Instant Recovery stopping Veeam backups

[adrian.woodrup]

I'm not sure if this effects most people but a company pointed out that sometime an instant recovery was started (for testing or to convert to OVF) and was left running for a number of hours, this would overlap with the time the next backup was due to run causing the backup to stop from running. So I wrote this simple script to stop any running IR's.

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# Stop any running InstantRecovery Jobs before next backup starts
# Get the current running job(s)
$IR = Get-VBRInstantRecovery
# Select the Running IR VMs from the job
$IRStop = Get-VBRInstantRecovery | Where-Object {$IR.VMName}
# Checks to see if $IR has a value (i.e. if there is a IR running) if so stop it
$IfVMRunning = (!(test-path ('variable:'+$IR)))
If($IfVMRunning){
	Stop-VBRInstantRecovery $IRStop
	}

I realise this WILL be a problem for anyone in a DR situation that needs to run instant recovery for any reason, just thought I would share this if needed.