V8 Get-VBRTapeJob changed

[CeeAr]

Hi,

i was able to get the latest tape backup session with

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$Job = Get-VBRTapeJob -name blablabla
$Session = $Job.FindLastSession()

In V8 the cmdlet changed and doesn't provide "FindLastSession" anymore.

How can i get the last session of a tape backup job?

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Get-VBRSession

looks promising but i cannot get it to run.

Thanks.

Chris

[veremin]

Hi, Chris,

Can you try something like this:

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$BTJ = Get-VBRTapeJob -Name "Name of your backup to tape job"
Get-VBRSession -Job $BTJ 

Thanks.

[CeeAr]

Thank you Vladimir that works!
I stuck on the next step.

V7 :

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$Info = $Session.GetTaskSessions()

Can you help out for V8 ? I've tried without luck:

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 Get-VBRTaskSession -Session $Session

Thanks again
Chris

[veremin]

I think that you can get access to the tasks' log information of the latest job session, using the following code:

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$Session = Get-VBRSession -Job $BTJ | Sort-Object creationtime | Select-Object -Last 1
$Session.Log

Thanks.

[CeeAr]

yes, but not for the single tasks. In V7 i was able to get more information like speed and bottleneck and check for each backup-to-disc-job that includes this backup-to-tape-job
My tape backup job copies all (5) backup to disk job to tape. I wanna get detailed information for each job and i was able to get that with V7 and powershell.

I think i'm looking for "Get-VBRTaskSession" for tape backup jobs

Thank you
Chris

[veremin]

You can try to implement the following workaround:

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$BTJ = Get-VBRTapeJob -Name "Name of backup to tape job"
$BackupSession = [veeam.backup.core.cbackupsession]::GetByJob($BTJ.id)
$BackupSession | Get-VBRTaskSession

However, can you tell me what particular information (parameters, fields) is missing in $Session.Log? I mean the information that is present in TaskSession.

Thanks.

[CeeAr]

Thanks that looks good.

Actually i'm trying to get the same information that are on the html report for each session


...to integrate in an "overall" report. Is there a better way to get these results for tape jobs?


Chris

[veremin]

For now the provided workaround should do the trick. We'll think how existing behaviour can be changed in the next versions, though. Thanks.

[bertdhont]

Is there a workaround to use 'Get-VBRTapeJob' in Veeam Standard edition?
In v7 that worked fine. in v8 I get a message:

Get-VBRTapeJob : This functionality is available in the Enterprise (or higher) edition only.
At line:1 char:22
+ $BTJ = Get-VBRTapeJob <<<< -Name "Tape Offload - Weekly"
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Get-VBRTapeJob], LicenseException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.ComponentModel.LicenseException,Veeam.Backup.PowerShell.Cmdlets.GetVBRTapeJob

I used that to stop a session that was waiting for a tape:

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Add-PSSnapin VeeamPSSnapin
Get-VBRTapeJob | ? {$_.GetLastState() -like "WaitingTape"} | Stop-VBRJob

Even in Enterprise version v8, that script doesn't work, because GetLastState() doesn't return the right value...

[veremin]

Hi, Bert,

We've added necessary license restrictions to certain tape commandlets. According to the plane, this behaviour will be fixed in the first patch.

Speaking about .GetLastState method, you can try to use .LastState parameter, instead.

Thanks.

[bertdhont]

Is it normal behavior that in PowerShell, you cannot get a Tape Job that is only used for full backup offload?
In the tape job, we did not select the option 'Process incremental backup files'.

In Powerhshell, we get the following error:

Get-VBRTapeJob : Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: incrementalBackupMediaPool
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+ Get-VBRTapeJob <<<< -name "Daily Backup - Weekly Tape Offload"
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Get-VBRTapeJob], ArgumentNullException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.ArgumentNullException,Veeam.Backup.PowerShell.Cmdlets.GetVBRTapeJob

[veremin]

So, the whole script looks like:

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Get-VBRTapeJob -name "Daily Backup - Weekly Tape Offload"

And it still fails, even though there is a job named "Daily Backup - Weekly Tape Offload", right?

Thanks.

[bertdhont]

Correct.

In the backup job, we only do an offload of the full backups:

[veremin]

Hi, I will ask our QA or dev team to take a look at this behaviour and let you know, once I have more information. Thanks.

[veremin]

This confirmed to be a bug and will be fixed in the first patch. Thanks.

[pdef]

Veeam BR 8 with Patch 1 installed.

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Get-VBRTapeJob | ? {$_.GetLastState() -like "WaitingTape"} | Stop-VBRJob

Still does not working..

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Get-VBRTapeJob : Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: name
At line:1 char:1
+ Get-VBRTapeJob | ? {$_.GetLastState() -like "WaitingTape"} | Stop-VBRJob
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Get-VBRTapeJob], ArgumentNullException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.ArgumentNullException,Veeam.Backup.PowerShell.Cmdlets.GetVBRTapeJob

Does anybody know how to Stop WaitingTape Jobs with Script?

[smarechal]

Hi,

Maybe i'm too late:

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Get-VBRTapeJob | Where-Object {$_.LastState -like "WaitingTape"} | Stop-VBRJob

[tdewin]

Seems like the pipeline is not returning anything (meaning no job is waiting). A safer way is to handle this whit foreach. Btw in v9 there seems to be no such function but there seems to be a field called "LastState"

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Get-VBRTapeJob | ? {$_.LastState -like "WaitingTape"} | % { $_ | Stop-VBRJob }

[veremin]

Maybe i'm too late

It's never too late to write a script.

And the one proposed by you should work fine, indeed, since starting from version 8 LastState is a static property, not a dynamic method, as it used to be previously.

Thanks.