">snapshotting and recovery</a> from within the cluster. Best practice still would be to use <a href="https://velero.io/blog/csi-integration/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Velero for configuration</a> with CSI to backup whenever possible.</p>
