Today we speak about Veeam Backup & replication, including its temporary snapshots.
You may have already had a small Veeam bug and have to restart or at least make a retry of your backup jobs. In some cases, it may be that Veeam does not delete the snapshot that was taken, so you end up with a number of temporary snapshots that it would be good not to keep too long.
So we’ll see together how to identify these residual snapshots Veeam and especially how to remove them en masse!
Identifying temporary snapshots
To optimize our search we will go through the command line and use the very powerful PowerCLI of VMware! If you haven’t installed it yet, I advise you to go for a ride on the article I made about it, it will change your life! 🙂
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PS C: > Get-Snapshot -VM * -Name "VEEAM BACKUP *" | Format-Table -Property VM, Name |
Result (there are people!):
vCenter side it gives this:
Purging Temporary snapshots
To bulk remove these snapshots, always in command line, just run this:
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Get-Snapshot -VM * -Name "VEEAM BACKUP *" | Remove-Snapshot |
Answer “A” to the question asked, if you have multiple snapshots. A progress bar will also be displayed:
Hopefully that will have helped you well!
M.
Hi ! I’m Maxime. Founder and independant author of vDays.net. I have worked in service IT since 6 years ago, after a 5 years’ internship. Via this blog, I would like share and discuss with you on new technologies, especially on virtualization and VMware. If you want to know more about me, check out my “about me” page or follow me on Twitter and LinkedIn
