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Find vms in backups, that are no longer included in job

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Hi

As the subjects says. When you remove a vm from a backup job. The vms backup data is still in backups. I want to find all thoose vm backups that are "orphaned" like that. Combining data from cmdlets like get-vbrjob, get-vbrjobobjects and Get-VBRBackup would be possible. But maybe there is a smarter way, like a method for this..?

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Re: Find vms in backups, that are no longer included in job

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Hello,
I don't have an answer to your question, but in case you want to delete "The vms backup data is still in backups"... there is a checkbox for that to automatically remove orphaned VMs from backup after a specific time.

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Re: Find vms in backups, that are no longer included in job

Post by veremin »

Two recommendations:

1) Set deleted VM retention period
2) Check backup job session (either in UI or in PS) for special string: "VMName is no longer processed" (or similar). The string indicates "orphaned" VMs.

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Re: Find vms in backups, that are no longer included in job

Post by Vek17 » 1 person likes this post

By far the easiest way here is just grabbing the backup (Get-VBRBackup) and then grabbing the restore points in that backup (Get-VBRRestorePoints). This will return all the OIB data you need to view this and tell you how old this data is. Both ObjectID and VmName are present in this data to identify objects.

If you want to compare that against what objects are in the active job you are going to need to do something like this to get the active VMs:

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$ActiveVMsMap           = @{}
if(!$ActiveVMsMap.Contains($Job.ID)){
    $ActiveVMsMap.Add($Job.ID, @())
}
$ActiveVMsMap[$Job.Id] += $Job.getObjectsInJob() | Where-Object {$_.Type -ne "Exclude" -and $_.Type -ne "VSSChild"} | Select-Object -ExpandProperty name
foreach ($Id in $Job.LinkedJobIds.Guid){
    $ActiveVMsMap[$Job.Id] += ([Veeam.Backup.Core.CBackupJob]::GetAll()| Where-Object {$_.id -eq $Id}).getObjectsInJob() | Where-Object {$_.Type -ne "Exclude" -and $_.Type -ne "VSSChild"} | Select-Object -ExpandProperty name
}
forEach($object in $Job.getObjectsInJob() | Where-Object {$_.GetObject().Type -eq "Host"} | Select-Object -ExpandProperty name){
    $ActiveVMsMap[$Job.ID] += Get-VBRServer -Name $object | Find-VBRViEntity | Where-Object type -eq VM | Select-Object -ExpandProperty name | Where-Object {($Job.GetObjectsInJob() | Where-Object type -eq exclude).name -notcontains $_ }
    $ActiveVMsMap[$Job.ID] += Get-VBRServer -Name $object | Find-VBRHvEntity | Where-Object type -eq VM | Select-Object -ExpandProperty name | Where-Object {($Job.GetObjectsInJob() | Where-Object type -eq exclude).name -notcontains $_ }
}
if($Job.JobType -eq "EndpointBackup"){
    $ActiveVMsMap[$Job.ID] += $job.FindLastBackup().GetLastPoint().GetOibs().VmName
}
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Re: Find vms in backups, that are no longer included in job

Post by masonit »

Hi

Deleted vm retention period is active.

@Vek17, Thanks, will take a look!

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