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title: "Updated Cmdlets"
description: "This section contains information on cmdlets updated in Veeam PowerShell v12.1. In this version, you can use new parameter sets to perform the following actions: Roll back checkpoints in object storage repositories for the specified cloud tenant..."
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# Updated Cmdlets

This section contains information on cmdlets updated in Veeam PowerShell v12.1.

## Backup Infrastructure Components

### Object Storage Repositories

In this version, you can use new parameter sets to perform the following actions:

- Roll back checkpoints in object storage repositories for the specified cloud tenant backup.
- Synchronize the state of backup chains on extents for the specified tenant backup.

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### Updated Cmdlets

<table style="width:100%;" class="Blue_Table">
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <th style="width:15%;">
      <p>Cmdlet</p>
    </th>
    <th style="width:30%;">
      <p>Operation</p>
    </th>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="width:15%; height:31px;">
      <p><a href="deleted.md" class="T_Filenames">Sync-VBRObjectStorageRepositoryEntityState</a></p>
    </td>
    <td style="height:31px;">
      <p>New parameter set added: <span class="T_Filenames">Sync-VBRObjectStorageRepositoryEntityState -TenantBackupId &lt;Guid&gt; -PointInTime &lt;DateTime&gt; [-RunAsync] [&lt;CommonParameters&gt;]</span></p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="width:15%; height:31px;">
      <p><span class="T_Filenames">Sync-VBRSOBREntityState</span></p>
    </td>
    <td style="height:31px;">
      <p>New parameter set added: <span class="T_Filenames">Sync-VBRSOBREntityState -TenantBackupId &lt;Guid&gt; -PointInTime &lt;DateTime&gt; [-ArchiveTier] [-RunAsync] [&lt;CommonParameters&gt;]</span></p>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

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## Backup

In this version, the following scenarios are supported:

- You can remove backups and restore points from archive tier and capacity tier.
- When you copy backups to a repository, a local or shared folder, you can specify the type of the retention policy and the period of time to keep the copied data.

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### Updated Cmdlets

<table style="width:100%;" class="Blue_Table">
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <th style="width:15%;">
      <p>Cmdlet</p>
    </th>
    <th style="width:30%;">
      <p>Operation</p>
    </th>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="width:15%; height:31px;">
      <p><a href="remove-vbrbackup.md" class="T_Filenames">Remove-VBRBackup</a></p>
    </td>
    <td style="height:31px;">
      <p>Parameter updated: The <span class="T_Filenames">Backup</span> parameter accepts the <a href="vbrsobrobjectstoragebackup.md" class="T_Filenames">VBRSOBRObjectStorageBackup</a> type.</p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="width:15%; height:31px;">
      <p><a href="remove-vbrrestorepoint.md" class="T_Filenames">Remove-VBRRestorePoint</a></p>
    </td>
    <td style="height:31px;">
      <p>Parameter updated: The <span class="T_Filenames">Oib</span> parameter accepts the <a href="vbrsobrobjectstoragerestorepoint.md" class="T_Filenames">VBRSOBRObjectStorageRestorePoint</a> type.</p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="width:15%; height:31px;">
      <p><a href="copy-vbrbackup.md" class="T_Filenames">Copy-VBRBackup</a></p>
    </td>
    <td style="height:31px;">
      <p>New parameters added: <span class="T_Filenames">RetentionPeriodType</span>, <span class="T_Filenames">RetentionNumber</span></p>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

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## Jobs

### Sessions

In this version, you can get new types of jobs sessions.

