Windows Server backup copies

Question

Hi

I’m working on Windows Server backups daily and weekly with PowerShell and Set retention policy to 7 copies, till here completed successfully. I stuck at finding out no. of copies available on remote server.

I tryed wbadmin, get-wbbackupset commands in various ways but could not find the solution.

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-WBBackupSet -BackupTarget \testvm\WindowsImageBackup -MachineName testvm
Get-WBBackupSet : Cannot bind parameter 'BackupTarget'. Cannot convert the "\testvm\WindowsImageBackup" value of type "System.String" to type "Microsoft.Windows.ServerBackup.Commands.WBBackupTarget".
At line:1 char:31

• Get-WBBackupSet -BackupTarget \testvm\WindowsImageBackup -MachineNam ...
• ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
• CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [Get-WBBackupSet], ParameterBindingException
• FullyQualifiedErrorId : CannotConvertArgumentNoMessage,Microsoft.Windows.ServerBackup.Commands.GetWBBackupSet

Answer 1

Hi @Tech Azur ,

With the wbadmin command the following should get the available copies/versions: wbadmin get versions
The Get-WBBackupSet is basically the same as the above command, but it seems you have the parameters wrong, here's an example on how to use it:

$BackupLocation = New-WBBackupTarget -VolumePath D:
$Backups = Get-WBBackupSet -BackupTarget $BackupLocation

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Leon

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