Creating backup copy job

[tom_nl]

Hi,

I'm trying to create a backup copy job for specific VM's.
This is what I have now:

$Server = Get-VBRServer -Type ESXi
$VM = Find-VBRViEntity -Server $Server -name "*fp5*"
Add-VBRViBackupCopyJob -DirectOperation -Name "bla" -Repository $(Get-VBRBackupRepository -Name "bla") -Entity $VM

This should work if I see the examples. But the script just hangs with no error.
If I use the "-Backup" parameter it works just fine.

What am I doing wrong?

[tom_nl]

Anyone?

[jhoughes]

Is your VM living on a standalone ESXi host, or under a vCenter server?

If you are targeting your vCenter for backing up your virtual environment, then the VM object needs to be located in the same fashion. This means that for the Server parameter of the Find-VBRViEntity cmdlet, you need to be targeting vCenter as the server type, not ESXi.

You can confirm if your commands are returning any valid results by confirming the contents of your 'Server' and 'VM' variables; I suspect that your 'VM' variable doesn't contain anything.

If you are using vCenter, try this instead (note the server type in line 1):

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$Server = Get-VBRServer -Type VC
$VM = Find-VBRViEntity -Server $Server -name "*fp5*"
Add-VBRViBackupCopyJob -DirectOperation -Name "bla" -Repository $(Get-VBRBackupRepository -Name "bla") -Entity $VM

[tom_nl]

Thanks. Eventually the problem was that there was an ESXi in the Veeam configuration which wasn't accessible. This caused the script to "hang".