Exclusion of viEntity

[Tobias_Elfstrom]

I base my backups on the the folder's my VM are in but i would like to do exlusions based on clusters.

This is how I create the base of a backupupb:

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Add-VBRViBackupJob -Name $JobName -BackupRepository $JobRepository -Entity (Find-VBRViEntity -VMsAndTemplates -Name $FolderName)

I end up with a job with objects like this:

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PS V:\Temp\Tobias\vmbackup01\scripts> Get-VBRJobObject -Job $job


Id                  : 509e1414-f848-4f3a-a3c9-40b8a3a70d7b
Object              : Name: AI010
Filter              : 
Name                : AI010
Type                : Include
Location            : vcloudserver\IDC\Production\AI010
ApproxSizeString    : 198,7 GB
Info                : Veeam.Backup.Model.CDbObjectInJobInfo
JobId               : fe76f8f0-84c3-46d0-94bd-9fcfbe43be58
IsFolder            : False
IsIncluded          : True
IsVssChild          : False
IsExcludeDisksChild : False
IsExcluded          : False
IsExtended          : False
PolicyType          : None
VssOptions          : <CVssOptions><Enabled>True</Enabled><IgnoreErrors>False</IgnoreErrors><GuestFSIndexingType>ExceptSpecifiedFolders</GuestFSIndexingType><Transaction
                      LogsTruncation>OnlyOnSuccessJob</TransactionLogsTruncation><IsFirstUsage>True</IsFirstUsage><IncludedIndexingFolders /><ExcludedIndexingFolders><st
                      ring>%windir%</string><string>%ProgramFiles%</string><string>%TEMP%</string></ExcludedIndexingFolders></CVssOptions>
ExtendedOptions     : Veeam.Backup.Model.COijExtendedOptions
DiskFilter          : 2000;2001;2002;2003;2004;2005;2006;2008;2009;2010;2011;2012;2013;2014;2015;2016;2017;2018;2019;2020;2021;2022;2024;2025;2026;2027;2028;2029;2030;20
                      31;2032;2033;2034;2035;2036;2037;2038;2040;2041;2042;2043;2044;2045;2046;2047;2048;2049;2050;2051;2052;2053;2054;2056;2057;2058;2059;2060;2061;2062
                      ;2063
UpdateConfig        : True
Role                : EInclude

I can find the cluster I want to exclude by doining:

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Find-VBRViEntity -HostsAndClusters -Name $ClusterName

Howerver I find no way to exluding this from powershell. I can exclude it in the GUI and end up with a job like this:

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PS V:\Temp\Tobias\vmbackup01\scripts> Get-VBRJobObject -Job $job


Id                  : 509e1414-f848-4f3a-a3c9-40b8a3a70d7b
Object              : Name: AI010
Filter              : 
Name                : AI010
Type                : Include
Location            : vcloudserver\IDC\Production\AI010
ApproxSizeString    : 198,7 GB
Info                : Veeam.Backup.Model.CDbObjectInJobInfo
JobId               : fe76f8f0-84c3-46d0-94bd-9fcfbe43be58
IsFolder            : False
IsIncluded          : True
IsVssChild          : False
IsExcludeDisksChild : False
IsExcluded          : False
IsExtended          : False
PolicyType          : None
VssOptions          : <CVssOptions><Enabled>True</Enabled><IgnoreErrors>False</IgnoreErrors><GuestFSIndexingType>ExceptSpecifiedFolders</GuestFSIndexingType><Transaction
                      LogsTruncation>OnlyOnSuccessJob</TransactionLogsTruncation><IsFirstUsage>True</IsFirstUsage><IncludedIndexingFolders /><ExcludedIndexingFolders><st
                      ring>%windir%</string><string>%ProgramFiles%</string><string>%TEMP%</string></ExcludedIndexingFolders></CVssOptions>
ExtendedOptions     : Veeam.Backup.Model.COijExtendedOptions
DiskFilter          : 2000;2001;2002;2003;2004;2005;2006;2008;2009;2010;2011;2012;2013;2014;2015;2016;2017;2018;2019;2020;2021;2022;2024;2025;2026;2027;2028;2029;2030;20
                      31;2032;2033;2034;2035;2036;2037;2038;2040;2041;2042;2043;2044;2045;2046;2047;2048;2049;2050;2051;2052;2053;2054;2056;2057;2058;2059;2060;2061;2062
                      ;2063
UpdateConfig        : True
Role                : EInclude

