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Start-VBRQuickBackup

Short Description

Performs QuickBackup.

Applies to

Platform: VMware, Hyper-V

Product Edition: Standard, Enterprise, Enterprise Plus

Syntax

Start-VBRQuickBackup -VM <IVmItem[]> [-Wait] [-WarningAction <ActionPreference>] [-WarningVariable <String>] [<CommonParameters>]

Related Commands

Find-VBRViEntity / Find-VBRHvEntity

Detailed Description

This cmdlet starts QuickBackup on selected VMs.

Quick backup performs on-demand incremental backup for VMs. The VM must be added to a backup job and have at least one full backup.

Parameters

Parameter

Description

Required

Position

Accept
Pipeline
Input

Accept
Wildcard
Characters

VM

Specifies the VMs for which you want to perform the QuickBackup.

You can add VMware or Hyper-V VMs.

Accepts CViVmItem or CHvVmItem objects.

You can assign multiple VMs to this object.

True

Named

True (by Value
FromPipeline, ValueFromPipeline
ByPropertyName)

False

Wait

Indicates that the command waits for the catalog process to complete before accepting more input.

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.