Start a Veeam job from another machine

[electricd7]

Is there a way for me to install the Powershell tools on another guest and then connect to the Veeam server and fire off a backup job? I would like to be able to start jobs from guests VMs which are not Veeam Backup and Replication servers.

[electricd7]

So I have been trying to go down the path of Invoke-Command within PowerShell and run the start job script on the remote Veeam backup and replication server. I am using the following line:

Invoke-Command -FilePath c:\scripts\test.ps1 -ComputerName Veeam1

The file test.ps1 does exist in the c:\scripts\ path on the local machine (the one running the calling script). If I run test.ps1 from the Veeam server in powershell it runs and the job starts.

When I call it from the remote machine using the invoke-command above I get errors almost like its trying to load the PowerShell snapin in the local machine. Can anyone direct me to a working call to start a job from within the powershell of another guest in the environment?

[tsightler]

There are examples in the Getting Started and Code Examples section. Here's the link to a specific example.

[electricd7]

Thanks..I have seen those and have tried lots of ideas today. My error occurs when I fire the Add-PSSnapin command on the remote session. Here is a copy of the output including the error:

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PS C:\> $s = New-PSSession -Computername Veeam1
PS C:\> Enter-PSSession $s
[Veeam1]: PS C:\Users\ckillion\Documents> Add-PSSnapin VeeamPSSnapIn
Add-PSSnapin : Cannot load Windows PowerShell snap-in VeeamPSSnapIn because of the following error: Could not load file
 or assembly 'file:///C:\Program Files\Veeam\Backup and Replication\Backup\Veeam.Backup.PowerShell.dll' or one of its d
ependencies. This assembly is built by a runtime newer than the currently loaded runtime and cannot be loaded.
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidData: (VeeamPSSnapIn:String) [Add-PSSnapin], PSSnapInException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : AddPSSnapInRead,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.AddPSSnapinCommand

[electricd7]

Just FYI, i just did the .\Install-VeeamToolkit.ps1 ran from remote B&R server on my remote powershell system and it appeared to enable me to be able to now add the snapin locally but obviously it doesn't work. I get the same error when trying to initiate calls against the remote server.

[veremin]

The code provided by you doesn't appear to be correct. Have you tried to use the right syntax referenced by Tom?

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$backupserver = "backup.demolab.an.veeam.de"
$username = "demolab\Administrator"
$password = convertto-securestring -string "Sumsi1!" -asplaintext -force
$credentials = new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist $Username, $Password
$session = New-PSSession $backupserver #-authentication CredSSP -Credential $credentials
invoke-command -session $session -scriptblock {Add-PSSnapin -Name VeeamPSSnapIn -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue; ScriptBlock}
Remove-PSSession $session

Thanks.

[electricd7]

Thanks for the advice, but I get the same error. Here is the script I am running to test now:

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$backupserver = "veeam1.fqdn.org"
$username = "apollo\ckillion"
$password = convertto-securestring -string "p@ssword1" -asplaintext -force
$credentials = new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist $Username, $Password
$session = New-PSSession $backupserver #-authentication CredSSP -Credential $credentials
invoke-command -session $session -scriptblock {Add-PSSnapin -Name VeeamPSSnapIn}  
Remove-PSSession $session

And the output from console:
PS C:\Users\ckillion\desktop> .\test.ps1
Cannot load Windows PowerShell snap-in VeeamPSSnapIn because of the following error: Could not load file or assembly
'file:///C:\Program Files\Veeam\Backup and Replication\Backup\Veeam.Backup.PowerShell.dll' or one of its dependencies.
This assembly is built by a runtime newer than the currently loaded runtime and cannot be loaded.
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (VeeamPSSnapIn:String) [Add-PSSnapin], PSSnapInException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : AddPSSnapInRead,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.AddPSSnapinCommand
+ PSComputerName : veeam1.fqdn.org

[veremin]

If try to run Veeam snapin locally on backup server, will you have the same errors or not? What PS version is installed on backup server? Have you already checked this topic? Thanks.

[electricd7]

Yes, snapin works great on local Veeam server. Local veeam server is running PowerShell version 2, remote machine was running version 2 until I read the link you just posted yesterday. I then upgraded it to version 3 in an attempt to solve the issue and ran the Install-Veeam script as well. Still get same error after completing those steps. I tried on a second guest as well and get the same error when running remote powershell from there as well.

[electricd7]

I have worked around this problem by scheduling the script I want to run as a scheduled task on the Veeam server with no trigger, and then just call the task from the remote machine via powershell. It works but its sloppy.

[veremin]

I'm running out of ideas. What OS the backup server and remote machine are using? In OS starting from Windows 2008, there are two PS - 32 and 64 bit. In the remote session you can try to load one or another and see whether it helps or not. Thanks.

[vbogda]

Hi All,

I've searched the interwebs long and hard but I can't find a solution to this problem. When I try to load the VeeamPSSnapin through a remote Powershell session I get the following error:

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Add-PSSnapin : Cannot load Windows PowerShell snap-in VeeamPSSnapIn because of the following error: Could not load file or assembly 'file:///C:\Program Files\Veeam\Backup and Replication\Backup\Veeam.Backup.PowerShell.dll' or one of its dependencies. This assembly is built by a runtime newer than the currently loaded runtime and cannot be loaded.
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidData: (VeeamPSSnapIn:String) [Add-PSSnapin], PSSnapInException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : AddPSSnapInRead,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.AddPSSnapinCommand

The error doesn't make sense because I'm remote Powershelling from an identical system. I get the error even when I remote powershell to localhost. I am beginning to think that it's some sort of a Win2K8 R2/Powershell combination bug.

Regards
vbogda

[veremin]

Hi,

Kindly, check suggestions provided above and see whether it makes any difference.

Thanks.

[pinkerton]

I just ran into the same issue and found the solution here:

http://richiban.uk/2012/08/23/ensuring- ... owershell/

After creating the files c:\windows\System32\wsmprovhost.exe.config and c:\windows\SysWOW64\wsmprovhost.exe.config with the following content, everything worked fine:

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
    <startup useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy="true">
         <supportedRuntime version="v4.0.30319"/>        
         <supportedRuntime version="v2.0.50727"/>        
    </startup>
</configuration>