Command line backup and retry

[bteichner]

One of our backups I'm running from a scheduled task with Veeam.Backup.Manager.exe (for scheduling purposes). The issue that I'm running into though, is if the backup fails it never runs a "retry job" like you can from the VBR console. Is there a way to set the number of retry attempts when initiating a backup job from the command line?

[Vitaliy S.]

This should be possible to do with PowerShell: http://forums.veeam.com/search.php?st=p ... d%5B%5D=26

[bteichner]

So something like this should work in a powershell script:

Code: Select all

Start-VBRJob JobName -RetryBackup 1

I'd like to continue to use the windows scheduled task I have in place, and call the new powershell script instead.

[Sethbartlett]

Correct, this should work fine.

[andrew.proctor]

I found this too with powershell. Here's how I got round it - the job will retry 3 times if it fails, waiting 8 minutes between each retry

Code: Select all

$job = Get-VBRJob -name $jobname
$jobtry = 0
start-VBRJob -job $job
if($job.GetLastResult() -eq "Failed"){
    do{
        Start-Sleep 480
        Start-VBRJob -job $job -RetryBackup
        $jobtry++
    }
    while(($jobtry -lt 3) -and ($job.GetLastResult() -eq "Failed"))
}
}

I use it as part of a slightly longer script that chains my jobs together so they run consecutively and it seems to work well. Hope this helps.