Super Simple Get-VBRBackupSession

[AllSorts]

Looking for something really simply in Powershell to do the follow:

Show all jobs run in the last 30 days. I need the name, type (backup or duplicate), date run, status and amount of data each job backed up or duplicated to tape. All the PS scripts I've seen are way too complicated for what I need. I've been trying to get objects out of Get-VBRBackupSession but haven't been successful yet at getting all the info I need. Could someone please point me in the right direction.

Thanks.

[tsightler]

I believe this little one-liner gets a lot of what you need, although I don't think tape sessions are returned by Get-VBRBackupSession so that might need something else:

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Get-VBRBackupSession | ?{$_.CreationTime -ge (Get-Date).AddDays(-30)} | Select JobName, JobType, CreationTime, Result, @{Name="BackupSize";Expression={$_.BackupStats.BackupSize}} | Sort CreationTime | Format-Table

BTW, I'm not sure if you wanted source data size or backup data size after compression/dedupe, so I went with the latter. If you want the size of the source data you can change BackupSize to DataSize.

[veremin]

Also, Get-VBRBackupSession doesn't return tape job sessions, in order to get them leverage Get-VBRSession commandlet. Thanks.

[javierjq]

Good Tip
what if I want the Duration time of each Job ?

[oleg.feoktistov]

Then you can subtract tape session creation time from its end time since no Duration property exists in the type retrieved with Get-VBRSession:

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$tapeJob = Get-VBRTapeJob
$tapeSession = Get-VBRSession -Job $tapeJob
$duration = $tapeSession.EndTime - $tapeSession.CreationTime
$duration.ToString()

Thanks!