Powershell progress information when still calculating

[anton]

Hi all,

We are running some NAS backups on large file shares (>10TB) with over >50M of files.
When we start the job this job will not show progress, but shows "calculating" (which makes sense).

For reporting purposes we gather progress on all jobs twice a day using the following Powershell commandlets:
$job = Get-VBRJob -name "File backup xxxx"
$job.FindLastSession().progress.percents

When the job is still in calculating state; this will return 99%

Is there any way to detected (using Powershell) that the job is still calculating?
Only workaround I found is looping of the progress object and checking if the TotalSize object is still incrementing.

[oleg.feoktistov]

Hi Anton,

I'm afraid, there isn't. While job is in calculating stage, powershell returns session status as "In Progress", which makes it quite complex
to explicitly know that calculations are still being done. And there isn't any "Calculating" status declared on the PS backend, which would make it easier.

Thanks,
Oleg