Altaro VM Backup

Recently, I decided to try to determine if there was a way to manage Altaro VM Backup with PowerShell. I figured there must be some database, files, or something that I could at least query with PowerShell. What I found is Altaro has a RESTful API and they have numerous PowerShell scripts for working with it. In Altaro version 7, there are 33 PowerShell scripts located in the “C:\Program Files\Altaro\Altaro Backup\Cmdlets” folder if you took the defaults during the installation, otherwise they’re wherever you installed Altaro....

I’ve recently been working with Altaro VM Backup and I must say that I’ve been very impressed with the ease and simplicity of the product. The back-end portion of the product can run on a virtual or physical server with or without the GUI (Server Core is supported). It can backup to just about any type of drive (local disk, UNC path, USB drive, etc). It doesn’t require SQL Server. In my environment, adding a Hyper-V server (running Windows Server 2012 R2) installed a service on the Hypervisor, but did not require a reboot....