Script to Restore latest backup from portable drive
We are trying to write a script to automate the Restore of the most recent Windows Server Backup from a portable drive?
First part is to write a script to reload the backup catalog from the portable drive. What we have so far is:
$Bt = "\\?\Volume{58895c2e-a4f6-4143-8be0-83c858f516cc}\"
Restore-WBCatalog -BackupTarget $Bt -Force
But that doesn't work because it doesn't seem to like to volume label.
The second part is creating a command to start a WBAdmin restore using the latest latest volume to recover. This is where I could do with a few clues if anyone has any.
Thanks,
Nick
Hi Nike,
The error imply a wrong input type in the parameter "BackupTarget", which should be a type of "WBBackupTarget".
Please try to use the cmdlet "Get-WBCatalog", then pipe the result to the cmdlet "Restore-WBCatalog".
You can try the script below, please note I haven't tested:
$Policy = Get-WBPolicy
$Bt=Get-WBBackupTarget -Policy $Policy
Restore-WBCatalog -BackupTarget $Bt -Force
If there is no wbbackuptarget, please create a new one, to work with Backup and Restore in powershell, you can get cmdlets and good examples from here:
Windows Server Backup Cmdlets in Windows PowerShell
I hope this helps.
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