Simple Request: Generate a list of restore points

[meeyou]

Get-VBRRestorePoint <jobname>?

[tsightler]

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Get-VBRBackup -Name <jobname> | Get-VBRRestorePoint

[meeyou]

Nice. Thank you.

Any parameters for sorting results?

[Sethbartlett]

It's actually done on the backups, not the jobs themselves.

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(Get-VBRBackup | Get-VBRRestorePoint) | Out-File "C:\RestorePoints.txt"

This should output a list of all the restore points to a "RestorePoints.txt" file on your C:\ drive.

[Martin9700]

Nice. Thank you.

Any parameters for sorting results?

Sorting can be done by piping the results into SORT:

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Get-VBRBackup -name "job name" | Get-VBRRestorePoint | Sort VmName

You can see all the available properties and methods by piping into Get-Member:

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Get-VBRBackup -name "job name" | Get-VBRRestorePoint | Get-Member

[meeyou]

Thanks so much, learning a ton about powershell in general from this thread.

[tsightler]

Nice. Thank you.

Any parameters for sorting results?

You have all the capabilities of Powershell at your fingertips for sorting/filtering:

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Get-VBRBackup -Name "<JobName>" | Get-VBRRestorePoint | Sort Name,CreationTime

Will produce output sorted by VM name and then creation date/time in ascending order.

I prefer a little more complex where name is sorted ascending, and creation time in descending order, so that VMs are in alphabetical order, but most recent restore points are listed first:

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