Looking for help with exporting restore point for all VMs in a backup job

[acovello]

I am looking for some help with a PowerShelll script we're trying to use to export Restore Points out to a USB drive, and keep getting errors.

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Add-PSSnapin VeeamPSSnapin

$Jobs = Get-VBRJob -name "DC_Test"
#$Jobs = Get-VBRBackup -name "DC_Test"

foreach ($Job in $Jobs) {
Write-Host "Job: " -NonewLine
echo $Job.name
#Skip if Job is Disabled
if (! $job.info.IsScheduleEnabled) {
echo "Skipping disabled job..."
echo ""
continue
}

 $vms = $job.GetObjectsInJob()
  foreach ($vm in $vms) {
    Write-Host "VM: " -NonewLine
    echo $vm.Name
    $rp = Get-VBRRestorePoint -Name $vm.name | Sort-Object -Property CreationTime -Descending | Select -First 1
    Write-Host "RP Creation Time: " -NoNewLine
    echo $rp.CreationTime
    echo "Exporting backup to file..."
    #echo $rp
    Export-VBRBackup -RestorePoint $rp -Dir "C:\Export"
    }
    echo ""
    }

This job contains two systems (Domain controllers for testing). The first VM exports fine, but the second thriws an error because the VIB file already exists.

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Export-VBRBackup : The file 'C:\Export\DC_TestD2019-04-10T160035_84FF.vib' already exists.
At C:\Veeam export script\Exportv2.ps1:25 char:5
+     Export-VBRBackup -RestorePoint $rp -Dir "C:\Export"
+     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Export-VBRBackup], IOException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.IO.IOException,Veeam.Backup.PowerShell.Cmdlets.ExportVBRBackup

Is there a way to rename the output for each VM, or have it write to a folder dependant on the VM name?
Or am I going about this all wrong?

[jhoughes]

I’m assuming that you have 2 VMs in the backup job, but you are backing up to a repository which is NOT leveraging per-VM backup chains, correct?

If that is the case, you would only have a single restore point for every run of the job, regardless of how many VMs are within the job, so you would not want to run your loop as per-VM, as that is not how the data is contained in the repository.

Basically, your loop would be per restore point, rather than per VM. The number of restore points would be the number of objects to iterate through in your for each loop, since that is the number of objects, rather than the number of VMs.

[veremin]

Also, be aware that Export-VBRBackup is an old cmdlet that doesn't export restore point, as this function does, instead it copies backup files to the selected location. Thanks!