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Tape Jobs

You can create and run tape jobs from your command line.

Tape Jobs Important!

Veeam PowerShell terminates support for restoring from tape archives. The tape restore cmdlets are obsolete. They will work, but it is recommended to perform the tape restore operation with Veeam Backup & Replication UI for full functionality.

Tape Jobs

Operation	VMware	Hyper-V
Creates a backup to tape job or a GFS job	Add-VBRBackupToTapeJob
Creates a file to tape job	Add-VBRFileToTapeJob
Returns tape jobs	Get-VBRTapeJob
Creates an object containing files for file to tape job	New-VBRFileToTapeObject
Modifies a selected backup to tape job or a GFS job	Set-VBRBackupToTapeJob
Modifies a selected file to tape job	Set-VBRFileToTapeJob
Creates an active full backup for GFS job	Sync-VBRBackupToTapeJob

Tape Jobs Schedule

Operation	VMware	Hyper-V
Creates schedule for tape jobs or GFS jobs	New-VBRBackupToTapeScheduleOptions
Creates schedule for file to tape job	New-VBRFileToTapeBackupPolicy
Creates virtual full schedule	New-VBRFullBackupToTapePolicy
Creates GFS schedule	New-VBRTapeGFSScheduleOptions
Modifies GFS schedule	Set-VBRTapeGFSScheduleOptions