Import orphaned vbk files from Storeonce Catalyst store

[rpop]

Hello all,

Is there a way to Import in Veeam B&R a hundred of orphaned .vbk files (no .vbm file anymore) residing in a catalyst store ?
My goal is to move in an effective way these .vbk files from a storeonce to an other,

I already know catalyst copy feature isn't possible for that because it works only on change (Veeam flag).
I also tried to add source and target repo in a SOBR, and maintenance mode+evacuate, but as expected doesn't work because .vbk files are unknown for Veeam B&R.

Any other idea ?

Thank you

Regards

Daniel

[foggy]

Hi Daniel, you can import these backups in Veeam B&R with the help of the Import-VBRBackup cmdlet - it has the “-Repository” parameter that allows specifying the particular repository name and this could be any supported type of repository, including StoreOnce. This will import the particular VBK and dependent increments, so should be either performed for every chain or scripted to enumerate all of them. This, however, will not allow you to use Catalyst Copy jobs for those as this type of job doesn't currently support imported backups - this is something that is on our roadmap. I can think of a workaround with the dummy backup job mapped to those backups but I'm not sure if the Catalyst Copy job will still pick them up – haven’t tried that.

[rpop]

Hello Foggy,

Thank you for your reply.

unfortunately when i use the "Get-VBRBackupRepository" cmdlet without parameter, the output command displays all Veeam repo, except the one that interests me, so i can't use the " Import-VBRBackup" cmdlet
This repo is really present in the list of "Backup repositories" on the Veeam console

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PS C:\Users> Get-VBRBackupRepository "[i]name_of_my_catalyst_store_repo[/i]"
Get-VBRBackupRepository : A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument '[i]name_of_my_catalyst_store_repo[/i]'.
At line:1 char:1
+ Get-VBRBackupRepository "[i]name_of_my_catalyst_store_repo[/i]"
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:) [Get-VBRBackupRepository], ParameterBindingException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PositionalParameterNotFound,Veeam.Backup.PowerShell.Cmdlets.GetVBRBackupRepository

[rpop]

Hello Foggy,

My bad !
Repo was still in SOBR, this the reason why i didn't see it with the "Get-VBRBackupRepository" cmdlet without the "scaleout" parameter.

it's ok !

Thank you

[joast]

Hi did you managed to import .VBK file from Catalyst with the PS command? I tried but get "Not Found" it dont like the FileName path I think?

Thanks
Jonas