Forget unavailable backups via powershell?

[daniel_rogers]

Hello!

Just wondering if it is possible to trigger the 'Forget -> All unavailable backups' via powershell.

- I am using Veeam Agent for Windows
- Only performing 1 backup per week (FULL)
- Only wish to keep 1 week retention
- Powershell script runs weekly to delete files across the repo -le 7 days
- Kicks off a Rescan-VBREntity -AllRepositories afterwards to update the restore points as unavailable

It would be nice and clean if they could be forgotten/removed completely within the same process.

This is the manual documentation for the process: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... tml?ver=95

Any ideas?

[veremin]

You can remove unavailable backups from configuration, using Remove-VBRBackup cmdlet.

[daniel_rogers]

Hi Vladimir,

Thanks for replying. I saw that command but it will remove ALL the backups point. I wanted to run it in between the backup to disk and the tape kicking off to ensure it only writes the latest backup. That is a configurable option for the Veeam tape jobs but I don't know if it works 100%.

I might run Remove-VBRBackup across the Agent jobs pre-backup so it only makes one point anyway. Thanks!

[veremin]

Are you saying that even if you specify for Remove-VBRBackup only unavailable backup entities, the cmdlet will still remove whole backup chain?

[frankois]

Hi,
It's been 5 years since the last message, but problem is still on.
If I use Remove-VBRBAckup with option "FromDBIfSPUnavailable" (option "FromDisk " is mandatory to use it), it will delete all the backup chain.
I have not found any powershell command to "forget all unavailable restore points". The only way I found is to run it through the application.

François.

[oleg.feoktistov]

Hi François,

Have a look at Remove-VBRBackupFile cmdlet available starting from v11a.

Best regards,
Oleg

[frankois]

Hi Oleg,

Thanks so much, this is the command I needed, how could I miss it when I read the doc?! Looking for documentation a Friday afternoon was not a good idea
Anyway, here is the codeI used to forget unavailable backups (if it can help any veeam user) :

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Get-VBRBackup -Name "<NAME OF THE BACKUP>" | Get-VBRBackupFile | ?{$_.IsAvailable -eq $false} | %{
    Remove-VBRBackupFile -backupFile $_ -Confirm:$false
}

Once again, thanks a lot, and have a nice week-end.
Regards.

[saikumar bandi]

Hi Oleg

I am using Veeam 12.3 and i have tried the above mentioned code. While executing the code i can see that the unavailable images are being removed from Veeam DB but post SOBR Rescan i see the changes being reverting back and the same unavailable images exists appear in the DB. Not sure why this is happening.

Kind Regards
SaiKumar

[david.domask]

Hi saikumar bandi, welcome to the forums.

The behavior there does not sound expected and more like a technical issue. Please open a Support Case and let Support review the debug logs. Reproduce the issue and note the date/time of the test, then export logs using the 3rd radio button to select from hosts; select the Veeam server itself to export from.

Please share your case number once created. Thanks!