move vms with exclusions script

[Kazz]

Hi,

I have a backup Job A with 12 VMs in it, I also have a Job B with 37 vms in it and some VMs (around 10) in job b have disk exclusions configured.
Is there a way to move vms from Job B to Job A with a power shell script and retain all exclusions as they are?

The final goal is to consolidate A and B in to just one Job A

Thank you

[oleg.feoktistov]

Hi,

Yes, you would need to add VMs as new job objects to a target job and then update each of them with the exclusion data from the source job. An example for vSphere backup jobs:

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$targetJob = Get-VBRJob -Name 'Backup Job 1'
$sourceJob = Get-VBRJob -Name 'Backup Job 2'
$objects = Get-VBRJobObject -Job $sourceJob
foreach ($object in $objects) {
  $entity = Find-VBRViEntity -Name $object.Name -Server vsphere.local | where {$_.Reference -eq $object.Object.ObjectRef}
  Add-VBRViJobObject -Job $targetJob -Entities $entity
  $targetJob = Get-VBRJob -Name 'Backup Job 1'
  $targetObject = Get-VBRJobObject -Job $targetJob -Name $object.Name | where {$_.Object.ObjectRef -eq $object.Object.ObjectRef}
  $targetObject.Update($object.VssOptions, $object.DiskFilterInfo, $object.UpdateConfig, $object.Type)
}

This script will loop through each of objects of a source job you want to move the vms from, add and then update each of them in the target job separately. I'm using a conjunction of object name and vm reference on the vSphere infrastructure to filter each vm to avoid dealing with duplicated names.

Let me know if it helps,
Oleg

[Kazz]

Thanks Oleg!

I was able to scrip the move of the VMs but without the exclusions. This is super helpful, thanks again!