Return agent based jobs

[frankU32]

Hello

I am trying to write a script that returns the JobID of some managed agent based jobs (windows and Linux) but the commands I use for normal jobs don't seem to show jobs of this type.

Usually, I would use
Get-VBRjob
Get-VBREPJob

but as I said, they don't list managed agent based jobs.

[Dima P.]

Hello Frank.

PowerShell support for managed agents is currently limited to protection group creation, so this behavior is expected, but it's going to be enhanced in next versions.

[frankU32]

Thanks, is there another way to get the JobID for these jobs?

[tdewin]

yes, you can do it in a unsupported way. for example:

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PS C:\Users\Administrator> [Veeam.Backup.Core.CBackupJob]::GetAll() | ? { $_.JobType -match "EpAgent"} | select name,id,jobtype

Name            Id                                         JobType
----            --                                         -------
vbr             0fe95949-6658-4c74-8a4f-2d8ff673151e EpAgentBackup
Agent Backup AD 318697f3-60a9-4c55-a03c-a1324c32c692 EpAgentPolicy
lin             9327122b-1e75-49aa-bccb-b4a0b057c348 EpAgentBackup
Linux           7b066a8e-5da9-4b1d-ab7c-d26fb899df9a EpAgentBackup

[Talom]

Hi,
i want to query all backup results from my Veeam server.
As far as i know it is not possible to get the results for backups from Veeam Agent for Server with powershell.
Does anyone know how to query the results directly from the database?

[veremin]

Above you can find some creative workarounds how to get information regarding agent management jobs. Thanks.

[Talom]

Just a small CodeSnippet, how you can get all the necessary Objects to gather all informations about EPBackups.
Idk why but the GetBy functions don't return the complete objects so you have to reload them with Get

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  foreach($job in [Veeam.Backup.Core.CBackupJob]::GetAll() | ? { $_.JobType -match "EpAgent"}){
   	try {
            
            if($job){
            
               $sessions += [veeam.backup.core.cbackupsession]::GetByJob($job.id)  | Where-Object { ($_.JobType -match 'EpAgent') -and  $_.EndTime -ge $date}
               
            }
        }catch [System.Exception] {
        	write-Host $job.Name
        }
   }

        foreach($session in $sessions){
          $session = [veeam.backup.core.cbackupsession]::Get($session.Id, $job)
            

           $allSessionIds =  $session.AuxData | Select-String -Pattern 'Sessions=\".*\"'
         $allSessionIds=  $allSessionIds -replace '.*Sessions=\"', ''
         $allSessionIds=  $allSessionIds -replace '\" /><PolicyTask.*', ''
         $ids = $allSessionIds.ToString().Split(';',[System.StringSplitOptions]::RemoveEmptyEntries)

         
           foreach($sessionId in $ids){          
                      if($sessionId -ne 'System.Object[]' ){
                    $TaskSessions =  [Veeam.Backup.Core.CBackupTaskSession]::GetByJobSession($sessionId) 
                        
                    foreach($TaskSession in $TaskSessions){
                   $TaskSession =  [Veeam.Backup.Core.CBackupTaskSession]::Get($TaskSession.Id, $session)  
                     $TaskInfo = $TaskSession.Info      
                     $WorkDetails = $TaskInfo.WorkDetails
                    }


                }
             }
         }
        

[veremin]

Just so you know - all agent-specific commands will be available in Veeam PowerShell snap-in, starting from Update 4. Thanks.

[Florian_Kromer]

@v.Eremin

Is Veeam PowerShell snap-in Update 4 already available?
Can I get the information which PS snap-in Update version in a PS script?

[veremin]

It gets installed by default with product update. Thanks!

[Talom]

FYI the snippet still works with Update 4.
I won't use the new agent commands because i have to support multiple Veeam versions.