Recurse a tags based backup job to get a list of VMs in Job

[k00laid]

I'm trying to write a script that lists all the VMs to be backed up with in a job so I can restart services in a pre-backup script. Our backups are 100% tag driven at this point so when I do

Get-VBRJob -Name $jobname | Get-VBRJobObject | select name

All I get at this point is the name of my VMware tag and some old data that is not used any more. Is there a way to recurse that tag to get a listing of the VMs?

[Rick.Vanover]

Kudos Jim for being 100% tag-driven.

Curious if the tag result could be thru vSphere PowerCLI vs. the Veeam one cmdlet? (I'm no scripter, but I'm thinking which system "owns" the object - the tag)

[veremin]

Use Find-VBRViEntity along with -Tags parameter; should be something you're after. More information can be found here. Thanks!

[k00laid]

@Rick The easiest version of this that I've been able to do is just that, query vSphere for it instead of Veeam. It actually looks like the Find-VBRViEntity -Tags option is trying to do just that, direct asking my VCSA for information based on the tag. What this doesn't do is give you a full listing of the VMs actively processed by the job, you have to know the tag name first.