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Set-VBRBackupToTapeJob

Short Description

Modifies backup to tape job or a GFS job.

Applies to

Platform: VMware, Hyper-V

Product Edition: Enterprise, Enterprise Plus

Syntax

This cmdlet provides three parameter sets.

  • For modifying all kinds of tape jobs without editing media poos:

Set-VBRBackupToTapeJob -Job <VBRBackupToTapeJob> [-Name <string>] [-Description <string>] [-EjectCurrentMedium] [-ExportCurrentMediaSet] [-ExportDays <DayOfWeek[]> {Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday}] [-FullBackupPolicy <VBRFullBackupToTapePolicy>] [-ScheduleOptions <VBRBackupToTapeScheduleOptions>] [-Object <Object[]>] [-ProcessIncrementalBackup] [-UseHardwareCompression] [-WaitPeriod <timespan>] [-WaitForBackupJob] [-NotificationOptions <VBRNotificationOptions>] [-JobScriptOptions <VBRJobScriptOptions>] [-AlwaysCopyFromLatestFull] [-PassThru]  [<CommonParameters>]

  • For modifying a tape job targeted to a non-GFS media pool:

Set-VBRBackupToTapeJob -Job <VBRBackupToTapeJob> [-Name <string>] [-Description <string>] [-EjectCurrentMedium] [-ExportCurrentMediaSet] [-FullBackupMediaPool <VBRTapeMediaPool>] [-IncrementalBackupMediaPool <VBRTapeMediaPoolBase>] [-ExportDays <DayOfWeek[]> {Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday}] [-FullBackupPolicy <VBRFullBackupToTapePolicy>] [-ScheduleOptions <VBRBackupToTapeScheduleOptions>] [-Object <Object[]>] [-ProcessIncrementalBackup] [-UseHardwareCompression] [-WaitPeriod <timespan>] [-WaitForBackupJob] [-NotificationOptions <VBRNotificationOptions>] [-JobScriptOptions <VBRJobScriptOptions>] [-AlwaysCopyFromLatestFull] [-PassThru]  [<CommonParameters>]

  • For modifying a tape job targeted to a GFS media pool:

Set-VBRBackupToTapeJob -Job <VBRBackupToTapeJob> [-Name <string>] [-Description <string>] [-EjectCurrentMedium] [-ExportCurrentMediaSet] [-GFSMediaPool <VBRTapeGFSMediaPool>] [-ExportDays <DayOfWeek[]> {Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday}] [-FullBackupPolicy <VBRFullBackupToTapePolicy>] [-ScheduleOptions <VBRBackupToTapeScheduleOptions>] [-Object <Object[]>] [-ProcessIncrementalBackup] [-UseHardwareCompression] [-WaitPeriod <timespan>] [-WaitForBackupJob] [-NotificationOptions <VBRNotificationOptions>] [-JobScriptOptions <VBRJobScriptOptions>] [-AlwaysCopyFromLatestFull] [-GFSScheduleOptions <VBRTapeGFSScheduleOptions>] [-PassThru]  [<CommonParameters>]

Related Commands

Get-VBRJob

Get-VBREPJob

Get-VBRBackupRepository

Get-VBRTapeMediaPool

New-VBRFullBackupToTapePolicy

New-VBRBackupToTapeScheduleOptions

Get-VBRBackupRepository

New-VBRNotificationOptions

New-VBRJobScriptOptions

Return Type

VBRBackupToTapeJob

Detailed Description

This cmdlet modifies a selected backup to tape job or a GFS job. To modify settings, you need to enter the corresponding parameters with new values. The parameters that you omit will remain unchanged.

Parameters

Parameter

Description

Required

Position

Accept
Pipeline
Input

Accept
Wildcard
Characters

Job

Specifies the backup to tape job to which you want to apply new settings.

Accepts VBRBackupToTapeJob or TapeJob objects, GUID or string type.

True

Named

False

False

Name

Specifies the name you want to assign to the backup to tape job.

Accepts string type.

False

Named

False

False

Description

Specifies the description of the backup to tape job.

If not set, Veeam Backup & Replication will enter date and time of creation by default.

False

Named

False

False

Eject
Current
Medium

Indicates that the tape(s) will be automatically ejected from drive after the job finishes.

