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PedroVDP
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Getting postprocessing details from backup sessions

Post by PedroVDP »

I've made some scripts to do some custom reporting using powershell on our jobs with relative success but there's a few jobs that need some extra hand-holding.

Essentially some massive VMs have 300-500 GB of new stored data every day which sometimes can lead to extreme merge operations on forever incremental jobs.

In order to create some reports I'm de-constructing each part of the job's total duration but while it's easy to get the details on an individual VM in a job by listing the task sessions, I'm having trouble finding out where I can get the duration of the post-processing using powershell.

If anyone has a better suggestion, I'd welcome the help.

What I have so far is something along the lines of the below which gets me all details of each individual VM but not the post-processing of the job. Somehow it seems a bit crude to have to sum up all task sessions and subtract it from the total job durations but that's the best I could come up with so far.

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foreach ($backup in $vbrsessions) {
		$Sessions = $backup.GetTaskSessions()
		foreach ($VM in $Sessions) {
		# Get Array Data
		$JobName = $backup.OrigJobName
		$Name = $VM.Name
		$Status = $VM.status
		$Size = [Math]::Round([Decimal]$VM.Progress.ProcessedSize/1GB,2)
		$Used = [Math]::Round([Decimal]$VM.Progress.ProcessedUsedSize/1GB,2)
		$Read = [Math]::Round([Decimal]$VM.Progress.Readsize/1GB,2)
		$Stored = [Math]::Round([Decimal]$VM.Progress.StoredSize/1GB,2)
		$Start = $VM.progress.starttime 
		$Finish = $VM.progress.stoptime
		$Duration = '{0:00}:{1:00}:{2:00}' -f ($VM.progress.duration | % {$_.Hours, $_.Minutes, $_.Seconds})
        $retry = ($backup.name).split("(")[2] -replace "\)"
		$Message = $VM.GetDetails()

}
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Re: Getting postprocessing details from backup sessions

Post by tsightler »

I'm assuming by post-processing you mean things like synthetic fulls and merges. Unfortunately I don't know if there's any great way to get those details from specific properties, but you can do a little creative log parsing for the job, so something like:

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$backup.Logger.GetLog().UpdatedRecords | ?{$_.Title -like "*backup file merge*"}
This should return the log entry for the merge or synthetic operation which includes both a status and a start and end time property. To make it work reliably you'll probably need to tweak the exact phrase match, but I've used this approach to reasonable success in the past.
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Re: Getting postprocessing details from backup sessions

Post by PedroVDP »

For merges that would be "Full backup file merge completed successfully" actually.

Thanks, this should do the trick in getting the data out.
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