Id                  : ca3df141-6cfc-4bd6-9cde-a25742ee9832
Object              : Name: vCluster 1
Filter              : 
Name                : vCluster 1
Type                : Exclude
Location            : vcloudserver\vCluster 1
ApproxSizeString    : 37,5 TB
Info                : Veeam.Backup.Model.CDbObjectInJobInfo
JobId               : fe76f8f0-84c3-46d0-94bd-9fcfbe43be58
IsFolder            : False
IsIncluded          : False
IsVssChild          : False
IsExcludeDisksChild : False
IsExcluded          : True
IsExtended          : False
PolicyType          : None
VssOptions          : <CVssOptions><Enabled>True</Enabled><IgnoreErrors>False</IgnoreErrors><GuestFSIndexingType>ExceptSpecifiedFolders</GuestFSIndexingType><Transaction
                      LogsTruncation>OnlyOnSuccessJob</TransactionLogsTruncation><IsFirstUsage>True</IsFirstUsage><IncludedIndexingFolders /><ExcludedIndexingFolders><st
                      ring>%windir%</string><string>%ProgramFiles%</string><string>%TEMP%</string></ExcludedIndexingFolders></CVssOptions>
ExtendedOptions     : Veeam.Backup.Model.COijExtendedOptions
DiskFilter          : 2000;2001;2002;2003;2004;2005;2006;2008;2009;2010;2011;2012;2013;2014;2015;2016;2017;2018;2019;2020;2021;2022;2024;2025;2026;2027;2028;2029;2030;20
                      31;2032;2033;2034;2035;2036;2037;2038;2040;2041;2042;2043;2044;2045;2046;2047;2048;2049;2050;2051;2052;2053;2054;2056;2057;2058;2059;2060;2061;2062
                      ;2063
UpdateConfig        : True
Role                : EExclude

If I try to use the Remove-VBRJobObects it complains about the wrong datatype:

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Remove-VBRJobObject -job $job -Objects (Find-VBRViEntity -HostsAndClusters -Name $clustername)
[color=#FF0000]Remove-VBRJobObject : Cannot bind parameter 'Objects'. Cannot convert the "Veeam.Backup.Core.Infrastructure.CViClusterItem" value of type "Veeam.Backup.Core.Infrastructu
re.CViClusterItem" to type "Veeam.Backup.Core.CObjectInJob".[/color]

And I cant find any Remove-VBRViObjects..

Anyone have any hints on how to do this?

[ThomasMc]

Look at line 11 over at

http://vpowercli.wordpress.com/2012/01/ ... -in-a-job/

That should get you able to finish your script

[Tobias_Elfstrom]

Look at line 11 over at

http://vpowercli.wordpress.com/2012/01/ ... -in-a-job/

That should get you able to finish your script

Thanks but the problem is that I would rather exclude a vi object, in my case a cluster, rather than a VM.

I could do something like this between every iteration of the job:

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function update-job {
    Param {$JobName, $FolderName, $Cluster}
    $VMNames = get-vm -Location $FolderName | Where-Object {(get-cluster -VM $_.name).name -ne $Cluster}
    Get-VBRJobObject -job $JobName |Remove-VBRJobObject -Job $JobName
    Add-VBRJobObject -Job $JobName -Entity (Find-VBRViEntity -Name $VMNames)
}

But what I would like is to have dynamic jobs without having to run scripts over and over again.

[veremin]

Yep, we’ve discussed the issue of exclusion vm-objects coming from particular cluster with Tobias through PM.

His idea is represented above. And I was along the same line with him, going to propose some script that in cycle would check name of cluster of vm-object and name of specified cluster for coincidence. In case it happened, it would remove this vm-object.

Our intensions to find any other solutions apart from the ones already mentioned came a cropper.

So, any suggestions would be highly-appreciated.

Thanks.

