Get restore reason for VM restores

[Hunv]

Hi,

currently I am writing a script to get all recoveries made and document them at a central place for compliance reasons.
I already got AD, Mail and File recoveries with all information I need. My last information that is missing is the value that is entered in the reason field when performing a VM recovery. It is not stated in the Options property of the return value of Get-VbrRestoreSession as it is for the other types. I also cannot find it somewhere in the logs. Does anybody knows how I can get this information using PowerShell?

Regards,
Kristian

[david.domask]

Hi Kristian,

It's under the Info property on CRestoreSession objects:

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$restoreSess = Get-VBRRestoreSession | sort -Property CreationTime -Descending | Select -First 1
$restoreSess.info.reason
powershell reason test

Hint: Use Export-CliXml to export the object and all its properties to file, and you can use any text editor to search / explore all properties on an object

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$restoreSess | Export-CliXml ~/Downlaods/restoreSess.log; start ~/Downloads

Most advance text editors will have some feature / plugin to pretty up XML for easier reading.