How to See if a VM has a Job

[GGearon]

I'm running Veeam BaR 9.5 to backup my VMware servers. I have a lot of different jobs running now, for many of the VMs. Some as individuals some as groups.

I occasionally get someone coming to me, asking if their server is being backed up. Is there a way to easily search based on the VM name, if there is a job already associated to it? Right now, I go through each group job, and look at the list of VMs being backed up. That is very time consuming and getting more so as I add more servers to Veeam.

[foggy]

The Protected VMs report in Veeam ONE allows to quickly check that. Thanks!

[driley]

One thing I like to do is post the job results to the VM's notes attribute: Edit the VM backup job -> Storage -> Advanced Settinfgs -> Notifications. Then you can check via the Vsphere console in the Notes section of any VM to see what job and the last date of a good backup.
Another way using the Veeam console -> go to disk ->type in the VM name in the search field.
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[veremin]

Also, if you don't have Veeam ONE installed, you might find this PS report useful. Thanks!

[GGearon]

Great info. Driley, that is exactly the kind of fast, easy, thing I was looking for.
The report in Veeam One is pretty cool, I will have to play around with that. I might find some useful for management.

Thank you all.

[Magion]

I periodically check if all vm's are included in a backup job. Currently it's an manual exercise exporting a VM list from vSphere to Excel and then check all jobs in VB&R, match them with the exported list and see which VM's are not yet included.

I would like to see an extra column in the Inventory view, which lists the jobs each VM is configured in. This way I can easily see which vm's are not yet included in any job.

[Dima P.]

Hello and welcome to the community Magion.

Thank you for your feature request. It makes total sense, so consider you improvement request noted. Cheers!

[Escapo IT]

+1

[driley]

Do you have Veeam One? If so, go to Business View -> Virual Machines -> Last backup Date -> VMs with no backup
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[Magion]

@Dima P: Thanks!
@driley: I have a license, but no instance running.

[valentin.ciobanu]

+1

[foggy]

There's also a dedicated report in Veeam ONE for that, please see above.