Check Running Jobs

[DanCasan]

Hi all, i'm trying to find a way to check and, if needed, notify if a backup job is running for more than x hours.
I found several command that output the status of a job, the start, etc etc, but I can't get the output I'm looking for.
Is there someone who has already had this need?

Thank you.

[david.domask]

Hi @DanCasan,

There isn't a cmdlet that directly reports on the long running job, but it should be easy enough to write a script that has a quick check based on the Get-Date comparison to the CreationTime property returned by Get-VBRJob and Get-VBRBackupSession.

A simple way with unsupported method would be:

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$jobs = Get-VBRJob
$currDate = Get-Date
Foreach($j in $jobs){
    $lastSess = $j.FindLastSession()
    if(($currDate - $lastSess.Creationtime).Hours -gt $N){
          Some action like maybe send an email
     }
}

This is very loose code but the general idea should work for you. Basically just let Powershell do date-math for you

[DanCasan]

Hi david, thank you for the tip.
I started from your code and i modified it, now I have a PS1 that check running jobs for more than 10 hours (applicable to Backup, Replica, Backup copy):

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$jobs = Get-VBRJob
Foreach($j in $jobs){
	$lastSess = $j.FindLastSession()
	if(($lastSess.State -eq "Working") -and ($lastSess.Creationtime -lt (Get-Date).AddHours(-10))){
	$lastSess.JobName + " is " + $lastSess.State >> C:\Veeam_Script\check_running.txt
    }
}

[david.domask]

Hi @DanCasan, glad you could figure it out with the hints, and thank you for sharing your resulting code ) it always helps everyone when we share knowledge