{"id":1861,"date":"2014-03-07T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/03\/07\/powertip-protect-the-data-produced-by-powershell-jobs\/"},"modified":"2014-03-07T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-protect-the-data-produced-by-powershell-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-protect-the-data-produced-by-powershell-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Protect the Data Produced by PowerShell Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Learn how to protect the data in a Windows PowerShell job.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I protect the data that is produced by a Windows PowerShell job?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;If the job is running and your Windows PowerShell session or computer crashes, you&rsquo;ll lose the data. <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; One possibility is that you can write the data to disk before the job finishes so that its available if the <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; session or machine stops. This would be a good approach for overnight jobs where the machine <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; is unattended and might be restarted by an outside process.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn how to protect the data in a Windows PowerShell job. &nbsp;How can I protect the data that is produced by a Windows PowerShell job? &nbsp;If the job is running and your Windows PowerShell session or computer crashes, you&rsquo;ll lose the data. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; One possibility is that you can write [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[193,189,4,45],"class_list":["post-1861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-background-jobs","tag-richard-siddaway","tag-scripting-techniques","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn how to protect the data in a Windows PowerShell job. &nbsp;How can I protect the data that is produced by a Windows PowerShell job? &nbsp;If the job is running and your Windows PowerShell session or computer crashes, you&rsquo;ll lose the data. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; One possibility is that you can write [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}