PowerShell/PowerCLI script to back up multiple VM's from vCenter one at a time

[emcclure]

Hello,

I'm new to the forum and new to running Veeam backup in PowerShell. I've written some PowerShell/PowerCLI scripts before to do some tasks, but never having to backup a VM to a location using Veeam. What I'd basically like to do is connect to a vCenter, get a list of VM's, perhaps from a specified VM folder, select the VM's to backup and then watch them backup one at a time. I feel something like this to get started would work:

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Get-Datacenter | select Name | Format-Table
$mydatacenter = Read-Host "Select a datacenter"
Get-Datacenter -Name $datacenter | Get-Folder -Type VM | sort Name | Format-Table
$myfolder = Read-Host "Choose a folder"
$vms = Get-Datacenter -Name $datacenter | Get-Folder -Name $myfolder -Type VM | Get-VM | sort Name | Out-GridView -OutputMode Multiple 
foreach ($vm in $vms)
{

Then at this point I'd like to incorporate Veeam to backup the VM's one at a time. But I don't know what to use here. We have Veeam Backup 9.5 and I'm running PowerShell 5.1 and PowerCLI 10.1 if that helps at all.

I was given a script (not sure where it came from) to look at and see if I could make it work this way, but I just don't know enough about it. I'm not sure how to put the code on here so it looks all pretty and is easier to read, so if someone can point that out for me that'd be great.

Thanks.

[Talom]

Do you want to create a Backup Job for every single VM or do you want to start one Backup Job with all VMs in it?
For all VMs in one Backup Job you have to create and configure the Job and just add the Folder to it. Then start it and it will backup each VM in the Folder one at a time

[veremin]

Also, let us know whether you're using free or paid VB&R edition; because script will vary, based on the answer. Thanks!