Reporting progress of Start-VBRZip

[Quackzilla]

Hi All,

I'm trying to report back live progress of a VBRZip to a database. The VBRZip object has the BaseProgress attribute which has the value. I need to run using -RunAsync so I can perform the DB inserts while the backup progresses however this seems to stop BaseProgress from updating. It just stays at 0.

Am i missing something here? Is there another way to query for job progress? How would you go about doing a similar operation?

Many thanks for your help!

[veremin]

I think you can assign result of cmdlet execution to a variable:

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$ZIPSession = Start-VBRZip...

And, then, check its progress, using Info.Progress parameter or something similar:

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$ZIPSession.Info.Progress

Unfortunately, I cannot VPN to my lab at the moment, so, cannot double check this.

Thanks!

[oleg.feoktistov]

Hi @Quackzilla and Welcome to the Forums,

Unlike in the UI, in Powershell progress is not displayed dynamically until API is called multiple times and progress bar is configured in a script. You would need a loop for that. The simplest way could be:

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$entity = Find-VBRViEntity -Name 'VmName' -VMsAndTemplates
$repo = Get-VBRBackupRepository -Name 'SOBR-01'
$zip = Start-VBRZip -BackupRepository $repo -Entity $entity -RunAsync

$x = 0
while ($x -ne 100) {
    $session = Get-VBRBackupSession | where {$_.Id -eq $zip.Id -and $_.State -eq 'Working'}
    Clear-Host
    Write-Host -NoNewline "$($session.BaseProgress)% complete"
    $x = $session.BaseProgress
    Start-Sleep -Seconds 10
} 

This script retrieves Zip session progress dynamically every 10 seconds in one line until it reaches 100% or session stops.

Thanks,
Oleg