Check backup status of vm in job - if failed - restart vm

[StefanB]

Hello, maybe someone can help me with the correct code to run any command (e.g. restart whole vm) if the last backup of specific vm failed in the scheduled backup job.

Already found the code to check the last Status with findlastsession/gettasksessions:

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asnp VeeamPSSnapin
$VMName = "Name_of_VM"
$Job = Get-VBRJob -Name "Name_of_Backup_Job"
$Session = $Job.FindLastSession()
$Tasks = $Session.GetTaskSessions()
$Tasks | ?{$_.Name -eq $VMName} | %{write-host $_.Name ":" $_.Status}

Output is e.g.
Name_of_VM : Failed

Need something like this, but for a specific vm if status is 'failed' - instead of a whole job.

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$Job = Get-VBRJob -name "Name of your job"
If ($job.GetLastresult() -eq "Warning" -or $job.GetLastresult() -eq "Success")
{
Place your commands here that you want to start
} Else {}

Thanks for any help.
Stefan

[tdewin]

Didn't test it but I believe you can do something like this

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$Tasks | ? {$_.Name -eq $VMName -and $_.Status -eq "Failed"} | %{
write-host $_.Name ":" $_.Status
}

or if you want both failed and warning

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$Tasks | ? {$_.Name -eq $VMName -and $_.Status -in @("Failed","Warning")} | %{
write-host $_.Name ":" $_.Status
}

Of course it depends. If you want to do something in both case (if/else), you will need a different construct. If however, you want to do something when a VM fails, you can use this "for loop" construction, because, the VM should only occur once in the job itself and thus the command runs 0 (no failed session for vm) or 1 time (failed session for vm)

[StefanB]

Yep, this will work.

Can anyone help me with the code if we really want to work with both case (if/else) and the needed code construct?

[tdewin]

Something like this

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if($($Tasks | ? {$_.Name -eq $VMName -and $_.Status -eq "Failed"}) -ne $null) {
 write-host "Failed"
} else {
 write-host "All good"
}

I actually test this code quickly to see if chrome is missing so it should work:

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if ($(get-process | ? { $_.Name -match "chrome"}) -ne $null) { write-host "running" } else { write-host "not running" }

[StefanB]

Great! Thank you. Works perfect.