How to Retrieve ContentLibrary UUID

[mmangold]

What is the recommended method of retrieving the UUID of a local Content Library? The goal is to be able to feed Veeam with the UUID of a newly-created ContentLibrary for backup purposes. PowerCLI's 'Get-ContentLibrary' commandlet appears to be lacking sufficient details for this purpose.

Also, what are folks doing for restoration when a ContentLibrary is accidentally deleted? Since this has now happened twice, the plan is to remove full ContentLibrary Administrator privilege and instead implement a Subscribed CL versus the initially-created Local CL for all vSphere Admins; however, I am interested to hear what other folks are doing in regards to backup and restoration. Thank you.

[s_wieland]

Hello  ,

what information is missing for you using Get-ContentLibrary? The UID and the ID are both available with this commandlet.

For example "Get-ContentLibrary | Select Name, ID, Uid" will display them together with the Name of the ContentLibrary. But you can also get creation or update date, sync Date and Version.

[mmangold]

ah, thank you; simple enough. was only getting a short listing- when investigating further id found a blog entry on mr-lam's page that suggested to author this giant script to retrieve the necessary data and assumed there must be an easier method of retrieval inbuilt to the system. the initial output was only name and type. looks like i just need to brush-up on the ol' ps-foo.