Managing Backups

You can use the cmdlet in this topic to perform the following operations:

Cmdlet	Operation
Get-VBRBackup	Returns backups.
Get-VBRGoogleCloudBackup	Returns backups of Google Cloud VM instances.
Get-VBRBackupFile	Returns backup files.
Remove-VBRBackup	Removes backup files.
Remove-VBRBackupFile	Removes missing backup files from the Veeam Backup & Replication configuration database.
Import-VBRBackup	Imports backup files to Veeam Backup & Replication.
Upgrade-VBRBackup	Upgrades the backup chain format of backups from per-machine backup with single metadata file (legacy format) to per-machine backup with separate metadata files.
Detach-VBRBackup	Detaches backups from the job they belong to.
Move-VBRBackup	Moves all backups of a job to another repository or specific workloads and their backups to another job.
Copy-VBRBackup	Copies backups to a repository or local or shared folder.
Start-VBRDownloadBackupFile	Starts to download the backup files from the object storage.
Start-VBROffloadBackupFile	Starts to move the backup files to the object storage.
Set-VBREncryptedBackupPassword	Decrypts imported encrypted backups.
Get-VBREncryptedBackup	Looks for imported encrypted backups.
Remove-VBREncryptedBackup	Removes selected encrypted backups.
Get-VBREncryptedBackupHint	Looks for password hints for imported encrypted backups.
Start-VBRDownloadTenantBackup	Downloads tenant backups from capacity tier to performance tier.
Get-VBRCloudUnavailableBackupFile	Returns a list of backup files that are no longer available in the cloud repository.
Forget-VBRCloudUnavailableBackupFile	Removes backup files that are no longer available from a cloud repository.
Get-VBRDeletedArchivedBackupFile	Returns a list of backup files from insider protection.
Download-VBRDeletedArchivedBackupFile	Retrieves backup files from insider protection.
Get-VBRDeletedDehydratedBackupFile	Returns a list of backup files from capacity tier.
Rehydrate-VBRDeletedBackupFile	Retrieves backup files from capacity tier.
Get-VBRCloudTenantBackup	Returns non-encrypted backups of AD tenants and tenants managed by the Service Provider.
Apply-VBRIndependentRetention	Performs background retention for backups.
Enable-VBRIndependentRetention	Enables previously disabled background retention for backups.
Disable-VBRIndependentRetention	Disables background retention for backups.
Get-VBRSOBRObjectStorageBackup	Returns backups available in archive extents and capacity extents of scale-out backup repositories.