VBR backup job estimated size

[matteu]

Hello,

I would like to know what is the good command to go to calculate the estimated backup copy job size (the second screen when we create a job) because what I find doesn't work everytime.

I use

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$VmwareBkpJobs = Get-VBRJob | Where-Object {$_.TypeToString -eq "VMware Backup"}
foreach ($element in $VmwareBkpJobs)
{
    $element.name
    $element.info.IncludedSize / 1GB -as [INT]
}

I know it's working for 15TB job but it's not for 25TB.
I suppose I need to use an other way ?

Then, how is it possible to have this information for backup to tape job pls ?

Thanks

[matteu]

Just to add it's not working for backup, backup copy, replication

[david.domask]

Hey @matteu,

This is a more complex question than it seems

In "most" cases, you can get away with passing the CBackupJob object returned from Get-VBRJob to Get-VBRJobObject

This will give you output like:

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PS C:\Users\Administrator> $job |Get-VBRJobObject

Name                      Type       ApproxSize       Location
----                      ----       ----------       --------
DDom-TinyVM_migrated      Include    0 B             somevcenter...
somevcenter.lo... Include    9.6 TB           somevcenter...

And you can sum up ApproxSize value.

Note that you need to consider if you want to count the excluded objects also (they will have Type -eq Exclude), but that's a decision best left for you

Backup Copies are unique though in that you can also add objects by LinkedJob property, so you need to do some logic to check if there are linked jobs (Linked Backups work alright and add infrastructure objects so no need for special handling):

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$job = Get-VBRjob -name 'somebackupcopy'

if($job.LinkedJobs){
     $linkedjobobjects = (Get-VBRJob | Where-Object {$_.id -eq $job.LinkedJobs.LinkedJobID}) | Get-VBRJobObject
}

You'll initialize some array and add the $linkedjobobjects to the array and then you can sum it along with the items returned by Get-VBRJobObject.

[matteu]

Thank you for your answer.

I will try if I get the information for tape with the same logical than backup copy