Change a parameter to several jobs at once

[dellock6]

Hi all,
since I'm a total noob in powershell and I can only modify scripts made from others , I need some help on this: I created a script to modify the VM notes attributes like this:

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$job = Get-VBRJob -Name MyJob
$opt = $job.GetOptions()
$opt.ViSourceOptions.VmAttributeName = "Backup"
$opt.ViSourceOptions.SetResultsToVmNotes = $true
$job.SetOptions($opt)

How can I read every job in the Veeam Server, select only backup jobs, and change this parameter to all of them?

Thanks!
Luca.

[Sethbartlett]

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Get-VBRJob | ?{$_.IsBackup} | %{$opt = $_.Options; $opt.ViSourceOptions.VmAttributeName = "Backup"; $opt.ViSourceOptions.SetResultsToVmNotes = $true;$_.SetOptions($opt)}

That is the very "powershelly" way to do it, I could make it prettier, but it works nicely

[dellock6]

I am at level 1 of powershell, that is copy others' scripts and try to modify them so every improved version seems like magic to me

I can supposed reading at the code (?{$_.IsBackup}) this one you wrote parses all backup jobs, right?

Thanks Seth!!!

[Sethbartlett]

Yeah, for example:

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Get-VBRJob | Where-Object {$_.IsBackup}

I short hand everything I can, Jobs have a method called "IsBackup" and it returns true/false. If you just said if($Job.IsBackup) it assumes you mean true.