exclude disks of Individual VMs

[pirx]

Follow up to my question on how to find VM/disk excluded.

For MSSQL server we exclude disks 3,4,5 (SCSI 0:3-0:5). I want to automate this but all examples I could find seem to require that the VM itself is added to the job, where we either add a cluster or based on tags. I would need to feed the script the VM name and the job name. Or just all jobs in case a VM is moved, which currently screws up excludes as they only cover the cluster the VM is currently running in...

I found https://www.robvit.com/veeam/backup_rep ... owershell/

But this seems to set excludes for every object in a job. I tried to filter on $jobobject but the VM itself is not an object, its the cluster.

[david.domask]

Hi pirx,

There's no supported means of setting disk exclusions via Powershell -- I've not played with the unsupported methods in the blog post you found and I would not rely on these as eventually we want to close out use of unsupported .NET methods / .NET reflection, so eventually your script will break.

Probably, you'll need to write some code with Invoke-WebRequest to call the VBR API which lets you set disk inclusion / exclusions per job. I don't have an example to share at the moment but it should be pretty straight forward.

[pirx]

Bummer. I pushed internally that we should manage our excludes via automation as this is very error prone. How do others handle this, manual way is a nightmare.

[david.domask]

Well, automation is possible, just you will need to dip into REST API a bit You can do it within Powershell with the Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet and the API endpoint I linked.