The ejected tape is moved to a standard library slot.

False

Named

False

False

Export
Current
MediaSet

Indicates that the tapes belonging to the media set will be automatically placed to Import/Export (Mail) slot for further export. Use the ExportDays parameter to set days on which you want to export tapes.

If you use this parameter, but do not set the ExportDays parameter, the tapes will be exported every day.

False

Named

False

False

Full
Backup
Media
Pool

For non-GFS jobs.

Specifies the media pool where you want to store full backups produced by this tape job.

Accepts VBRTapeMediaPool object, GUID or string type.

True

Named

False

False

Incremental
Backup
Media
Pool

For non-GFS jobs.

Used to set media pool for the ProcessIncrementalBackup parameter.

Specifies the media pool where you want to store incremental backups produced by this tape job.

Accepts VBRTapeMediaPool object, GUID or string type.

False

Named

False

False

GFSMedia
Pool

For GFS jobs.

Specifies the target GFS media pool.

Accepts VBRTapeGFSMediaPool object, GUID or string type.

True

Named

False

False

ExportDays

Used to set days for exporting tapes for the ExportCurrentMediaSet parameter.

Specifies days on which the tapes written by this tape job will be automatically exported: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

False

Named

False

False

FullBackup
Policy

Specifies virtualized synthetic full backup for tape settings.

Accepts VBRFullBackupToTapePolicy object.

False

Named

False

False

Schedule
Options

Specifies backup to tape job schedule.

Default:

  • Enabled: False.
  • Type: Daily.
  • DailyOptions: Type: SelectedDays, Period: 18:00, DayOfWeek: Saturday.
  • MonthlyOptions: Period: 22:00, DayNumberInMonth: Fourth, DayOfWeek: Saturday, Months: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.
  • ScheduleOptions: From Sunday to Saturday, from 00:00 to 23:00, Enabled: True.      
  • JobId: Null.

False

Named

False

False

Object

Specifies the backup job or backup repository that will be the source for this tape job.

Accepts CBackupJob, VBREPJob or CBackupRepository objects.

You can assign multiple jobs or repositories to this object.

False

Named

False

False

Process
Incremental
Backup

Indicates that this tape job will archive incremental backups.

Use the IncrementalBackupMediaPool parameter to specify a separate media pool for storing incremental backups. If you do not set the IncrementalBackupMediaPool parameter, incremental backups will be stored to the media pool the you set for full backups.

False

Named

False

False

UseHardware
Compression

Indicates that tape library must perform hardware compression for archives. Do not use this option for archiving Veeam backups or other already compressed files.

False

Named

False

False

WaitPeriod

Used to set time period for the WaitForBackupJob parameter.

Specifies the time period for which the tape job must wait for the source backup jobs to finish.

Can be set to 1-777 minutes.

Accepts TipeSpan, integer or string types.

False

Named

False

False

WaitFor
BackupJob

Indicates that the tape job must wait for the source backup job to finish. Use the WaitPeriod parameter to set the time period.

False

Named

False

False

Notification
Options

Specifies the email notification options.

Accepts VBRNotificationOptions object.

False

Named

False

False

JobScript
Options

Specifies scripting options.

Accepts VBRJobScriptOptions object.

False

Named

False

False

AlwaysCopy
FromLatest
Full

Indicates that on each run the tape job must copy only the latest backup chain. Otherwise, on each run the tape job will copy all restore points produced by the source backup job(s) that are available on disk.

False

Named

False

False

GFS
Schedule
Options

Specifies the schedule settings for the GFS media pool.

Accepts the VBRTapeGFSScheduleOptions object.

False

Named

False

False

<CommonParameters>

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

Example

This command sets a new media pool for the incremental backups.

  1. Run Get-VBRTapeMediaPool. Save it to the $newpool variable.
  2. Run Set-VBRBackupToTapeJob. Get the job with Get-VBRTapeJob and pipe it down. Use the $newpool variable.

PS C:\PS> $newpool = Get-VBRTapeMediaPool -Name "Incremental Backups"

PS C:\PS> Get-VBRTapeJob -Name "Daily WebApp Backup" | Set-VBRBackupToTapeJob -IncrementalBackupMediaPool $newpool