Breaking Changes

This section contains information on breaking changes in Veeam PowerShell v13. These changes cause Veeam PowerShell v13.1 to function differently and could affect the code.

Renamed Cmdlets

In this version, the following cmdlets are renamed:

Old Cmdlets

New Cmdlets

Apply-VBRIndependentRetention

Apply-VBRBackgroundRetention

Disable-VBRIndependentRetention

Disable-VBRBackgroundRetention

Enable-VBRIndependentRetention

Enable-VBRBackgroundRetention

Deleted Cmdlets

Immutability

In this version, you can no longer roll back checkpoints in object storage repositories to the previous state. This functionality is no longer available in Veeam Backup & Replication. The following cmdlets are removed from the Veeam PowerShell module:

  • Get-VBRObjectStorageRepositorySyncInterval
  • Sync-VBRNASBackupState
  • Sync-VBRObjectStorageRepositoryEntityState
  • Sync-VBRUnstructuredBackupState

Storage Systems

In this version, the HPE StoreVirtual storage systems are no longer available in Veeam Backup & Replication. The following cmdlets are removed from the Veeam PowerShell module:

  • Add-HP4Snapshot
  • Add-HP4Storage
  • Get-HP4Cluster
  • Get-HP4InfrastructureVolume
  • Get-HP4Snapshot
  • Get-HP4Storage
  • Get-HP4Volume
  • Set-HP4Storage
  • Sync-HP4Storage
  • Sync-HP4Volume
  • Remove-HP4Snapshot
  • Remove-HP4Storage

 

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