In the previous recipe, you created a basic backup policy that runs a full backup of the C:
volume every day at 6:00. This recipe examines the results of the backup and helps you understand the details of the resulting backup.
Before carrying out this recipe, you need to have had a backup job completed. In the recipe Configure and set backup policy, you created a backup job that would run every morning. Thus, you can wait until the day after you set up this daily backup, or you can run a once-off job as shown at the end of that recipe.
The steps for the recipe are as follows:
- Retrieve and view the current WSB backup policy:
Get-WBPolicy
- View an overview of what is on the target disk:
Get-ChildItem -Path Q: -Recurse -Depth 3 -Directory
- View the details of a backup:
$Backup = (Get-ChildItem -Path Q:\WindowsImageBackup\Psrv `
-Directory |
Select-Object -First 1).FullName
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