Append String to Veeam Tapes in Media Pool via Powershell

Today I needed to add a couple of tapes in a Media Pool and the customer asked me if I could append a string to the tape name. Having added around ~30 tapes in the pool it would have required a lot of clicking to do it from the Veeam Backup Console.For this reason I decided to allocate the same time to script it.

As a result I compiled the below script. It will function as follows:

It will get the list of tapes in the media pool named “Daily – LTO 7”, as per the $MediaPoolName constant, and will append ” – Daily”, as specified in $appendname, to the current tape name.

The $MediaPoolName and $appendname constants should be changed for your specific use.

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#Import VBR PS Snapin
Add-PSSnapin VeeamPSSnapin
#Media Pool Name
$MedialPoolName="Daily - LTO 7"
#String to Append to the name
$appendname=" - Daily"
#Get list of tapes in the Media Pool Specified above
$tapes=Get-VBRTapeMedium -MediaPool $MedialPoolName
#Renaming of the tapes takes place here
foreach ($tape in $tapes){
$newtapename =$tape.Name+$appendname
Write-Host $tape.name renamed to $newtapename
Set-VBRTapeMedium -Medium $tape -name $newtapename
}

You can see that it is very straight forward. I try to explain as much as I can for people that are new to powershell.

As always leave a comment below should you have found it useful or would like to make suggestions.

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