{"id":699,"date":"2010-07-07T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/vmware-backup-with-powercli-and-veeam\/"},"modified":"2010-07-07T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T19:00:00","slug":"vmware-backup-with-powercli-and-veeam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/miscellaneous\/699\/vmware-backup-with-powercli-and-veeam\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware Backup with PowerCLI and Veeam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My primary backup drive for my virtual machine backup toasted on me so I had to recreate all of my backup jobs. I\u2019ve been using Veeam\u2019s backup product for VMware and it couldn\u2019t be easier to use. 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