Ok so I finished writing my script for exporting recovery data to f: drive (local to DPM 2010 server) for all the servers (DPM 2010 Agents) I have 4 of them.
If any of you had the pleasure of doing this through GUI knows how painful it is... I fortunately was very lucky to be assigned to export (recover to network folder) 16 datasources from 4 different servers. After doing this for couple of days I started looking at cmdlets and found some scripts and hints on how to do this. and then...
This scripts loops through all the servers and all the datasource protected and recovers them to f: drive then it 7z the files and put in 7z folder it also date stamps folders and 7z files. You have to download 7za and place it in system32 folder in order for it to 7z the folders.
I am posting this script to that it might come handy to someone else out there.
I use this in production environment and it works fine but doesn’t mean it might work for you. So standard disclaimer use it at your own risk! ( I did not write some of the code and copied it from other user posts from this forum. Hopefully they won’t mind). You are free to modify and use the script.
It recovers SQL, System Protection and Exchange 2010. Please note I only export exchange recovery on 15th of every month you can change that. Search for “#Only run Exchange Recovery on 15th of every month. Otherwise Skip” and change the days below that.
# ====================================
# = DPM 2010 Recover to Drive looped =
# = for all servers and datasource. =
# ====================================
# Created: [01/12/12]
# By EvilWasp
#0 Time Stamp folders
$date = get-date
$TimeStamp = $date.ToShortDateString()
#Replace / as folder name cannot contain it.
$time = $TimeStamp.Replace("/", "-")
#1 You have to modify the below varibles to make it work for you.
#Below varibles
$DPMServerName = "Krait"
$DestinationLocation = "F:\Recovered\$time"
$Destination7z = "F:\7z\$time"
#2 Import DPM Shell if its not loaded.
If((Get-PSSnapIn -Name "Microsoft.DataProtectionManager.PowerShell" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -eq $null)
{
Add-PSSnapIn "Microsoft.DataProtectionManager.PowerShell"
Start-Sleep 5
}
#3 Get list of DPM Agents - Protected Group
$pg = Get-ProtectionGroup -DPMServerName $DPMServerName
#Count how many servers!
$pgc = $pg.count
#4 Start Function Recover it needs $i from $pg.
Function Recover ($i)
{
#if $i is not null then do the loop.
If ($i -ne $null)
{
$dsc = $ds.count #Counting how many datasource is available in array
#Loop through all the servers with ForLoop
For ($d=0; $d -le $dsc; $d++) #looping datasource for each servers
{
$dsn = $ds[$d]
#8 If & ElseIf Statments to find the write command for each recovery.
#Three different types -SQL, -SystemProtectionDataSource and -E14datasource for exchange 2010 (Use -Exchange) for older versions.
#There's -FileSystem as well which I havent used.
#-like is used with wildcard(*) to accomodate different versions of SQL i.e 2005, 2008 extra.
#find SQL server in each server
If ($dsn.Type.Name -like "SQL Server*")
{
#Recovery Options - Where to place recovered files - for SQL
$rop = New-RecoveryOption -TargetServer $DPMServerName -TargetLocation $DestinationLocation -RecoveryLocation CopyToFolder `
-SQL -RecoveryType restore
}
#find System Protection server
ElseIf ($dsn.Type.Name -like "System Protection*")
{
#Recovery Options - Where to place recovered files - for System Protection
$rop = New-RecoveryOption -TargetServer $DPMServerName -TargetLocation $DestinationLocation -RecoveryLocation CopyToFolder `
-SystemProtectionDataSource -RecoveryType restore
}
#find Exchange server
ElseIf ($dsn.Type.Name -like "Exchange Mailbox Database*")
{
#Only run Exchange Recovery on 15th of every month. Otherwise Skip.
If ($date.Day -eq 15)
{
#Recovery Options - Where to place recovered files - for Exchange 2010
$rop = New-RecoveryOption -TargetServer $DPMServerName -TargetLocation $DestinationLocation -RecoveryLocation CopyToFolder `
-E14datasource -ExchangeOperationType NoOperation -RecoveryType restore
}
#If its not the 15th of month then skip
Else
{
Continue
}
}
#If $dsn.Type.Name is nothing/null skip
Else
{
Continue
}
#Sort by latest on top Recovery Points.
$recoveryPoints = @(Get-RecoveryPoint -datasource $dsn | sort -property RepresentedPointInTime -Descending)
If ($recoveryPoints.Length -eq 0)
{
Write-Host "No recovery point available for" $dsn.Name -ForeGroundColor Yellow
}
Else
{
#Select the latest recovery point found on Array [0]
$latestRecoveryPoint = $RecoveryPoints[0]
#Recovering
Write-Host "Recovering" $dsn.Name
#Run Recovery Job
$recoveryJob = Recover-RecoverableItem -RecoverableItem $latestRecoveryPoint -RecoveryOption $rop -JobStateChangedEventHandler $jobStateChangeHandler
}
#If it failed!
If(!$recoveryJob)
{
Write-Host "Failure on invoking Recover-RecoverableItem" -ForeGroundColor Red
Continue
}
#Wait till the recovery job completes
while (! $recoveryJob.hasCompleted )
{
# Show a progress bar
Write-Host "." -NoNewLine
Start-Sleep 5
}
if($recoveryJob.Status -ne "Succeeded")
{
Write-Host "Recovery failed" -ForeGroundColor Red
}
else
{
Write-Host "Recovery successful" -ForeGroundColor Green
}
}
}
}
#End Function
#5 Count Servers in $pg array
for ($i=0; $i -le $pgc; $i++)
{
#Selecting server and displaying datasource
$ds = Get-Datasource $pg[$i]
#Call Recover function with $i (server) from #5
Recover $i
}
#6 Once all of recovery is exported 7z these.
cd\ #Ensure its on root
cd $DestinationLocation
$dir = pwd
If ($dir.path -eq $DestinationLocation)
{
#7 "&" is required before calling external file.
#Call 7za.exe to compress the whole folder. 7za command line tool needs to be downloaded and placed in system32 folder b4 hand
Write-host "Starting compressiong phase. At $date ....."
Write-host "Compressing Recovered files from DPM Server. This will take time!" -ForeGroundColor Green
& 7za a -t7z "$Destination7z DPM.7z" *
Write-host "Compression done At $date"
}
Else
{
Write-host "Something went wrong. You have to run 7z manually!" -ForeGroundColor Red
}
#All done exit
Exit
You can download the ps1 version from Google Docs here's the link.