[ThomasMc]

Good luck

[Tobias_Elfstrom]

Good luck

Ha, yeah... thanks

[tsightler]

Hey guys, you might want to look at this thread. While the thread in question is specifically about adding and using folders, the concept could be easily modified to work for clusters. Basically, you would use a small modification of the "unsupported" code on that page to get the ViSoap object, add it to the job, get the "JobObject" and then using the Remove-VBRJobObject cmdlet to exclude it. If I get a few minutes I can try to piece together the changes needed to get clusters instead of folders.

[Tobias_Elfstrom]

Wonderful! Thanks a bunch for pointing me in the right direction, even if it is unsupported.

[tsightler]

Just to put it all together in one place:

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$vCenter = Get-VBRServer -Name "<Your_vCenter_Server>"
$Job = Get-VBRJob -Name "<Job_to_Edit>"
$ExCluster = "<Cluster_to_Exclude_from_Job>"

# Populate the top of the Host and VMs Entity View
$HaV = ((New-Object -typename Veeam.Backup.Core.InfrastructureTree.HostsAndClustersLoader).LoadHierarchy($vCenter.Info)).HostsAndVms()

# Find the Object for the Cluster that is being excluded
$ExClusterObj = Find-VBRViEntity -server $vCenter -HostsandClusters -Name $ExCluster

#Call GetChild method to perform a recursive search on the $HaV view to find the cluster ViSoap Entity required by Add-VBRJobObject
$ExClusterEntity = $HaV.GetChild($ExClusterObj.Reference, "ClusterComputeResource", $true)

#Add Cluster Entity to the job
Add-VBRJobObject -Job $Job -Server $vCenter -Entities $ExClusterEntity

#Get the Cluster Job Object now that it has been added to the job
$ExClusterJobObject = Get-VBRJobObject -Job $Job | Where-Object {$_.Object.ObjectId -eq $ExClusterEntity.Id }

#Exclude the Cluster Object from the job
Remove-VBRJobObject -Job $Job -Objects $ExClusterJobObject

#Delete the Included Cluster Job Object (Only the Excluded Cluster Object will remain)
$ExClusterJobObject.Delete()

The code above is intentionally wordy to demonstrate the concept. Much thanks must go to Seth for first showing how to use the LoadHierarchy function. This is the only function that is "unsupported" and since it's not really doing anything special other than populating the ViSoap view so that we can find the right objects there's no real risk in using it other than the implementation might change in the future.

[arnoutv]

Is there a vCloud solution for this?

I'm having the same kind of trouble:
I can create a job to back-up a full vCloud organization, and use find-VBRVCloudEntity to find a VM to exclude, but the Remove-VBRJobObject won't accept it as a param.
Once get-VBRBackup does return something, I could use the .getObjects() method, but the problem is: For a freshly created Job get-VBRBackup doesn't return anything...

The GUI does allow navigating vCkloud to add exclusions, so there must be an infrastructure tree functionality somewhere in all that DLL's right?

[arnoutv]

Got it!

The Find-VBRvCloudEntity doesn't return objects of the type CEntity, so the regular commandlets won't accept it.
It does return IItem objects, and those can be added and excluded in this manner:

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$VMName = 'someVM'

# need extra checks to see if it's the right org and vApp to ensure it's the right VM
$vm = Find-VBRVcloudEntity -Name $VMName

#prepare the [ref] params
$added = $tplfailed = $faultTolerantFailed = $incompatFailed = $alreadyThere = $null
#add it
[Veeam.Backup.Core.Infrastructure.CJobItemsHelper]::TryAddItemsToJob( $job, $vm, [ref] $added, [ref] $tplfailed, [ref] $faultTolerantFailed, [ref] $incompatFailed, [ref] $alreadyThere )
#check the [ref] vars!

# flipt he added VM to negate
$jo = get-VBRJobObject -Job $job.Name -Name $vm.ViVmName
$jo.Info.Type = 'Exclude'
[Veeam.Backup.Core.CObjectInJob]::Update( $jo.Info )

[Anders]

We have a VMWare tag called "No-Backup" that we want to add as an exclusion on all our backup jobs. I got to see the same issues as the OP had type issues.

Are there any changes regarding this in V8?

If not, how would I script this with Tags instead of a Cluster as the solution example is for?

Thanks,
Anders

[tsightler]

This thread is quite old and most of the limitations no longer apply. It's possible to exclude tags via Powershell using supported cmdlets. An example is available in this thread.