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PowerShell Scripting Problem

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Hello,

in the past we used a Powershell script to backup one single machine into a Group. That worked very good. After we deployed on the veeam 7.0 we have to make changes on the script.

On that point I recognized that there are two different results:

First Result:
When I type "get-vbrjob" on a normal powershell commandbox he gives me a lot of information about the structure of my vbr-jobs. This information are useless to restart a single machine for that.

Second Result:
When I type "get-vbrjob" and start the powershell-console from the veeam application I get a table about my backup jobs.

My question at this point: Is there some kind of module missing in my powershell enviorment which is loading in the veeam powershell application?

The veeam powershell plugins are installed in both ways.

Thank you for your help in advance! :)
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Re: PowerShell Scripting Problem

Post by tsightler » 1 person likes this post

Actually, both commands are returning the exact same objects, but when you start via the Powershell console option from within Veeam it calls an initialize script which loads some additional formatting information to make the output of the command a little more human readable. For the full details (with a few minor mistakes but the jist is correct) you can read this thread.

Or, if you just want to jump to the "how do I manually load this formatting info so that it looks the same" then the following code should work:

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Add-PSSnapin VeeamPSSnapIn
$snapIn = Get-PSSnapIn "VeeamPSSnapIn"
$xmlFilePath = [System.IO.Path]::Combine($snapIn.ApplicationBase, "Veeam.Backup.PowerShell.format.ps1xml")
update-formatdata -prependPath $xmlFilePath
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Re: PowerShell Scripting Problem

Post by Petrie »

tsightler wrote:Or, if you just want to jump to the "how do I manually load this formatting info so that it looks the same" then the following code should work:
Tom, thank you very much! Now we know why the output within the two PS sessions is different.

But unfortunately this does not solve another problem (we thought it was because of the different formatting):

When we do something like this...

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Get-VBRjob -name Test123 | Start-VBRJob
...it works as expected when started in a "Veeam Powershell session".


In a "normal" Powershell session (where the Veeam-Snapin has been invoked by the "Add-PSSnapIn" command) we keep getting this error:

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Start-VBRJob : Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
At line:1 char:40
+ Get-VBRjob -name Test123 | Start-VBRJob
+                                        ~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Start-VBRJob], TargetInvocationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException,Veeam.Backup.PowerShell.Command.StartVBRJob
What are we doing wrong?
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Post by veremin »

Hi, Helge, I'm wondering whether you're running the said script under administrator account. Thanks.
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Re: PowerShell Scripting Problem

Post by Petrie »

Started with elevated rights, everything works fine.
How embarrassing is that rookie mistake, - sorry! :oops:

Of course - and as expected - this does NOT depend on the output formatting of the "Get-VBRJob" command. :wink:

The reason why we did not realize the difference is that the "Veeam PS session" does not ask for elevated rights as VBR already runs with administrative rights (and asks for it when starting the GUI).
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Post by veremin »

No problem. Sometimes, these things might slip out of your attention. :)

Should any other questions arise, feel free to contact us.

Thanks.
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Re: PowerShell Scripting Problem

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Thanks a lot!
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