Quick post on how to extract a red gate sqlbackup file back to native format using powershell. There’s no redgate cmdlets to do this, I’m just using invoke-expression (or use the ampersand for shorthand) to extract the backups. This will create multiple .bak files; one per each thread according to the number of threads that were specified when creating the original backup.
$file = "C:\PathToOriginalSPB_Backup\OriginalBackup.sqb" $extractor = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Red Gate\SQL Backup 7\sqb2mtf.exe" $destination = "C:\WhereYouWantYourExtractedBackupsToGO\NativeBackups.bak" $params = "`"$($file)`"", "`"$($destination)`"" & $extractor $params