Jason,

The Backup-Ucs cmdlet is designed to substitute some variables like ${ucs} and DateTime format specifiers in the PathPattern with the corresponding values. If you use a double-quote, the variables will be interpreted by PowerShell. If you want to use a variable, you can do the following:


PS C:\> del C:\work\Backups\*.xml
PS C:\> $myBackupPath="C:\work\Backups"
PS C:\> Backup-Ucs -Type config-all -PathPattern ($myBackupPath + '\${ucs}-${yyyy}${MM}${dd}-config-all.xml')


AdminState : disabled
Descr :
Hostname : bjayakri-wxp201203281849
Job : immediate
Name :
PostAction : remove
PreservePooledValues : no
Proto : http
Pwd :
RemoteFile : C:\work\Backups\bgl-samc03-20120328-config-all.xml
Type : config-all
User :
Dn : sys/backup-bjayakri-wxp201203281849
Rn : backup-bjayakri-wxp201203281849
Status :
Ucs : bgl-samc03



PS C:\> dir C:\work\Backups


Directory: C:\work\Backups


Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
-a--- 3/28/2012 6:49 PM 25665 bgl-samc03-20120328-config-all.xml


PS C:\>


PowerTool 0.9.7.0 was released yesterday and has a lot of interesting & useful additions. Give it a try.


Thanks,
- bhaskar