Powershell script failes for the vcenter server

[sorin.andruseac]

Hi all,

I'm using Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 free and the standard powershell script.
However in the list of the VMs I also have the vcenter server. It backups ok all the VMs with the exception of the vcenter server. It fails with the error:

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Start-VBRZip : Veeam Backup Free Edition does not support of multiple VMs backup. Specify a single VM, or install a paid product license.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Thanks,

[veremin]

With free edition you cannot backup multiple VMs within one VeeamZIP task. You have to backup them one by one. Thanks.

[sorin.andruseac]

well ... the script backups all vms one by one successfully. However in the list of the VMs is also the vcenter server. Only for this VM the backup fails wih the error above.

[veremin]

Chances are, the script assumes it's a container of VMs and therefore fails. Thanks.

[sorin.andruseac]

The script has a list a VMs:

$VMNames = "VM1","VM2","VcenterServer","VM3"
foreach ($VMName in $VMNames)
{
Start-VBRZip -Entity $VM
}

I removed irrelevant parts of the script.
It backups ok all the VMs, only for the Vcenter server fails with the error above.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[sorin.andruseac]

On the second thought you are right indeed.

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Find-VBRViEntity -Name $VMName -Server $Server 

returns two "entities" one of type VM and one of type VC. As a quick fix I added a filter and rewrite the above line like this:

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Find-VBRViEntity -Name $VMName -Server $Server |?{$_.type -eq 'vm'}

Thanks for your help, this can be closed

[veremin]

That's exactly what I suspected. Glad you've found a way to solve the issue.

Should other help be needed, don't hesitate to let us know.

Thanks.