.getObjectsInJob or .GetVIOijs do not return all VMs

[avandeven]

Hey Veeam and Powershell Gurus!

I have a backup job that has a VMware cluster selected. When trying to access all of the VMs from that cluster with Powershell, I'm missing one or two of the VMs:

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$jobs = Get-VBRJob -WarningAction silentlyContinue | ? { $_.jobtype -eq 'Backup' }
$objects = $jobs.GetViOijs()
$objects.name

The results show me the majority of the VMs in the job (there are some duplicates as well), but then is clearly missing some when comparing it directly to the VM list when the job ran last night. I have also tried using .getObjectsInJob as well with similar results.

Is there something that I'm missing here?

Thank you,
Adam

[veremin]

Haven't heard about that. The given method (similar to Get-VBRJobObject cmdlet) should return all backup job source objects. Thanks.

[tdewin]

Did you add for example containers to the job (eg datastore, resource pool, cluster, tags, etc..)? The containers will only resolve the VM's at the moment of backup so that if a new VM is created inside this container, it will be "automatically" add to the job.

The "downside" is that you can not lookup the VM's add the job via powershell this way because it will only return the containers.

[avandeven]

Thanks tdewin,

I do have a container added to the job (I've added the VMware cluster), I still assumed that Veeam would be able to tell me which child VMs were part of that container as a result of the previous backup job. I'm seeing about almost of the VMs that were backed up the previous night, with just one or two that are mysteriously missing.

Is this worth a support case, or is this expected behavior?

Thank you!
Adam

[tdewin]

Just quickly tested. It is important to start from the result (eg the backup) instead of the job itself, since you are using containers

This is a more supported approach but it will get all the vms in all the restore points. So you need to filter out the duplicates. However it should show all VM's even if they were not in the latest point

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$backup = Get-VBRBackup -Name  "Backup Job 1"
$restorepoints = $backup | Get-VBRRestorePoint
$restorepoints | select VmName | Sort-Object | Get-Unique

This might be more performant, but as stated not supported as you are calling direct .net code. It will only show VM's in the last restore points. Maybe you have some VM's that have been deleted but still have restore points?

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$backup = Get-VBRBackup -Name  "Backup Job 1"
$backup.GetLastPoint().GetOibs() | select VmName