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Veeam Backup PowerShell Script

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Hello all.

I am new to the group and also the world of PowerShell. After exploring the powershell commands for Veeam, I would like to set up a script that backs up the VM's then shuts down the guests, and eventually the host.

First off, what's the best approach for this? I would imagine the PowerShell commands should work for the backup process. The rest may need to be another type of script.

Any direction or starting points would be much appreciated.

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Re: Veeam Backup PowerShell Script

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Hi Geoffrey, based on your description this task has very littly to deal with Veeam PowerShell snap-in, instead you should be using VMware PowerCLI for most of these task, as they are VMware related. The only Veeam command you will need in your script is single cmdlet starting the backup job containing the required VMs. You can find some examples for this cmdlet on these forums (search for Start VBRJob). Thanks.
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Re: Veeam Backup PowerShell Script

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OK....thanks for the help. I was able to create the job within the Veeam GUI and am now trying to invoke it via powershell using the start-vbrjob command. I am running into an error when trying to call the job by name from the command line.
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Re: Veeam Backup PowerShell Script

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I was able to get the backup job to kick off and finish successfully, then shut down. My question is, does a Verify option exist to display the status of the backup as sucessful?

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Re: Veeam Backup PowerShell Script

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You can use this script to monitor current job status. You can also use job HTML reports available in UI and by e-mail. Thanks.
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Re: Veeam Backup PowerShell Script

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Works beautifully. Anything which requires a network connection is not an option because the environment is classified.

Thanks for the replies.
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Re: Veeam Backup PowerShell Script

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I do have one follow up wish for this script which I think is pretty simple. I have added a status check to write back to the host.

My next step is to add an If statement of some kind to send a message for each outcome for example; Failed: "Your backup was not successful. Please contact IT for remediation."

Is this possible?

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Re: Veeam Backup PowerShell Script

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Got this working as well with a simple If statement and write back to host, followed by "Press any key to continue..."

The only remaining action I would like, is to shutdown the VMHost from the script. Not having much luck with that as of yet.
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Re: Veeam Backup PowerShell Script

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Hi Geoffrey,

Here are two examples of how to use the PowerCli script to shutdown VM guest, please have a look:
http://www.virtu-al.net/2010/01/06/powe ... structure/
http://www.vmware.com/support/developer ... Guest.html

Out of curiosity...why do you need to shutdown VM guest after the backup?

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Re: Veeam Backup PowerShell Script

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Thanks! Got it working.

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