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 <h2 class="wp-block-heading">The Story</h2><p>I have DPM server deployed and I got couple of Exchange Servers and with about 2 TB of data.</p><div> 
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</figure><p>I scheduled DPM to backup Exchange four days a week, then I used the deduplication command to make a use of non used space. however that didn&rsquo;t give me enough space.</p><p>As an alternative I planned to delete the recovery points each start of every month. </p><p>The script provided by Microsoft&rsquo;s article about DPM <strong>here</strong> doesn&rsquo;t really provide anyhow on how to delete a protection group with multiple recovery points.</p><p>After spending lots of digging I tried to create my own script.</p><h2 class="wp-block-heading">Caution:</h2><p>Please use this script with caution as it delete every Protection Group&rsquo;s Recovery Points. </p><p>If you need custom script to delete recovery points for a specific date please don&rsquo;t hesitate to send me an email. </p><div> 
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 </div><h2 class="wp-block-heading">Script:</h2><pre class="EnlighterJSRAW" data-enlighter-language="generic" data-enlighter-theme="" data-enlighter-highlight="" data-enlighter-linenumbers="" data-enlighter-lineoffset="" data-enlighter-title="" data-enlighter-group="">$pgList = Get-ProtectionGroup $env:COMPUTERNAME

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 ForEach($ds in $dsList) {

 $RP = Get-DPMRecoveryPoint -Datasource $ds; $RP
 foreach ($P in $RP){
 Remove-DPMRecoveryPoint -RecoveryPoint $p -Confirm:$false -forcedeletion
 } }

}</pre><p>If you think this script has a mistake or can be improved please leave a comment or drop me an email.</p><h2 class="wp-block-heading">References:</h2><figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-link is-provider-chuck-039-s-blog wp-block-embed-chuck-039-s-blog"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
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