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### Updated Cmdlets

<table style="width:100%;" class="Blue_Table">
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <th style="width:15%;">
      <p>Cmdlet</p>
    </th>
    <th style="width:30%;">
      <p>Operation</p>
    </th>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="width:15%; height:31px;">
      <p><a href="get-vbrsession.md" class="T_Filenames">Get-VBRSession</a></p>
    </td>
    <td style="height:31px;">
      <p>Parameter update: The <span class="T_Filenames">Type</span> parameter includes new enums for the following types of job session: </p>
      <ul>
        <li class="Table_List"><span class="T_Filenames">SureBackupLite </span></li>
        <li class="Table_List"><span class="T_Filenames">SureBackupLite</span></li>
        <li class="Table_List"><span class="T_Filenames">SureBackupLiteAdHoc</span></li>
        <li class="Table_List"><span class="T_Filenames">SimpleCopyExternalBackupWatcher </span></li>
        <li class="Table_List"><span class="T_Filenames">BestPracticeAnalyzer</span></li>
        <li class="Table_List"><span class="T_Filenames">MalwareDetection</span></li>
        <li class="Table_List"><span class="T_Filenames">SureBackupLite</span></li>
        <li class="Table_List"><span class="T_Filenames">SureBackupLiteAdHoc</span></li>
        <li class="Table_List"><span class="T_Filenames">KmsKeyRotation</span></li>
        <li class="Table_List"><span class="T_Filenames">ShadowAncillarySession</span></li>
      </ul>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

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## Replication

In this version, you can perform failback of the replica to a specific VM for the following scenarios:

- When you perform failback of VMware VMs to a production host.
- When you perform failback from a CDP replica to the production VM.

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### Updated Cmdlets

<table style="width:100%;" class="Blue_Table">
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <th style="width:15%;">
      <p>Cmdlet</p>
    </th>
    <th style="width:30%;">
      <p>Operation</p>
    </th>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="width:15%; height:31px;">
      <p><a href="start-vbrvireplicafailback.md" class="T_Filenames">Start-VBRViReplicaFailback</a></p>
    </td>
    <td style="height:31px;">
      <p>New parameter added: <span class="T_Filenames">VmName</span></p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="width:15%; height:31px;">
      <p><a href="start-vbrcdpreplicafailback.md" class="T_Filenames">Start-VBRCDPReplicaFailback</a></p>
    </td>
    <td style="height:31px;">
      <p>New parameter added: <span class="T_Filenames">VmName</span></p>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

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## SureBackup

In this version, you can exclude specific VMs from processing by the SureBackup job,

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### Updated Cmdlets

<table style="width:100%;" class="Blue_Table">
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <th style="width:15%;">
      <p>Cmdlet</p>
    </th>
    <th style="width:30%;">
      <p>Operation</p>
    </th>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="width:15%; height:31px;">
      <p><a href="new-vbrsurebackupvm.md" class="T_Filenames">New-VBRSureBackupVM</a></p>
    </td>
    <td style="height:31px;">
      <p>New parameters added: <span class="T_Filenames">Exclude</span></p>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

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## Data Recovery

In this version, the following scenarios are supported:

- You can specify the backup proxy that you want to use during restore of the entire VMware VM.
- You can define whether to mount disks to the original server and use it as a helper host when you run a restore session of Linux-based or Unix-based guest OS files.

::: dropdown
### Updated Cmdlets

<table style="width:100%;" class="Blue_Table">
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <th style="width:15%;">
      <p>Cmdlet</p>
    </th>
    <th style="width:30%;">
      <p>Operation</p>
    </th>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="width:15%; height:31px;">
      <p><a href="start-vbrrestorevm.md" class="T_Filenames">Start-VBRRestoreVM</a></p>
    </td>
    <td style="height:31px;">
      <p>New parameter added: <span class="T_Filenames">Proxy.</span></p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="width:15%; height:31px;">
      <p><a href="start-vbrlinuxfilerestore.md" class="T_Filenames">Start-VBRLinuxFileRestore</a></p>
    </td>
    <td style="height:31px;">
      <p>New parameters added: <span class="T_Filenames">MountToOriginalHost.</span></p>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

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## Agent Management

In this version, you can specify the Linux package type when you get Veeam Agent for Linux packages.

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### Updated Cmdlets

<table style="width:100%;" class="Blue_Table">
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <th style="width:15%;">
      <p>Cmdlet</p>
    </th>
    <th style="width:30%;">
      <p>Operation</p>
    </th>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="width:15%; height:31px;">
      <p><a href="get-vbrprotectiongrouplinuxpackage.md" class="T_Filenames">Get-VBRProtectionGroupLinuxPackage</a></p>
    </td>
    <td style="height:31px;">
      <p>New parameter added: <span class="T_Filenames">Type.</span></p>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

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