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StartPIArchiveShift Class

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StartPIArchiveShift Class

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Last UpdatedDec 15, 2025
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Initiate a PI Archive shift

The Start-PIArchiveShift cmdlet initiates a PI Archive shift immediately on a specified PI Data Archive.

The connection parameter specifies which connection to a PI Data Archive to use.

Inheritance Hierarchy

SystemObject
  InternalCommand
    Cmdlet
      PSCmdlet
        OSIsoft.PowerShellOSICmdletBase
          OSIsoft.PowerShellStartPIArchiveShift

Namespace: OSIsoft.PowerShell
Assembly: OSIsoft.PowerShell (in OSIsoft.PowerShell.dll) Version: 2.2.3.0 (2.2.3.952)

Syntax

[CmdletAttribute("Start", "PIArchiveShift", SupportsShouldProcess = true)]
public class StartPIArchiveShift : OSICmdletBase

<CmdletAttribute("Start", "PIArchiveShift", SupportsShouldProcess := true)>
Public Class StartPIArchiveShift
	Inherits OSICmdletBase

Dim instance As StartPIArchiveShift

[CmdletAttribute(L"Start", L"PIArchiveShift", SupportsShouldProcess = true)]
public ref class StartPIArchiveShift : public OSICmdletBase

[<CmdletAttribute("Start", "PIArchiveShift", SupportsShouldProcess = true)>]
type StartPIArchiveShift =  
    class
        inherit OSICmdletBase
    end

The StartPIArchiveShift type exposes the following members.

Constructors

	Name	Description
	StartPIArchiveShift

Properties

	Name	Description
	Connection	Connection to a PI Data Archive for which to initiate an archive shift

Examples

Start-PIArchiveShift -Connection (Connect-PIDataArchive -PIDataArchiveMachineName "PISRV1")

Initiates a PI Archive shift on the "PISRV1" PI Data Archive server.

Examples

Start-PIArchiveShift -Connection $con

Where:

$con = Connect-PIDataArchive -PIDataArchiveMachineName "PISRV1"

Initiates a PI Archive Shift on the PI Data Archive "PISRV1", where the connection object to PISRV1 is stored in the variable $con.

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