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Remove-VBRProtectionGroup

Short Description

Removes protection groups.

Applies to

Product Edition: Community, Standard, Enterprise, Enterprise Plus

Syntax

Remove-VBRProtectionGroup -ProtectionGroup <VBRProtectionGroup[]> [-WhatIf] [-Confirm] [<CommonParameters>]

Detailed Description

This cmdlet removes selected protection groups from the Veeam Backup & Replication database. When you remove a protection group, Veeam Backup & Replication removes Veeam Agents from all computers of this group. You cannot undo this operation. Backups created for protected computers remain in backup repositories.

Remove-VBRProtectionGroup Note:

You cannot remove a protection group that is added to a Veeam Agent backup job.

Currently Veeam PowerShell does not allow you to create or manage Veeam Agent backup jobs, you can do it only with Veeam Backup & Replication UI.

Parameters

Parameter	Description	Required	Position	Accept Pipeline Input	Accept Wildcard Characters
ProtectionGroup	Specifies the array of protection groups. The cmdlet will remove these protection groups from Veeam Backup & Replication. Accepts VBRProtectionGroup[] type.	True	Named	True (ByValue, ByProperty Name)	False
WhatIf	Specifies whether the cmdlet writes a message that describes the effects of running the cmdlet without actually performing any action.	False	Named	False	False
Confirm	Specifies whether the cmdlet displays a prompt that asks if the user is sure that they want to continue.	False	Named	False	False

This cmdlet supports Microsoft PowerShell common parameters. For more information about common parameters, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=113216.

Return Type

None

Example 1

This example shows how to remove a protection group from Veeam Backup & Replication.

You will need to perform the following steps:

Run Get-VBRProtectionGroup to get protection group you want to remove. Save the result to the $group variable.
Run Remove-VBRProtectionGroup with the $group variable.

$group = Get-VBRProtectionGroup -Name "Support_East"

Remove-VBRProtectionGroup -ProtectionGroup $groups

Example 2

This example shows how to remove all protection groups with names containing "Support".

You will need to perform the following steps:

Run Get-VBRProtectionGroup to get protection groups you want to remove. Save the result to the $groups variable.
Run Remove-VBRProtectionGroup with the $groups variable.

$groups = Get-VBRProtectionGroup -Name *Support*

Remove-VBRProtectionGroup -ProtectionGroup $groups

Related Commands

Get-VBRProtectionGroup