{"id":10979,"date":"2010-11-23T14:51:46","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T14:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10979"},"modified":"2010-11-23T14:51:46","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T14:51:46","slug":"backup-vmm-2008-r2-using-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10979","title":{"rendered":"Backup VMM 2008 R2 Using PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just found a handy page<\/a> with a Microsoft-written PowerShell script for backing up a System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 database.<\/p>\n

You start off by writing a script with two lines:<\/p>\n

$VMMServer = Get-VMMServer -ComputerName "<<insert the FQDN of your VMM server here>>"<\/em><\/p>\n

Backup-VMMServer \u2013Path "D:VMMBackups" -VMMServer $VMMServer<\/em><\/p>\n

In the MS example, you save that as C:MyScriptsBackupVMMDatabase.ps1. I\u2019ve tweaked it so it backs up the database to the D: drive which is probably the library drive and (hopefully) has plenty of free space.<\/p>\n

You can create a scheduled task to run the following command (one line) for VMM 2008 R2:<\/p>\n

PowerShell.exe -PSConsoleFile "C:Program FilesMicrosoft System Center Virtual Machine<\/em> Manager 2008 R2bincli.psc1" -Command ".’C:MyScriptsBackupVMMDatabase.ps1’"<\/em><\/p>\n

Otherwise, you can do this by hand in the Administration view \u2013> General, and clicking the Back Up Virtual Machine Manager task in the Actions pane.  You can also use a traditional SQL backup of the database.  And don\u2019t forget to backup the library file share!<\/p>\n

EDIT #1:<\/p>\n

You will need to change the PowerShell script execution policy<\/a>.  You can sign the script and se the policy to AllSigned.  Or you can set it to Unrestricted.<\/p>\n

Technorati Tags: System Center<\/a>,VMM<\/a>,Hyper-V<\/a>,Backup<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just found a handy page with a Microsoft-written PowerShell script for backing up a System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 database. You start off by writing a script with two lines: $VMMServer = Get-VMMServer -ComputerName "<<insert the FQDN of your VMM server here>>" Backup-VMMServer \u2013Path "D:VMMBackups" -VMMServer $VMMServer In the MS example, you … Continue reading “Backup VMM 2008 R2 Using PowerShell”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[55,181,193,196],"class_list":["post-10979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v","tag-backup","tag-hyper-v","tag-system-center","tag-vmm"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}