Get Warning, Failed and Error messages

[christopher-swe]

Hello,

Iv'e been searching far and wide on how to extract the error messages with PowerShell from veeam when your job fails.

I found this from a post from 2011, with a bit of code, but it doesn't seem to work now.

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$Info = [Veeam.Backup.Core.CBackupTaskSession]::GetByJobSession($session.id)
$Info[0].Reason

Is there someone who can point me in the right direction or is this impossible to get?
I'm using Veeam Backup & Replication 9.0

Best Regards Christopher

[veremin]

There might be different places where an error is reported (task session, job session, etc.). So, can you provide a screenshot to illustrate the idea better? Thanks.

[Vitaliy S.]

Do you possibly look for something like we display in the predefined report of Veeam ONE > Latest Backup Job Status?

[christopher-swe]

Sorry for the late feed-back, some stuff got in my way.

I partially found what I was looking for, and the solution was to check in Windows Event viewer in order to get the full warning messages.

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$BackupJobs = Get-VBRJob
foreach ($Job in $BackupJobs) {
    Get-WinEvent -FilterHashtable @{Logname='Veeam Backup';ID=190} |Select-Object Message | Select-String -Pattern $Job.Name | select -First 1
}

I hope this will help some one i the future

[andreac]

Thanks Cristopher, it helped me a lot! I was using the same syntax as the first message of this topic to get to the jobs error/warning message, but it's not 100% precise with the failed job descriptions, and it can't retrieve 90% of the warning job descriptions. I'm querying Veeam 8, 9, and 9.5.

Since querying the eventlog can be painfully slow, I'd still like to know if Veeam cmdlets can retrieve this information.

[Vitaliy S.]

Hi Andrea,

Can you please tell us a bit more about your use case? Do you parse these messages and then send them to another portal or monitoring application?

Thanks!

[veremin]

Since querying the eventlog can be painfully slow, I'd still like to know if Veeam cmdlets can retrieve this information.

Can you elaborate on what particular information you're after?

For instance, if you want to capture error messages job failed with, you can use something similar:

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Asnp VEeamPSSnapin
$Sessions = Get-VBRBackupSession -Name "Job Name" | where {$_.Result -eq "Failed"}
foreach ($Session in $Sessions){
$Session[0].Logger.GetLog().updatedrecords | ?{$_.status -eq "EFailed"} | select title
}

Thanks.