Using powershell to set VSS creds

[pizzim13]

I am using the following code to set the vss options for a Veeam job, but it throws an error when it comes to set the credentials:

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$VSSJobOptions = $JobObj.GetVssOptions()
$VSSJobOptions.Enabled = $true
$VSSJobOptions.IgnoreErrors = $false
$VSSJobOptions.GuestFSIndexingType = "EveryFolders"
$VSSJobOptions.Credentials = [Veeam.Backup.Common.CCredentials]::CreateEmpty()
$VSSJobOptions.Credentials.UserName = "domain\admin"
$VSSJobOptions.Credentials.Password = "xxxxx"
$JobObj.SetVssOptions($VSSJobOptions)

Error:

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Cannot find an overload for "CreateEmpty" and the argument count: "0".
At line:29 char:77
+ $VSSJobOptions.Credentials = [Veeam.Backup.Common.CCredentials]::CreateEmpty <<<< ()
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : MethodCountCouldNotFindBest
 
Property 'UserName' cannot be found on this object; make sure it exists and is settable.
At line:30 char:28
+ $VSSJobOptions.Credentials. <<<< UserName = "domain\admin"
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (UserName:String) [], RuntimeException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PropertyNotFound
 
Property 'Password' cannot be found on this object; make sure it exists and is settable.
At line:31 char:28
+ $VSSJobOptions.Credentials. <<<< Password = "xxxxx"
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (Password:String) [], RuntimeException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PropertyNotFound

For the code I am following the example from http://www.veeam.com/forums/viewtopic.p ... 459#p14046

Any suggestions?

[Sethbartlett]

Could you please send more of the code before $VSSJobOptions = $JobObj.GetVssOptions() so we can see the whole script?

[pizzim13]

Just trying to learn the Veeam cmdlet basics to build out something much more complex.

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#variables for job creatation
$vbrserver = Get-VBRServer | Where {$_.Type -eq "Local"}
$CreateJobName = "Test"
$BackupDir = "c:\backup"
$VMs = "vm-test"

#Create Job
Add-VBRBackupJob -Name $CreateJobName -Type VDDK -Server $vbrserver -Folder $BackupDir -Objects $VMs

$JobObj = Get-VBRJob | where {$_.name -eq $CreateJobName}

#Set job options
$JobOptions = $JobObj.GetOptions()
$JobOptions.VDDKMode = "san"
$JobOptions.EmailNotification = $true
$JobOptions.Templates = $true
$JobOptions.TransformIncrementsToSyntethic = $true
$JobObj.SetOptions($JobOptions)

#VSS options for windows jobs
$VSSJobOptions = $JobObj.GetVssOptions()
$VSSJobOptions.Enabled = $true
$VSSJobOptions.IgnoreErrors = $false
$VSSJobOptions.GuestFSIndexingType = "EveryFolders"
$VSSJobOptions.Credentials = "Veeam.Backup.Common.CCredentials"
$VSSJobOptions.Credentials.UserName = "domain\admin"
$VSSJobOptions.Credentials.Password = "xxxxx"
$JobObj.SetVssOptions($VSSJobOptions)

All of the code works sans:

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$VSSJobOptions.Credentials = "Veeam.Backup.Common.CCredentials"
$VSSJobOptions.Credentials.UserName = "domain\admin"
$VSSJobOptions.Credentials.Password = "xxxxx"

[Sethbartlett]

You will want to set credentials manually currently as there seems to be an issue with the way the passwords are stored for the credentials. You also would need to do "$VSSJobOptions.Credentials = [Veeam.Backup.Common.CCredentials]::CreateEmpty($true)

The issue is that when you do $VssJobOptions.Credentials.Password = "xxxx", the password will be saved in plain text and not hashed properly, you will want to set the password in the GUI currently.

[pizzim13]

It is a bug in the cmdlet? Do you think it will be fixed via the next update to Veeam?

[roniva]

[merged]

We have a backup job that will backup all VM's in a given folder. The folder ends up containing a mix of Windows and Linux VM's. I currently go into the GUI and manually add the VM to the guest processing settings list and then manually set it to disable application processing and indexing. I looked through the options available in Get-VBRJobVssOptions and they just seem to be the options on the main VSS page and for the default object in the guest processing settings but not for any of the manually added items.

Has anyone found a way to add a VM to the guest processing settings list and set its options using the Veeam Powershell cmdlets? My ultimate goal in all of this would be to add some code to the bottom of my linux VM deployment script that would add itself to the vss list and set the options so I wouldn't have to worry about setting in manually.

-Ron

[Sethbartlett]

As a response back to this thread to answer the initial question, I have found a solution.

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$Credentials = New-Object -TypeName Veeam.Backup.Common.CCredentials -ArgumentList "User","Password",0,0

From here, you can then do:

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$VSSJobOptions.Credentials = $Credentials

This will also allow you to easily set the same VSS Credentials across all your jobs or change them if need be.