I want to manage the deletion of recovery points using a script. I see an
example of how I can use the following PS script to remove all recovery
points but I have been unable to create a filter to uniquely identify a
specific recovery point to delete.

EXAMPLE 1

$pg = Get-ProtectionGroup -DPMServerName TestingServer
$ds = Get-Datasource -ProtectionGroup $pg
$rp = Get-RecoveryPoint -Datasource $ds
Remove-RecoveryPoint -RecoveryPoint $rp

This command removes all the recovery points for a data source.

What property is used as the unique ID for a recovery point?

Owen

You can filter out recovery points which you want to remove
Say if you want to remove all disk based recovery point then you could do
something like

$rp = get-recoveryPoint -Datasource $ds
$myrp = $rp | where-object {$_.Datalocation -eq "Disk"}
remove-recoverypoint $myrp

or you can also filter based on the RepresentedPointInTime (i.e the backup
time for a recovery source)
you could filter and get all the recovery points whose
RepresentedPointInTime is less than today - 7 to get all the Point In Times
which are more than a week old

Thanks,
Vikash

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get-recoveryPoint -Datasource $ds | where-object {
"OwenC" <OwenC> wrote in message
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Vikash,

Thanks for the response.

I tried creating a filter on RepresentedPointInTime but it doesn't work.
This the value that I actually want to filter on. I used a filter of
<where-object {$_.RepresentedPointInTime -eq "05/03/2008 6:00:42 PM"}>.
This time is an exact copy of what is displayed as one of the values for the
RepresentedPointInTime property.

Please post an example filter on RepresentedPointInTime so that I can see
how to implement it. I also tried using the UtcRepresentedPointInTime
property.

Owen


"Vikash Jain [MSFT]" <vikashj> wrote in message
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Hi Owen,

Here is the complete example cmdlets for your case, these are working fine.
I have verified these on my system.

$pg = Get-ProtectionGroup -DPMServerName TestingServer
$ds = Get-Datasource -ProtectionGroup $pg
$rp = Get-RecoveryPoint -Datasource $ds | where
{$_.RepresentedPointInTime -eq "3/6/2008 10:07:27 PM"}
remove-recoverypoint $rp

make sure you are passing correct $pg and $ds here. As if your system has
more than one PG or more than one DS protected you need to filter them also.

do let me know if you require more info.

Thanks,
Mukul

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"OwenC" <OwenC> wrote in message
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Mukul,

Thanks. I was using the same filter as you were but the problem seems to be
that the leading zero that is shown with the day and month when the
RepresentedPointInTime property is displayed can't be used the property is
being used in a filter.

Here are some PS one liners relevant to this type operation:

* Display all recovery points on the server TestingServer
Get-ProtectionGroup -DPMServerName TestingServer | %{Get-Datasource
-ProtectionGroup $_} | %{Get-RecoveryPoint -Datasource $_}

* Display all recovery points on the server TestingServer for the protection
group TestProtectionGroup
Get-ProtectionGroup -DPMServerName TestingServer | where {$_.FriendlyName
-eq "TestProtectionGroup"} | %{Get-Datasource -ProtectionGroup $_} |
%{Get-RecoveryPoint -Datasource $_}

* Display only the recovery point on the server TestingServer for the
protection group TestProtectionGroup for a specific time (day and month
values can't have leading zeros)
Get-ProtectionGroup -DPMServerName TestingServer | where {$_.FriendlyName
-eq "TestProtectionGroup"} | %{Get-Datasource -ProtectionGroup $_} |
%{Get-RecoveryPoint -Datasource $_} | where {$_.RepresentedPointInTime -eq
"3/5/2008 6:00:42 PM"}

* Delete only the recovery point on the server TestingServer for the
protection group TestProtectionGroup for a specific time
Get-ProtectionGroup -DPMServerName TestingServer | where {$_.FriendlyName
-eq "TestProtectionGroup"} | %{Get-Datasource -ProtectionGroup $_} |
%{Get-RecoveryPoint -Datasource $_} | where {$_.RepresentedPointInTime -eq
"3/5/2008 6:00:42 PM"} | %{Remove-RecoveryPoint $_}



"Mukul Shekhawat [MSFT]" wrote:
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