Assistance with Add-VBRViBackupJob

[davguan]

Hi,

I'm trying to create simple job with the following in Veeam 7. For Entity, I would like to point the job to a folder and not a VM. Not exactly sure how to go about entering that. I tried searching, but found massive scripts. I'm just trying to setup something simple.

Add-VBRViBackupJob -Name "Test" -BackupRepository "Test Repo" -Entity


Dave

[Vitaliy S.]

Hello Dave,

I believe you should be using something like this:

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Add-VBRViBackupJob -Name $JobName -BackupRepository $JobRepository -Entity (Find-VBRViEntity -VMsAndTemplates -Name $FolderName)

Thank you!

[davguan]

Thanks.

Here is another dilemma I'm facing regarding the folder itself. Each job points to A or B subfolder. The A or B subfolders are not unique in name like "folder1". Under VBRViEntity, can I specify a "path"?

Folder1
A
B
Folder2
A
B

[davguan]

I think I found the solution to my own question. Hope this helps someone in the future.

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Add-VBRViBackupJob -Name "$Job" -BackupRepository "$Repo" -Entity (Find-VBRViEntity -Server $Server -VMsAndTemplates -Name "$A" | Where-Object {$_.Path -eq "server\Folder1\A"})

[veremin]

Yes, you're completely right here. Even though, folders might have the same name, there should be another parameter, using which you can distinguish one folder from the other. It might be path or some other criteria. Typically, you can use Get-Member commandlet in order to see what parameters the given objects have and, then, see which one can be used for distinguishing purpose.

Thanks.