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New-VBRFullBackupOptions

Short Description

Creates an active full backup schedule for Veeam Agent backup jobs.

Applies to

Product Edition: Community, Standard, Enterprise, Enterprise Plus

Syntax

New-VBRFullBackupOptions [-Enable] [-ScheduleType <VBRFullBackupScheduleType> {Weekly | Monthly}] [-SelectedDays <DayOfWeek[]> {Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday}] [-DayNumber <VBRDayNumberInMonth> {First | Second | Third | Fourth | Last | OnDay}] [-DayOfWeek <DayOfWeek> {Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday}] [-DayOfMonth <string>] [-SelectedMonths <VBRMonth[]> {January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December}][<CommonParameters>]

Detailed Description

This cmdlet creates the VBRFullBackupOptions object that contains schedule for Veeam Agent backup jobs. You can use this object to set up the following types of schedules for Veeam Agent backup jobs:

HealthCheck schedules
Compact full backup schedules
Active full backup schedules

Parameters

Parameter	Description	Required	Position	Accept Pipeline Input	Accept Wildcard Characters
Enable	Indicates that the Veeam Agent backup job will create active full backups.	False	Named	False
ScheduleType	Specifies the active full backups schedule type. Monthly: the job will create an active full on selected days of the month. Weekly: the job will create an active full on selected days of the week.	False	Named	False
SelectedDays	For weekly backups. Specifies the day of the week when the job creates active full backups. Default: Saturday.	False	Named	False
DayNumber	For monthly backups. Specifies the day of the month when the job creates active full backups. First: the job will create an active full backup on the first specified day of the week for the selected months. Second: the job will create an active full backup on the second specified day of the week for the selected months. Third: the job will create an active full backup on the third specified day of the week for the selected months. Fourth: the job will create an active full backup on the fourth specified day of the week for the selected months. Last: the job will create an active full backup on the last specified day of the week for the selected months. OnDay: the job will create an active full backup on the selected day of the month. Use the DayOfMonth parameter to set the day.	False	Named	False
DayOfWeek	For monthly backups. Specifies the day of the week, when the job creates active full backups. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Default: Saturday.	False	Named	False
DayOfMonth	For monthly backups with the OnDay option. Specifies the day of the month, when the job creates active full backups. For example, on the 3rd day of November.	False	Named	False
SelectedMonths	Specifies the months, when the job creates active full backups. January February March April May June July August September October November December Default: all months are selected.	False	Named	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

Example 1

This command schedules a Veeam Agent backup job to create active full backups weekly. The job will create active full backups on Sunday and Wednesday.

New-VBRFullBackupOptions -Enable -ScheduleType Weekly -SelectedDays Sunday, Wednesday

Example 2

This command schedules the Veeam Agent backup job to create active full backups monthly. The job will create active full backups on the 15th of January, April and September.

New-VBRFullBackupOptions -Enable -ScheduleType Monthly -DayNumber OnDay -DayOfMonth 15 -SelectedMonths January, April, September