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Get-WBDisk
Updated: June 3, 2013
Applies To: Windows Server 2012
Get-WBDisk
Syntax
Get-WBDisk [ <CommonParameters>]
Detailed Description
The Get-WBDisk cmdlet gets a list of internal and external disks that are online for the local computer. You can add these disks to a WBPolicy object that contains a backup policy by using the New-WBBackupTarget cmdlet to specify online disks as backup storage locations.
To use Windows Server® 2012 Backup cmdlets, you must be a member of the Administrators group or Backup Operators group.
Parameters
<CommonParameters>
This cmdlet supports the common parameters: -Verbose, -Debug, -ErrorAction, -ErrorVariable, -OutBuffer, and -OutVariable. For more information, see about_CommonParameters.
Inputs
The input type is the type of the objects that you can pipe to the cmdlet.
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None
None
Outputs
The output type is the type of the objects that the cmdlet emits.
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WBDisk[]
The Get-WBDisk cmdlet lists an array of WBDisk objects for the hard disks that the cmdlet detects on the local computer.
Examples
Example 1: Get a list of disks for the local computer
This command gets a list of the disks that are on the system. You can then use the WBDisk object in the variable named $disks to specify a WBBackupTarget object, and use the WBBackupTarget object to specify where to store backups for a WBPolicy object that contains a backup policy.
PS C:\> $disks = Get-WBDiskA list of WBDisk objects.
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