How to check if a restore point is in capacity tier?

[lrhazi]

Is there way to figure this out, after something like this:

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$rp = (Get-VBRBackup -Name $backup_name| Get-VBRRestorePoint -Name $VM_NAME| Sort-Object –Property CreationTime | Select-Object -First 1)

Thanks,
Mohamed.

[chris.arceneaux]

Hi Mohamed,

Please see below for sample code:

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$rps = Get-VBRBackup -Name "<backup-name>" | Get-VBRRestorePoint -Name "<vm-name>" | Sort-Object -Property CreationTime
foreach ($rp in $rps){
  $backupFile = $rp.GetRestoreStorages() | Select-Object -First 1
  $rp | Select-Object VmName,CreationTime,Type,@{Name='Local';Expression={$backupFile.IsContentInternal}},@{Name='CapacityTier';Expression={$backupFile.IsContentExternal}},@{Name='ArchiveTier';Expression={$backupFile.IsContentFrozen}}
}

Sample output:

[lrhazi]

Thanks a lot!!!

[barrett27]

Hello,
I have my backup jobs that save data using a SOBR and I would list the restore points that are on the performance tier but have not yet copied to the capaciy tier (S3 compatible object storage).

I used Get-VBRRestorePoint, but I can't find a property could say something like "isOnCapacityTier:false"

Maybe using other commands?

Thank you

db

[HannesK]

Hello,
forum search brought up the answer above... does that help?

Best regards,
Hannes

[barrett27]

Hello Hannes,
thank you for your reply
I tried with a restore point that is surely both on capacity and performance tier, but isContentExternal says "False"


IsContentInternal : True
IsContentExternal : False

db

[barrett27]

I just realized that some restore point that are on a different object storage (IBM), have isContentExternal that says "True"

The one where I have isContentExternal that says "False" is a compatible s3 object storage

So the value of that property depends on the Object Storage vendor?

db

[oleg.feoktistov]

Hi,

No, that's not the case. IsContentInternal is True together with IsContentExternal is False in two cases: if a storage indeed resides locally and if a storage has been offloaded to capacity tier in scope of SOBR copy policy. In the second case storages copied to capacity won't be reflected because internally they are already referenced by original storages that stayed locally. What you can do with it is check whether local storages have shadow copies. In case with copied backups they will reflect exactly what you want - storages copied to capacity tier. For example:

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$rps = Get-VBRBackup -Name 'Backup' | Get-VBRRestorePoint| Sort-Object -Property CreationTime

$storages = @()
foreach ($rp in $rps){
  $storage = $rp.GetStorage()
  $storages += $storage | select @{n='VMName';e={$rp.VmName}}, @{n='CreationTime';e={$storage.CreationTime}}, `
  @{n='Type';e={$rp.Type}}, @{n='Local';e={$storage.IsContentInternal}}, `
  @{n='CapacityTier';e={$storage.IsContentExternal}}, @{n='ArchiveTier';e={$storage.IsContentFrozen}}, @{n='IsCopied';e={$false}}
  if ($storage.IsContentExternal -eq $false) {
  
  try {
  $shadowStorage = [Veeam.Backup.Core.CStorage]::GetShadowStorageByOriginalStorageId($storage.Id, $false)
  $storages += $shadowStorage | select @{n='VMName';e={$rp.VmName}}, @{n='CreationTime';e={$shadowStorage.CreationTime}}, `
  @{n='Type';e={$rp.Type}}, @{n='Local';e={$shadowStorage.IsContentInternal}}, `
  @{n='CapacityTier';e={$shadowStorage.IsContentExternal}}, @{n='ArchiveTier';e={$shadowStorage.IsContentFrozen}}, `
  @{n='IsCopied';e={$true}}

  }
  catch [System.Management.Automation.MethodInvocationException] {
    continue
  }
  }
}
$storages | ft

In the sample script above I composed and used IsCopied dynamic property as an indicator for offload type.

Hope it helps,
Oleg

[barrett27]

Hello Oleg,

What you can do with it is check whether local storages have shadow copies

Do you mean shadow copies on the local disks of the performance tier where backup files resides? Or shadow copies on the guest OS?

I tried your script and it works with some VM backups, not with others
Thank you very much for the help

db

[oleg.feoktistov]

Hi,

I mean shadow copies of the backup files that reside on performance tier.
Can you, please, let me know in which cases the script didn't work?

Thanks,
Oleg

[barrett27]

Hi,
after a long time I needed again to do this check, and I tried again your script and it works... so I was wrong, my mistake.

Your script creates two objects for every single restore point (one for the local and another one for the capacity), so I changed it a little bit to have the informations in a single object:

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$restorepointall = Get-VBRBackup | Get-VBRRestorePoint| Sort-Object -Property CreationTime
$storages = @()
foreach ($restorepoint in $restorepointall){
    $storage = $restorepoint.GetStorage()
    $VMName = $restorepoint.VMName
    $Type = $restorepoint.Type
    $CreationTime = $storage.CreationTime
    $IsLocal = $storage.IsContentInternal
    $CapacityTier = $storage.IsContentExternal
    $ArchiveTier = $storage.IsContentFrozen
    $IsCopied = $false
    if ($storage.IsContentExternal -eq $false) {
        try {
            $shadowStorage = [Veeam.Backup.Core.CStorage]::GetShadowStorageByOriginalStorageId($storage.Id, $false)
            $CreationTime = $shadowStorage.CreationTime
            $IsLocal = $shadowStorage.IsContentInternal
            $CapacityTier = $shadowStorage.IsContentExternal
            $ArchiveTier = $shadowStorage.IsContentFrozen
            $IsCopied = $true
        }
          catch [System.Management.Automation.MethodInvocationException] {
            continue
          }
          finally {
            #$storageobj = [PSCustomObject]@{
            [PSCustomObject]@{
                VMName = $VMName
                Type = $Type
                CreationTime = $CreationTime
                IsLocal = $IsLocal
                CapacityTier = $CapacityTier
                ArchiveTier = $ArchiveTier
                IsCopied = $IsCopied
            }
            $storages += $storageobj
        }
        }
    }    

Now I don't understand why if I move backups from the performance to the capacity tier, the script still says that they are local. Maybe I need to query other objects or storage properties?

db

[oleg.feoktistov]

Hi,

Do you see the backups you moved to capacity tier if you just query storages with IsContentExternal set to true?

Thanks,
Oleg