In Powershell is -FullBackup equivalent to an Active Full?

[cparker4486]

Hello,

The documentation doesn't contain the phrase "active full" but I see that Start-VBRJob has a parameter called -FullBackup. Are these one and the same?


Thanks.

[veremin]

Yep, you're right.

And syntax should be as the following:

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$Job = Get-VBRJob | ?{$_.name -eq "Name of your job"}
Start-VBRJob $Job -FullBackup

Hope this helps.
Thanks.

[cparker4486]

Great, thanks.

I wonder then, why is a full backup called "Active" in the job setup wizard?

[veremin]

I think, in order to distinguish it from synthetic full.

Thanks.

[cparker4486]

I have a followup question to this issue.

My regular jobs run on weekdays at 11PM. If I use PowerShell to run an active full on the 1st day of every month at 10:59PM, and the 1st happens to be on a weekday, will my PS job replace the regularly scheduled job or will they both jobs run?

As I understand it, active fulls schedule through the job setup wizard will replace the regular job so I wonder if this is also true for a job executed by PS.

[veremin]

You should think about this PS command as an analogue of manual action, when you right-click the given job and select “Active Full”.

If I use PowerShell to run an active full on the 1st day of every month at 10:59PM, and the 1st happens to be on a weekday, will my PS job replace the regularly scheduled job or will they both jobs run?

Assuming that your active full backup lasts longer than one minute, only it will be performed at this day and regular schedule will be discarded.

In contrast, let’s say that you executed Active Full via PS at 10-30, it took about an hour to complete, and this job was scheduled to run 14-00, then, regular schedule wouldn’t be replaced - an incremental run would take place at scheduled time.

Hope this helps.
Thanks.