Removing a DPM recovery point

We had a situation where we needed to delete a recovery point.  Of course there is no way to do it using the GUI and Technet has an awesome (useless) explanation on how to do it using powershell

After a little searching I found this blog entry which works perfectly.  In short here are the steps for removing a recovery point.  As some point I may write an interactive script to simplify everything.  I modified the code from the original blog posting to add the array number in front of the output to make things a little easier.

Get a list of protection groups and display them.

$pgList = get-protectiongroup SERVERNAME

$i=0;foreach($pg in $pgList){write-host (“{0} : {1}” -f $i, $pg.friendlyname);$i++}

Get a list of data sources for the protection group you want (replace the x with the number next to the protection group) and display them.

$dsList = get-datasource $pglist[x]

$i=0;foreach($ds in $dsList){write-host (“{0} : {1}” -f $i, $ds.name);$i++}

Next, get a list of recovery points for the data source (replace the x again).

$rpList = get-recoverypoint $dslist[x]

$i=0;foreach($rp in $rpList){write-host (“{0} : {1}” -f $i, $rp.representedpointintime);$i++}

Now we are at the point where we can actually remove the recovery point.

remove-recoverypoint -recoverypoint $rpList[x] -confirm

Thanks again to the original blog poster.