Removing a single VM from replicas

[farge]

Hello,

in a Powershell script I need to delete (from disk) only a particular replica VM among all those created by a given Veeam 6.1 replication job (ie, looking at Veeam shell under "Replicas" and expanding the replica set with the name of the job, I need to just remove (and delete from disk) VM1, leaving VM2 and VM3 in place).
Can someone please provide an example of how to do that through Veeam cmdlets? I tried using remove-vbrrestoreplica and the command seems to complete successfully but the replica VM does not get deleted,
Here's what I tried:

Get-VBRReplica -Name "Test Replication Job" | get-vbrrestorepoint | remove-vbrrestorepoint -Name VM1

TIA
E.

[veremin]

Hi.

As far as I can understand, you did only part of all necessary actions.

Step-by-step plan for your issue should look like this:

1.Find and select the job that has the VM-object you’re going to exclude.
2.Find and select the VM-object you’re going to exclude.
3.Exclude the VM-object from this job.
4.Delete the excluded object.
5.Delete restore point related to the VM.

In PowerShell console:

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$job=Get-VBRJob | ?{$_.Name –eq “Name of your job”}
$object=Get-VBRJobObject –job ($job)| ?{$_.Name –eq “Name of you VM-object”}
Remove-VBRJobObject –job ($job) –object ($object)
$object.delete()
Get-VBRReplica | ?{$_.Name –eq “Name of your job”}| Get-VbrRestorePoint| ?{$_.VMName –eq “Name of you VM”}|Remove-VBRRestorePoint

That’s all.

Truth be told, I’ve used this script in earnest. Still, for the purpose of complete safety I strongly recommend you trying it first in test environment before implementing.

Hope this helps.
Thanks.

[KarlW]

Hello there,

In our environment we base our backup jobs on datastorage (one job per datastore). Since VMs in a large enviornment like ours move around from time to time.

I would like to exclude a couple of VMs on all jobs we have. Is there a good cmd-let to manage exclusions in a fairly smooth manner?

[veremin]

Hello there,

In our environment we base our backup jobs on datastorage (one job per datastore). Since VMs in a large enviornment like ours move around from time to time.

I would like to exclude a couple of VMs on all jobs we have. Is there a good cmd-let to manage exclusions in a fairly smooth manner?

Hi, Karl.

Please take a look at the script provided above. I think, it's exactly want you need.

Furthermore, if you want to exclude this VMs only temporarily, just skip the part responsible for deleting the excluded object and for removing associated restore points.

Thanks.

[AlexL]

I've been struggling to remove an object, in my case a vmware folder, from an existing backup job. So far without any luck.

If anyone could please post a few lines of code I'd be a very happy guy.

Thanks,
Alex

[veremin]

Hi, Alex. The following code should meet your expectations:

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Asnp VeeamPSSnapin 
$Job = Get-VBRJob -name "Name of your Job"
$ObjectToRemove = $Job | Get-VBRJobObject -name "Name of a folder you’re going to exclude"
$ObjectToRemove | Remove-VBRJobObject #this line will exclude a given object
$ObjectToRemove.delete() #this line will remove a given object from the job completely

Hope this helps.
Thanks.

[ThomasMc]

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Remove-VBRJobObject 

Also has the -Completely flag which will save some code

[veremin]

I must have totally missed this switch; thanks for pointing it out.

So, the shortened version of the aforesaid script should look like this:

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Asnp VeeamPSSnapin 
$Job = Get-VBRJob -name "Name of your Job"
$ObjectToRemove = $Job | Get-VBRJobObject -name "Name of a folder you’re going to exclude"
$ObjectToRemove | Remove-VBRJobObject -completely 

Thanks.