One Liner to update all jobs to optimal.

[chrisdearden]

So you've just upgraded your VBR install to v7 - but now all of your jobs are using the old compression level , which is now High. If you want to take advantage of the new compression levels ( slightly less compression but vastly reduced Proxy CPU consumption ) and make that parallel processing really go at its best , you will have to reset the compression level for all of your jobs. Of course if you have compression disabled or set to other options this might not be required , but if you do have a lot of jobs to update , this little one-liner in powershell should make the job a little shorter.

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Get-VBRJob|Set-VBRJobAdvancedStorageOptions -CompressionLevel 5

Don't forget to run a full backup on each job to take advantage of the new settings.

[Andreas Neufert]

Cool, thank you.

[jmcelvoy]

In troubleshooting a problem I've been having, the tech had me change all my jobs to Compression=Dedupe-Friendly and Storage Optimization =WAN. I've since found that all my jobs run substantially faster with Compression=Optimal and Storage Optimization=LAN. Can I script changing this on all my jobs at the same time vs editing each job individually?

[veremin]

Hi, Jason. The following script should answer your requirements:

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asnp VeeamPSSnapin
Get-VBRJob | ?{$_.jobtype -eq "Replica"} | Set-VBRJobAdvancedStorageOptions -CompressionLevel 5 -StorageBlockSize KbBlockSize512 

Hope this helps.
Thanks.

[jmcelvoy]

Thanks for the info. This will get me going in the right direction hopefully.
Is there a way to see the settings for my jobs? I run a get-vbrjob | get-vbrjoboptions and all the output is Veeam.Backup.Model.CDomsomething. I need to see which of my jobs are set to Dedupe-Friendly with WAN target as I had a co-worker modify some of the jobs to see if that helped performance. Now I have no clue which jobs have been modified.

[jmcelvoy]

In playing around with this, if I set -compressionLevel 6, it sets my job to High. If I do 7 or 8, it sets it back to Optimal. Can I somehow view my jobs compressionlevel? Also, on your example, what does -StorageBlockSize kbBlockSize512 do for my jobs?

[veremin]

Is there a way to see the settings for my jobs?

You can output the job options, using the following script:

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asnp VeeamPSSnapin
$Job = Get-VBRJob -name "Replication Job 1"
$Job.GetOptions()

The result still will be something similar to [Veeam.Backup.Model.CDomBackupStorageOptions]. The specific job options can be gotten with the usage of “.”. For instance, in order to see the backup storage options you will have to run this script:

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asnp VeeamPSSnapin
$Job = Get-VBRJob -name "Replication Job 1"
$Job.GetOptions().Backupstorageoptions 

I need to see which of my jobs are set to Dedupe-Friendly with WAN target as I had a co-worker modify some of the jobs to see if that helped performance

Anyway, if you’re willing to list all replication jobs that have “dedupe-friendly” and “WAN target” settings you should use this one-liner:

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Get-VBRJob | where {($_.jobtype -eq "Replica") -and ($_.Backupstorageoptions.StgBlockSize -eq "KbBlockSize256") -and ($_.Backupstorageoptions.CompressionLevel -eq 4)}  

Hope this helps.
Thanks.

[veremin]

Can I somehow view my jobs compression level?

The number equivalents of compression levels are as the following:

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0 – “none”
4 – “dedupe-friendly”
5 – “optimal”
6 – “High”
9 – "Extreme"

Also, on your example, what does -StorageBlockSize kbBlockSize512 do for my jobs?

It sets “LAN Target” as a storage optimization level. Thanks.

[pknaap]

THX , saved some work!