Script not running if I run as post-job, works from command -line

[pflynn782]

Hello all - wondering if you might have any ideas.

I have fileserver1 that has a bunch of files on it (dumps of db`s from previous night - separate process non-veeam)

Then, I backup this fileserver, and if the job is successful, I would like to delete those files. It works fine from command line, whether I start as powershell as admin or not. But when i run this from the post job option within the backup job, I get nothing, I have tried adding a separate script with a sleep 900 to see if it was because the backup job was still running but to no avail.

here`s what I am doing - any ideas are appreciated :

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$job = Get-VBRJob -Name "MYJobName"

$backupjob=Get-VBRBackupSession | Where {$_.jobId -eq $job.Id.Guid} | Sort EndTimeUTC -Descending | Select -First 1
if ( $backupjob.Result -eq "Success" )
{

$secureFileonprem = "C:\VeeamFLR\my-creds.txt"
$passwordonprem = Get-Content $secureFileonprem | ConvertTo-SecureString
$usernameonprem = "MyServer\Mylocalaccount"
$cred = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential ($usernameonprem, $passwordonprem )

$s = New-PSSession -ComputerName myfileserver.domain.com -Credential $cred
Invoke-Command -Session $s -Scriptblock {Remove-Item -Path D:\MyPath\dir\* -Recurse}

Remove-PSSession $s

 }

Thanks

[Mildur]

Hi Paul

Can you use a text file output to check what the job result is? This helps to check if somehow the result is not success in your case.

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$job = Get-VBRJob -Name "MYJobName"
$backupjob = Get-VBRBackupSession | Where {$_.jobId -eq $job.Id.Guid} | Sort EndTimeUTC -Descending | Select -First 1
if ( $backupjob.Result -eq "Success" )
       {
          New-Item C:\temp\test.txt
          Set-Content C:\temp\test.txt 'Job successfull'
       }
else 
       {
          New-Item C:\temp\test.txt
          Set-Content C:\temp\test.txt 'Job not successfull'
       }

[jorgedlcruz]

Hello,
You can find the very same situation here, with a few tips on how to solve it.

Give it a try and let us know. Thanks

[david.domask]

One thing to note is that if you encrypt the file, you need to make sure the Veeam Service account is able to access it also; this will be a small hiccup since we cannot change the user context of the script execution at this time.

I actually think it's better to run this as a background process outside of Veeam instead of as a post-job script and just monitor for when the job runs and use the same cmdlets to check the status of the job, but it's just personal preference. You could install the console onto the file server for simplicity and then just never use it except for the scripting and just do the same checks and deletion live on the server, and save the PSRemoting session.

[pflynn782]

Hello all - Thanks for the suggestions - I had to setup local system to be able to read the secure string and it works. Much appreciated.

[david.domask]

Glad you got it working! Thank you for sharing what worked also.