Query Job Completion

[crichardson]

Is there any way to query if a backup job has completed from the command line? I think I can use PowerShell? Maybe I'm blind (high possibility), but I can't seem to locate the white papers for this...

Basically I would like to build a script which runs near the end of the backup window. It will query all Veeam Backup jobs one by one and output if they are completed or not. If they are not, the script will sleep for 15 minutes. If the jobs are complete the script will execute another command.

This will be used to kick off our HP Data Protector software to backup our repositories to tape. I have the white paper which was introduced a few years ago but unfortunately it does not fit my needs.

[Gostev]

Sure, please check the PowerShell subforum.

[foggy]

Corey, you can use this script to monitor current job status. Thanks.

[Sethbartlett]

In powershell you can do the following:

v6

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$job = Get-VBRJob -name "Jobname"
$job.GetLastState()

v5

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$job = Get-VBRJob | ?{$_.name -eq "Job Name"}
$job.GetLastState()

[crichardson]

You guys rock. I was looking for white papers and then I must have mistypes something in the forum search box, because I just tried again and found dozens of posts. Thanks!!!

[crichardson]

This script appears to query all jobs and continue runing until all jobs are stopped - am I correct? The big issue with this is it seems to take replica's into account as well. Is there a way to only query backup jobs? I tried -BackupTargetType but that didn't do the trick.

Just so you know, I'm extremely new to PowerShell. I'm making the transition from VBScript (yeah yeah, I know... I'm behind the times...)

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Add-PSSnapin Veeampssnapin
$JobActive=0
Do {
foreach ($v in (Get-VBRJob))
{
   $JobStatus = ($v.GetLastState())
   If ($JobStatus -notlike "Stopped"){$JobActive ++}
}}
while($JobActive -notlike "0")
#Insert backup command here

[ThomasMc]

Change your Get-VBRJob to this

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Get-VBRJob | ?{$_.IsBackup -eq $true}

[crichardson]

I added some Write-Host entries to help with troubleshooting. I ran the script below while a backup job was running. While the job is running the script outputs "Working 0" then "Working 1" and then "Working 2" and so on. I then stopped the backup job to see if the script would output "Run Script!". The job was stopped for 15 minutes and the script never stopped or outputted "Run Script!". Did I screw something up?

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Add-PSSnapin -Name Veeampssnapin -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

$JobActive=0
Do {
foreach ($v in (Get-VBRJob | ?{$_.IsBackup -eq $true}))
{
   $JobStatus = ($v.GetLastState())
   If ($JobStatus -notlike "Stopped"){
        Write-Host $JobStatus $JobActive
        $JobActive ++
   }
}}
while($JobActive -notlike "0")
#Insert backup command here
Write-Host "Run Script!"

[Sethbartlett]

You never decrement JobActive. So when it gets set to stopped, you do not --

[jteager]

So wait, are you trying to do like a "post-all-my-jobs" command? If so, you could probably just do something like

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asnp VeeamPSSnapin -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

while(get-vbrjob | ?{$_.IsBackup  -and $_.GetLastState() -notlike "Stopped"}){
   sleep(10) # That value is in seconds -- this is so it doesn't tank your box :)
}

write-host "This is only printing if no jobs are running"

Does that make sense?

[ThomasMc]

Nicely done JT

[crichardson]

Nice! Thanks! I'm so far behind when it comes to PoweShell

So basically what I'm going to do is kick off the script at midnight every night. It will cotninue to run and check every X amount of seconds to see if a job is running (I'll probably change this to every 10 minutes or something). When the jobs are all stopped, it will kick off a command to run an on-demand HP Data Protector job which will send our entire backup repository to tape.

[davidl]

Have you considered using a post job activity on the backup which runs last in your backup set ?

We do this for any of our customers who are looking to use a backup to tape solution for their Veeam Data and have found it to be very reliable and compatible with pretty much any backup system which has some level of PowerShell Interaction support.

Provided you can write a PowerShell script or similar to initiate the backup on your tape backup system you can simply define a script to run when the final Veeam job completes.

By using a script to first output whether jobs are running and then having another script check the output is a less than optimal method to do what your trying to achieve imho

In Veeam v6 you can define the Post Job Script to only run on a specific day so if your only doing this on a weekend for example you don't need to add a check into the script to find out what day it is before executing you can just define the schedule within the Veeam Job.

Obviously everyones situation is different and it may be hard to define which backup will complete last in a given backup window for some but for many standard re-occurring schedules I have found the post job activity feature to be a very reliable method to get Veeam data written to tape.