Start-VBREntraIDLogsBackupFLRSession

Short Description

Starts a restore session to explore log files and folders that a log backup contains.

Applies to

Product Edition: Enterprise Plus, Veeam Universal License

Syntax

Start-VBREntraIDLogsBackupFLRSession -Backup <VBREntraIdLogsBackup> -Tenant <VBREntraIDTenant>  [<CommonParameters>]

Detailed Description

This cmdlet starts a log restore session. During this session, the cmdlet gets access to the log files and folders in the Entra ID log backup.

After you gain the access, you can use this session to restore specific files and folders stored in the log backup. For this, launch the following cmdlets:

Parameters

Parameters

Parameter

Description

Type

Required

Position

Accept
Pipeline
Input

Backup

Specifies the backup from which you want to get access to logs. You can further restore files from this backup.

Accepts the VBREntraIdLogsBackup object. To get this object, run the Get-VBREntraIDLogsBackup cmdlet.

True

Named

True (ByPropertyName, ByValue)

Tenant

Specifies the tenant whose logs you want to access.

Accepts the VBREntraIDTenant object. To get this object, run the Get-VBREntraIDTenant cmdlet.

True

Named

True (ByPropertyName)

RetrievalSettings

Specifies the retrieval policy settings. The cmdlet will use these settings to retrieve data from archive repositories.

Accepts the VBRUnstructuredBackupColdStorageRetrievalSettings object. To create this object, run the New-VBRUnstructuredBackupColdStorageRetrievalSettings cmdlet.

False

Named

False

Force

Defines that the cmdlet will modify settings of managed file shares without showing warnings in the PowerShell console.

SwitchParameter

False

Named

False

<CommonParameters>

This cmdlet supports Microsoft PowerShell common parameters. For more information on common parameters, see Microsoft Docs.

Output Object

The cmdlet returns the VBRUnstructuredBackupFLRSession object that contains properties of the log restore session.

Examples

Starting Log Restore Session

This example shows how to start a log restore session.

$tenant = Get-VBREntraIdTenant -AzureTenantId "xxxxx"

$logBackups = Get-VBREntraIDLogsBackup

$logRestoreSession = Start-VBREntraIDLogsBackupFLRSession -Backup $logBackups[0] -Tenant $tenant

Perform the following steps:

  1. Run the Get-VBREntraIdTenant cmdlet. Specify the AzureTenantId parameter value. Save the result to the $tenant variable.
  2. Run the Get-VBREntraIDLogsBackup cmdlet.

The Get-VBREntraIDLogsBackup cmdlet will return an array of backups. Mind the ordinal number of the necessary backup, for arrays it starts with 0. In our example, it is the first backup in the array.

  1. Run the Start-VBREntraIDLogsBackupFLRSession cmdlet. Specify the following settings:
  • Set the $logBackups[0] variable as the Backup parameter value.
  • Set the $tenant variable as the Tenant parameter value.
  • Save the result to the $logRestoreSession variable.

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