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How to launch a failover job?

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Hello everybody,

I'm trying to launch a failover job using start-vbrreplicafailover cmdlet.
I didn't find any example neither in the official guide nor anywhere.

The cmdlet expects a "restorepoint". What is it like?
How to get the last restorepoint of a replica?

Thanks in advance,
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Re: How to launch a failover job?

Post by trav219 » 1 person likes this post

Hi JCD,

What I was able to work out is that you need to get the Replica first, then the Restore point and that is then sufficient to start the failover.

This should work:

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Get-VBRReplica | ?{$_.Name -eq $Job} | Get-VBRRestorePoint | ?{$_.VmName -eq $VMName} | sort CreationTime -Descending | Select -First 1 | Start-VBRReplicaFailover -Confirm:$false
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Re: How to launch a failover job?

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Hi Trav,

that's just great!!
Thanks a lot for your reply!!
It's exactly what I was looking for, but my poor PowerShell skills couldn't get over it!

Have a nice day,
JCD
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Re: How to launch a failover job?

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Hi,

The script for failover works fine but then how to launch a failback job?

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Re: How to launch a failover job?

Post by veremin »

I don’t have a chance to look closer right now, but, I think, Start-VBRViReplicaFailback(for VMware) or Start-VBRHvReplicaFailback(Hyper-V) should work fine.

Additionally, feel free to use Get-VBRCommand in order to see all available methods provided by Veeam PSSnapin.

Hope this helps.

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Re: How to launch a failover job?

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The issue when I tried to use that command is that it asks for restore point parameters which I couldn't find any information about them, any advice please?
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Re: How to launch a failover job?

Post by Sethbartlett » 1 person likes this post

Restore Points can be grabbed from Get-VBRRestorePoint I believe is the cmdlet, not currently at a shell to check. If you use Get-VBRCommand in the Veeam Snapin, you will get a list of cmdlets. Restore points will either have their own cmdlet or be retrievable from a method off of Get-VBRBackup object.
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