PowerShell script for adding specific catalouge protection to a Protection Group

This blogpost is with regards to Mukul Singh Shekhawat and Balaji Hariharan

Lately I got a question from a friend of mine working for the PFE organization at Microsoft. The question was how to create a PowerShell script that will add an explicit catalogue present on a volume to a protection group.

Here is the script:

 

$dpmname = "DPMServername.somedomain.com"

$psname = "PSservername.somedomain.com"

$dsname = "G:\"

$poname = "G:\ProtectableFolder"

$pgname = "MyCLIPG"

 

function CreatePG

{

                param($dpmname, $psname, $dsname, $poname, $pgname)

 

                write-host "Creating a D->D PG --> $pgname..."

 

                trap{"Error in execution... ";break}

                &{           

                                Write-Host "Getting PS: $psname from DPM: $dpmname"

                                $ps = Get-ProductionServer -DPMServerName $dpmname | where { ($_.machinename,$_.name) -contains $psname }

                               

                                Write-Host "Running Inquiry on PS: $psname for datasource $dsname"

                                $ds = Get-Datasource -ProductionServer $ps -Inquire | where { ($_.logicalpath,$_.name) -contains $dsname }

                              

                                Write-Host "Getting Child-datasource $poname from datasource $dsname"

                                $po = Get-ChildDatasource -ChildDatasource $ds -Inquire | where { ($_.logicalpath,$_.name) -contains $poname }

 

                                write-host "Create New PG ..."

                                $pg = New-ProtectionGroup -DPMServerName $dpmname -Name $pgname

 

                                write-host "Adding child datasource..."

                                Add-childDatasource -ProtectionGroup $pg -ChildDatasource $po

 

                                write-host "Setting Protection Type..."

                                Set-ProtectionType -ProtectionGroup $pg -ShortTerm disk

 

                                write-host "Setting Policy Objective...retention range - 10Days, synchronizationFrequency 15"

                                Set-PolicyObjective -ProtectionGroup $pg -RetentionRangeInDays 10 -SynchronizationFrequency 15

                                

                                write-host "Setting Policy Schedules ..."

                                $ShadowCopysch = Get-PolicySchedule -ProtectionGroup $pg -ShortTerm| where { $_.JobType -eq "ShadowCopy" }

                                Set-PolicySchedule -ProtectionGroup $pg -Schedule $ShadowCopysch -DaysOfWeek mo -TimesOfDay 02:00

 

                                write-host "Setting Disk Allocation, with optimization (will take a few minutes to complete)"

                                Get-DatasourceDiskAllocation -Datasource $ds -Calculatesize

                                Set-DatasourceDiskAllocation -Datasource $ds -ProtectionGroup $pg

 

                                write-host "Setting Replica Creation Method ..."

                                Set-ReplicaCreationMethod -ProtectionGroup $pg -NOW

 

                                write-host "Commiting PG"

                                Set-protectiongroup $pg

 

                }

}

 

function waitforIRtoComplete

{

 

                param($waittime)

 

                write-host "Wait for IR to complete"           

 

                $val = $waittime/30

 

                while($val -gt 0)

 

                {

 

                                Write-host "Wait for IR to complete... $val"

 

                                start-sleep 30

 

                                $val--

 

                }           

 

}

 

Connect-DPMServer -DPMServerName $dpmname;

 

createPG $dpmname $psname $dsname $poname $pgname;

 

waitforIRtoComplete 120;