how to find the job that triggers itself from veeam pre-script

[can]

Hello,

I'm working on a Veeam powershell script and I ran into the following problem:
When I trigger a backupjob, the pre-script should have access to the information of the job that triggered itself, for example backupjobId, description ... and based on this information it should perform operations and redirect them to the post-script. Is there any mechanism in the pre-script to understand which job is the job that triggered itself?

Thank you.

[david.domask]

Hi can,

This code should work:

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$ScriptPID = Get-WMIObject win32_process | Where-Object {$_.ProcessID -eq $PID}
$ParentProc = Get-WMIObject win32_process | Where-Object {$_.ProcessID -eq $ScriptPID.ParentProcessId}
$JobID = $ParentProc.CommandLine.Split()[7].Trim('"')
$Job = Get-VBRJob | Where-Object {$_.id -eq $JobID}

End result with be a CJob object returned by Get-VBRJob and from there you can write code to do whatever you like with the CJob object.

Can you elaborate on your workflow a bit more? There really isn't a way for the pre/post job scripts to pass objects/variables to one another, you'd need to write it to a file and import the file between scripts, but this seems cumbersome. What is your intended workflow?