cannot get GFS retetnion with Get-VBRRetentionPolicy

[yannik]

I want a script to check Retention Policy especially GFS retention of backup copy job.

My code:

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$job = Get-VBRJob -Name "Job Name"
$job.JobType
Get-VBRRetentionPolicy -Job $job

On our Veeam Server I get a desired result (Version: 12.0.0.1420 P20230718):

SimpleBackupCopyPolicy

RestorePoints : 14
GFSWeeklyBackups : 4
GFSMonthlyBackups : 0
GFSQuarterlyBackups : 0
GFSYearlyBackups : 0
Type : GFS

On a customer Veeam Server I don't get the GFS retention, even I see in the GUI it is configured. why? (Version: 12.1.0.2131):

SimpleBackupCopyPolicy

RestorePoints Type
------------- ----
7 Simple

[david.domask]

Hi @yannik.

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=120

This is for Backup Copy jobs from External Repositories -- I'm afraid that it worked before is a surprise for me

Use Get-VBRBackupCopyJob for v12 and on, it has a property GFSOptions:

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$job = Get-VBRBackupCopyJob -Name '12.1-backup-copy'
$job | Select @{n="WeeklyEnabled?";e={$_.GFSOptions.WeeklyGFSEnabled}},@{n="WeeklyRetention?";e={$_.GFSOptions.Weeklyoptions.RetentionPeriod}},@{n="MonthlyEnabled?";e={$_.GFSOptions.MonthlyGFSEnabled}},@{n="MonthlyRetention?";e={$_.GFSOptions.Monthlyoptions.RetentionPeriod}},@{n="YearlyEnabled?";e={$_.GFSOptions.YearlyGFSEnabled}},@{n="YearlyRetention?";e={$_.GFSOptions.Yearlyoptions.RetentionPeriod}}


WeeklyEnabled?    : True
WeeklyRetention?  : 7
MonthlyEnabled?   : False
MonthlyRetention? : 5
YearlyEnabled?    : False
YearlyRetention?  : 6

That Select-Object code block is of course overloaded, but more an example on how you can retrieve this. I would recommend instead make a function that just accepts a VBRBackupCopyJob object from Get-VBRBackupCopyJob and just parses out the data you want to see.