Automating restoring disks to a second server

[anthony.tiley]

I have created a script for the restoration of disks from VM-A to a VM-B, however upon running it prompts to allow the overwriting of the existing disks on VM-B. It has a few disks, and prompts inbetween each disk. I was hoping to automate this so that every set amount of days, it restores from VM-A to VM-B, without the need for any interaction. Is there a way to silence the pop ups?

Script as below (names generalised)...

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$backup = "BackupJob"
$promrestorepoint = Get-VBRBackup -Name "BackupJob" | Get-VBRRestorePoint -Name VM-A | Select-Object -Last 1
$promdisks = Get-VBRViVirtualDevice -RestorePoint $promrestorepoint
$server = Get-VBRServer -Name "VMHost"
$promlabserver = Find-VBRViEntity -DatastoresAndVMs -Server $server -Name VM-B"
foreach ($disk in $promdisks) {
$prommappingrule = New-VBRViVirtualDeviceMappingRule -SourceVirtualDevice $disk
if ($disk -eq $promdisks[-1]) {
Start-VBRViVirtualDiskRestore -RestorePoint $promrestorepoint -VirtualDeviceMapping $prommappingrule -TargetVM $promlabserver[0] -Reason Sandbox -PowerOn
} else {
Start-VBRViVirtualDiskRestore -RestorePoint $promrestorepoint -VirtualDeviceMapping $prommappingrule -TargetVM $promlabserver[0] -Reason Sandbox
}
}

I'm by no means a scripting expert... I just want to silence or automatically accept the prompts that appear for the overwriting of disks on VM-B

[david.domask]

Hi @anthony.tiley, I've not tried it, but does the -Force parameter help you here?

Edit: just tested, went without confirmation with -Force.