get-vbrbackupsession question

[jevao]

After upgrading to Veeam 8 trying to use “get-vbrbackupsession” to find instance that ran less than 24 hours ago.

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$job = Get-VBRJob | ?{$_.Name -eq “Linux-80”}
$session = get-vbrbackupsession -name $job.name
$session

Searching through the objects, I do not find a record for last night on 8/12/2015.

But I do find a record for last night if I run the following command and look through the objects:

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$session = get-vbrbackupsession
$session

BottleneckManager         : CJobBottleneckManager
Info                      : Veeam.Backup.Model.CBackupSessionInfo
OrigJobName               : Linux-80
EndTime                   : 8/12/2015 2:55:26 AM
CreationTime              : 8/12/2015 1:10:21 AM

Any ideas why “get-vbrbackupsession” would have the instance and “get-vbrbackupsession -name $job.name” would not have it?

Thanks for your help.

[veremin]

I think it's happened because session might have a different name than a corresponding job. For instance, session name contains additional information regarding job cycle, such as "Job Name (Full)", "Job Name (Retry 1)", etc.

Can you try to get session name and see whether my assumption is correct?

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$Session.name

Thanks.

[jevao]

Ah, yes, you are right. The name of the vbrbackupsession is now different than the name of the job.

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PS C:\>   $session1 = get-vbrbackupsession

PS C:\> $session1.name | sls 80
Linux-80 (Reverse Incremental)
Linux-80
Linux-80 (Reverse Incremental)
Linux-80
Linux-80 (Retry 1)
Linux-80
Linux-80

PS C:\> $session1.jobname | sls 80
Linux-80
Linux-80
Linux-80
Linux-80
Linux-80
Linux-80
Linux-80

PS C:\> $session1 | ? { $_.name.Startswith("Linux-80")}    # Will include the object:
Name                      : Linux-80 (Reverse Incremental)
JobName                   : Linux-80
CreationTime              : 8/12/2015 1:10:21 AM

This works:

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PS C:\> ######  Wrong ######  $session = get-vbrbackupsession -name $job.name |  ?{$_.CreationTime -ge (Get-Date).addhours(-24)}
PS C:\> $session1 = get-vbrbackupsession
PS C:\> $session2 =  $session1 | where { $_.jobname -eq $job.name }
PS C:\> $session =  $session2 | where { $_.creationtime -ge (Get-Date).addhours(-24)}
PS C:\> $session
Name                      : Linux-80 (Reverse Incremental)
JobName                   : Linux-80
CreationTime              : 8/13/2015 1:10:23 AM

Thanks much!

[veremin]

You can also get the latest job session in a different way. Get a job you want, and, then, use FindLastSession() method.

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(Get-VBRJob -Name "Name of your Job").FindLastSession()

Thanks.