DL4300 Appliance
New-Snapshot
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Option
Description
on which to automatically create the archive (for
example, "Monday").
-dayofmonth
Use only for the "month" option of the "-
scheduletype" parameter. The day (number) of the
month on which to automatically create the archive
(for example, "15").
-time
The hour of the day when you want to create an
archive.
-initialpause
Optional. Specify this option if you want to initially
pause archiving after you configure the archiving
schedule.
Examples:
Archive all recovery points with creation dates starting from 04/30/2012 02:55 PM for all machines on the Core,
and replace pre-existing archived data pertaining to this Core:
>New-ScheduledArchive -core 10.10.10.10 -user administrator -password 23WE@#$sdd -path "d:\work\archive" -s
tartdate "04/30/2012 02:55 PM" -all -recycleaction replacethiscore
Archive recovery points that fall within a date range for two protected machines, and clear all archived data from
the directory before writing the new archive:
>New-ScheduledArchive -core 10.10.10.10 -user administrator -password 23WE@#$sdd -protectedserver "10.20.30.40" "20.20.10.1" -path "d:\work\archive" -startdate "04/30/2012 02:55 PM" -enddate "05/31/2012 11:00 AM" -recycleaction erasecompletely
Create an incremental archive for all recovery points with creation dates starting from 04/30/2012 02:55 PM for all
machines on the Core to the cloud account with the name "Amazon S3" and a container named "Container":
>New-ScheduledArchive -core 10.10.10.10 -user administrator -password 23WE@#$sdd -path "ArchiveOnCloud" -cloudaccountname "Amazon S3" -cloudcontainer "Container" -startdate "04/30/2012 02:55 PM" -all -recycleaction incremental
Parent topic
New-Snapshot
The
New-Snapshot
command forces a snapshot resulting in a data transfer for the current protected machine.
When you force a snapshot, the transfer will start immediately or will be added to the queue. Only the data that
has changed from a previous recovery point will be transferred. If there is no previous recovery point, all data on
the protected volumes will be transferred.
Usage
The usage for the command is as follows:
New-Snapshot [-all] | -protectedserver [machine name]] -core [host name] -user [user name] -password [password]
Command Options
The following table describes the options available for the
New-Snapshot
command:
Table 218. New-Snapshot command options
Option
Description
-?
Display this help message.
-all
Force all protected machines.
