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Short Description
Evacuates backups from a scale-out backup repository extent.
Applies to
Platform: VMware, Hyper-V
Product Edition: Standard, Enterprise, Enterprise Plus
Syntax
Start-VBRRepositoryExtentBackupEvacuation -Extent <VBRRepositoryExtent[]> [-RunAsync] [<CommonParameters>] |
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Detailed Description
This cmdlet evacuates backups from a scale-out backup repository extent. When you evacuate backups, Veeam moves them to other extents according to the configured policy.
Parameters
Parameter | Description | Required | Position | Accept | Accept |
Extent | Specifies the scale-out repository extent from which you want to start evacuation. You can pass multiple extents with different policies and of different scale-out repositories. Accepts VBRRepositoryExtent object, ID or string (name of the backup repository that is used as extent). You can assign multiple extents to this object. | True | Named | True (by Value | True (for string) |
RunAsync | Indicates that the command returns immediately without waiting for the task to complete. | 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 evacuates backups from an extent.
- Run Get-VBRBackupRepository to get the repository. Use the ScaleOut parameter. Save it to the $scaleoutrepository variable.
- Run Set-VBRScaleOutBackupRepository with this variable. List the existing extents and the new repository.
