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BE_KirkFreiheit · 06-02-2014

Today's release of Backup Exec 2014 nearly doubles the size of BEMCLI from 222 to 395 cmdlets, with 72 of the original cmdlets enhanced with new parameters and functionality. Here's a quick list of what's new: - Native PowerShell v2 and v3+ support...

BE_KirkFreiheit · 06-18-2012

The following blog entry was originally posted as a reply to a comment here on SymConnect. The techniques demonstrated here are useful in virtually any PowerShell session, so I've reposted it here for the BEMCLI community: With PowerShell, develop...

BE_KirkFreiheit · 06-15-2012

Backup Exec 2012 ships with a new PowerShell module called BEMCLI. I lead the development of BEMCLI, and am very excited about its role in making your Backup Exec tasks more automated and easier to manage. 30,000 foot view of PowerShell and BEMCLI i...

BE_KirkFreiheit · 05-13-2014

No, there isn't a property for the last expected start time. However, as pkh suggested, you may be able to get what you're looking for by examining the most recent job history related to the job you're trying to learn that info from: $history = Get...

BE_KirkFreiheit · 05-08-2014

Hi lufist, BEJob has a "NextStartDate" property -- it's a DateTime object, not a string -- so no parsing necessary. We added formatting to many object types in BEMCLI so they look better in the console by default -- but this also hides many useful ...

BE_KirkFreiheit · 05-08-2014

Hi Frankklin, The "Media" property of the BERoboticLibrarySlot is actually a full BEMedia object -- not just its label. So, for this scenario, you'll want to use "Select-Object" to pick off the BEMedia objects from the slots: Get-BERoboticLibraryS...

BE_KirkFreiheit · 10-28-2013

Thanks for the feedback. We try to balance the "PowerShelliness" of the cmdlet interfaces with usabiliy, and sometimes things go a bit overboard. Parameter sets are a great tool that PowerShell itself gives to both users and developers, but sometime...

BE_KirkFreiheit · 10-28-2013

Hi brholmes and pkh, Great question -- hope the following helps: Background DuplicateStageTasks have both a source (backup or duplicate stage) and schedule (time-based or immediately after). For backup sources, you also have the choice of "All", "Mos...

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No, there isn't a property

Hi lufist, BEJob has a

Hi Frankklin, The "Media"

Thanks for the feedback. We

Hi brholmes and pkh, Great