Powershell command to import backups

[mwpreston]

Hi,

Wondering if anyone can help me here....I'm looking for the powershell command in order to import a backup file.
What we have is a veeam server setup onsite, and one remotely. We ship the backups to the remote site every night.
On the weekend what I hope to do is automate the task of importing these backups into the veeam server, and run a surebackup job on them...

I have the powershell installed, however the command import-vbrbackup keeps telling me i'm specifying the wrong value for server....not sure what this is supposed to be...

Thanks,
Mike

[Gostev]

Hi Mike, what command line do you specify?

[mwpreston]

I've actually got the syntax down for that command now and everything is working....Thanks,

[D_M_C]

Mike,

I too am looking to automate the backup imports on remote veeam server to test using SureBackup feature.
Can you post your script? We were hoping that this would be implemented in the newest version but still waiting.

Thanks,
David

[mwpreston]

Hi,

Here's what I have used thus far, but only have gotten as far as importing the backups.....a good starter for you though...

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Add-PSSnapin VeeamPSSnapin

$vbrServer = Get-VBRServer | where {$_.Type -eq "Local"}
$direct = "H:\"
$file = Get-ChildItem H:\*.vbk | %{$_.Name}
$fullfile = $direct += $file

Import-vbrbackup -server $vbrServer -FileName $fullfile

exit

Hopefully that gets you going. If you ever get it complete post back to this forum, i'd love to have the full script.

[UNHStorage]

I needed to import a large amount of backup files that were in a remote Backup Repository not connected directly to the Veeam server

Here is the script I am using to import individual backup folders and all VBK files in it

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Add-PSSnapin VeeamPSSnapin

$vbrServer = (Get-VBRServer -Name server.domain.local).Name						#FQDN of server that has the directory of files needing to be imported
$direct = "R:\Name_of_Folder\"												#Define Directory location on the remote server
$filePath = Get-ChildItem \\$vbrServer\r$\Name_of_Folder\*.vbk | %{$_.Name}			#Populate the variable with all VBK files needing to be imported from the remote directory
$totalfiles = (Get-ChildItem \\$vbrServer\r$\Name_of_Folder\*.vbk | %{$_.Name}).Count	#Total number of files in the directory
$incre = 0																#Incremental counter variable

ForEach($file in $filePath)
	{
	$fullfile = "$direct" + "$file"											#Combines directory location and file name 
	$incre++															#Increment counter by 1
	Write-Host "Importing backup file $fullfile from $vbrServer file number $incre"		#Displays in terminal window the current file being imported and its position in line
	Import-vbrbackup -server $vbrServer -FileName $fullfile						#Performs import of file
	Write-Host "Successfully imported file $incre of $totalfiles"						#Displays on the screen the file import count.
	}
exit

I am sure there are ways to be more efficient with the PowerShell script, and I look forward to seeing them. But, this script is currently performing the *.vbk file import for a few thousand files that I needed pulled back into the GUI so I am right now.

[dellock6]

Maybe this one can help too:
https://github.com/VeeamHub/powershell/ ... rt-Backups
The code was written with another use case in mind, but the scan and import commands are in there.

Luca