Script to perform instant recovery to vCenter

[PSDude]

Hi!

I've backed up a number of physical hosts using the Veeam Agent which includes enabling application-aware processing. My intention is to restore these into vCenter using a PowerShell script so that I can restore multiple machines at one time.

It looks like the cmdlet to perform the restore is Start-VBRViComputerInstantRecovery. One of the parameters it prompts for is RestorePoint. If I run Get-VBRRestorePoint, I don't see any of the hosts I've backed up using the above method, however if I use Get-VBRApplicationRestorePoint, I do. Great, or so I thought... I pop one of the machines into a variable but, the Start-VBRViComputerInstantRecovery cmdlet doesn't like what I'm feeding it.

Here's a little snippet of what I'm running:

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$VBRServer = "VeeamServer"
$VBRCreds = Get-Credential
$VIServer = "vCenterServer"
$RestorePoint = Get-VBRApplicationRestorePoint | Where {$_.Name -eq "SERVERNAME"} | Sort Descending | Select -First 1
Start-VBRViComputerInstantRecovery -RestorePoint $RestorePoint -Server $VIServer

I then get this error:

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Start-VBRViComputerInstantRecovery : Cannot bind parameter 'RestorePoint'. Cannot convert the "SERVERNAME" value of type
"Veeam.Backup.PowerShell.Infos.VBRApplicationRestorePoint" to type "Veeam.Backup.Core.COib".
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+ ... tart-VBRViComputerInstantRecovery -RestorePoint $RestorePoint -Server ...
+                                                     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:) [Start-VBRViComputerInstantRecovery], ParameterBindingException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CannotConvertArgumentNoMessage,Veeam.Backup.PowerShell.Cmdlets.StartVBRViComputerInstant
   Recovery

Is there an alternative way of doing this?

[david.domask]

Hi Stu, welcome to the forums.

Can you share how you tried to get the restorepoint with Get-VBRRestorePoint? With Agent backups, please see the note on Get-VBRRestorePoint:

To get a list of restore points for a Veeam Agent job, you must provide the asterisks sign for the Name parameter value: Name "AgentJob*". Otherwise, the Get-VBRRestorePoint cmdlet will not return any restore points for the Veeam Agent job.

Going at this with strings is not the greatest in my experience, so usually I first fetch a CBackup object with Get-VBRBackup and pass that to the -Backup parameter on Get-VbrRestorePoint:

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PS C:\Users\david.LAB> $Backup = Get-VBRBackup -name "Vaw-app01"
PS C:\Users\david.LAB> $backup

Job Name                  Type            Creation Time               VM count
--------                  ----            -------------               --------
VAW-App01                 Windows Agen... 15.01.2024 13:25:09                1


PS C:\Users\david.LAB> Get-VBRRestorePoint -Backup $Backup

VM Name                   Creation Time          Type
-------                   -------------          ----
APP-01.lab.intern         15.01.2024 13:44:14    Full
app-01.lab.intern         08.05.2024 12:03:35    Increment
app-01.lab.intern         08.05.2024 12:14:44    Increment

Any of those resulting objects can be passed to the Start-VBRViComputerInstantRecovery -RestorePoint parameter. Try it out and let us know the result?

[PSDude]

Hi! Thank you for this!

Curiously, when I use Get-VBRRestorePoint -Name "AgentJob*" nothing is returned. I did also try with Get-VBRRestorePoint -Name "*AgentJob*"

Likewise, with Get-VBRBackup, nothing is returned. I have also tried

Get-VBRBackup -Name "AgentJob*"
Get-VBRBackup -Name "*AgentJob*"

and

Get-VBRBackup -Name "SERVERNAME"

However, I've just taken some of what you've said and come up with the following that seems to work:

$BackupJob = [Veeam.Backup.Core.CBackup]::getall() | Where {$_.JobName -like "JOBNAME"}
$RestorePoint = Get-VBRRestorePoint -Backup $BackupJob | Sort CreationTime -Descending | Select -First 1
Start-VBRViComputerInstantRecovery -RestorePoint $RestorePoint -Server $VIServer

Thank you for your help!

[david.domask]

Hi Stu,

Glad to hear you got it going, though I must inform that the first line uses an unsupported method. This one should in theory be stable, but I think if you're not seeing the backups returned even with Get-VBRBackup, it's best to open a Support Case and let Support review, as the cmdlets should return your agent backups as happened in my example.

If you end up opening a case, please share the case number; I recommend reproduce the issue prior to opening the case, note the date/time of the reproduce (and the user that you were running the cmdlets with), then include logs from the Veeam server itself. (Use the 3rd radio button, select the Veeam server itself. That should be enough for Support to start the investigation)

[PSDude]

Hi David, thanks for this. I've logged with ref #07366624.