List Restore Point With Job Description Or Name .vmdk

[Christophe7982]

Hi All,

I need to create a Job to export my backup on a USB Hard Drive, so i created a Job with file copy, but i would like to have the inventory of all backup in this export.

I think it's possible to launch a powershell script at the end of the export Job to list all restore point with the name of the .vmdk or the name + the description of the backup job and at the end of this script, i would like delete all backup in the veeam 'database' who have been copied.

For the moment i have the liste of the VM + the date of creation and the type (increment or full) (thanks to tsightler for this line of powershell)

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Get-VBRBackup -Name "<JobName>" | Get-VBRRestorePoint | Sort Name,@{Expression = {$_.CreationTime}; Ascending = $false}

Thanks in advance
Best Regards,
Christophe

[veremin]

The description of a given job can be gotten this way:

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Asnp VeeamPSSnapin
$Job = Get-VBRJob -Name "Name of a Backup Job" 
$Job.Description

i would like delete all backup in the veeam 'database' who have been copied.

So, you're trying to delete from Veeam Database any reference to restore points that have been already copied to USB Hard Drive, arent' you?

Thanks.

[Christophe7982]

Thanks v.Eremin for your reply,

So, you're trying to delete from Veeam Database any reference to restore points that have been already copied to USB Hard Drive, arent' you?

Yes,

when i try

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$Job = Get-VBRBackup -Name "backup1" 
$Job.Description

i have nothing, but the first line works.
do you know why ?

Thanks in advance,

Best Regards,
Christophe

[Christophe7982]

i have some informations in the description field ... stange

Christophe

[veremin]

There must have been a typo in the line I provided. It’s Get-VBRJob that should be used instead of Get-VBRBackup:

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$Job = Get-VBRJob -name "Name of your Backup Job"
$Job.Description 

Thanks.

[Christophe7982]

Perfect, thanks a lot !

I'm searching to remove the backup who as copied, do you know how i can do it ?

Thanks in advance,
Best Regards,
Christophe

[veremin]

I'm searching to remove the backup who as copied, do you know how i can do it ?

Acctually, the process of restore points deletion should be handled solely by the specified retention policy. Otherwise, you will face numerous issues of failing backup/replication jobs, etc.

Thanks.

[Christophe7982]

and if i delete it manually ?

[veremin]

As mentioned, it’s retention policy that should be responsible for deleting of restore points. Manual deletion will lead to failing backup jobs. Thanks.

[Christophe7982]

ok thanks,
this could be a problem, because i need to export all backup each month ...

[veremin]

What backup mode is being used? Reversed or Forward incremental on?

If it’s reversed method that is being leveraged, you can set retention policy to 1 in the end of the script and the following job run will delete all previous restore points.

Thanks.

[Christophe7982]

it's incremental with one full by month

[veremin]

In this case, you might want to set (within the script) retention policy to 2 and run the script the day before active full takes place. Thus, after first incremental run previous restore points (that have been already copied to external device) will be deleted.

In fact, you can set retention policy to 1, instead, and this guarantees that previous restore points will be deleted once full backup is created. However, I advice you against, since such specification (1 restore points to keep) might lead to unexpected consequences should the job be retried.

Thanks.