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-VBRImportedEncryptedBackup

Looks for imported encrypted backups.

Get-VBRImportedEncryptedBackupHint

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-VBRBackgroundRetention

Performs background retention for backups.

Enable-VBRBackgroundRetention

Enables previously disabled background retention for backups.

Disable-VBRBackgroundRetention

Disables background retention for backups.

Get-VBRSOBRObjectStorageBackup

Returns backups available in archive extents and capacity extents of scale-out backup repositories.