Start-VBRQuickBackup for multiple VMs in the same job

[tGYtYI]

We are trying to integrate Veeam in to our patch management product. Due to the high number of VMs to be patched we have to throttle the number of concurrent servers applying patches. An example we can have 100 servers in a patch group but only 10 servers patching at one time. By the time the last servers are patching it could be hours later.

To protect us against a patch failure or unexpected issue during the patching process we want to leverage Veeam to perform a on demand backup directly before the patch process for that specific server. We have the functionality configured in the patch software to execute a pre-install function and can utilize the Veeam powershell for integration. The powershell we are attempting to use is the following.

Find-VBRViEntity -Name <server name> |Start-VBRQuickBackup

However because the many of the servers are in the same job but patched at a different time period we run into an overlap issue "Failed to perform quick backup Reason: Job in progress" Is there a way around this issue?

[veremin]

Basically, there are two options:

1) Identify VMs belonging to the same job and execute quick backup operation for those VMs at the same time (-VM parameter accepts arrays)
2) Check whether quick backup task is already running and pause script in case of positive (timeout)

Thanks.