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Start-VBRQuickBackup

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    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.