Delete Job Via Powershell

[Ianm]

I Veeam backup to a 3TB Drive then to Tape, every week I need to delete backup files and start again, leaving the job intact. So I regularly go into GUI and "Delete From Disk"

I started to look at Powershell to script it, but although I think it should be easy, I can't even get past GET-VBRJobObject !!!!

If I open Veeam Powershell and type GET-VBRJob I get a list of Jobs, If I then type GET-VBRJobOject it asks me for a Job, if I enter a job from the list I get errors

I have used some powershell in SQL but this doesn't make sense

Effectively I want to script two jobs and delete the files once a week from a scheduler

[ThomasMc]

You'll want to do this for v6

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Get-VBRBackup -Name "Backup Name" | Remove-VBRBackup -FromDisk -WhatIf


just drop the -whatif to commit the action as right now it's only telling you what it would have done

[Ianm]

But this asks a Yes / No question If I want to script it ???

[ThomasMc]

like this

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Get-VBRBackup -Name "Backup Name" | Remove-VBRBackup -FromDisk -WhatIf -Confirm:$false


again dropping the -whatif if your certain

[Gostev]

Ian, I guess Thomas just does not want to post a command that would immediately delete your backup from disk. If you are certain this is what you want to do, just remove the -WhatIf parameter from the original line. No questions will be asked in this case. Thanks!