Veeam Agent in protection group, find sessions

[masonit]

Hi

Is there any support for finding sessions for Veeam Agent in protection group? Get-VBRBackupSession does not work.

\Masonit

[jhoughes]

Here's some code that will return all job & task sessions for agent backup jobs. You can add a parameter to specify a job name, if you need to target a single job.

As written, it will return these as the variables $AllJobSessions (job session IDs only), and $AllTaskSessions (full details of each task session).

Here's the code to query the agent job task sessions, hope it helps.

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$AgentJobs = Get-VBRJob | Where-Object {$_.JobType -eq 'EpAgentBackup'}

[System.Collections.ArrayList]$AllJobSessions = @()
[System.Collections.ArrayList]$AllTaskSessions = @()
foreach ($AgentJob in $AgentJobs){

    $JobSessions = [Veeam.Backup.Core.CBackupSession]::GetByJob($AgentJob.Id)

    if ([bool]$JobSessions){

        foreach ($CurrentSession in $JobSessions) {
            
          $auxdata = [xml]$CurrentSession.Info.AuxData
          $SessionIDs = (($auxdata.AuxData.EpPolicyJobSessionContext.Sessions) -split ';')

          foreach ($SingleSessionID in $SessionIDs) {
            if (![String]::IsNullOrWhiteSpace($SingleSessionID)) {

              $null = $AllJobSessions.Add($SingleSessionID)
  
            }
  
          }

        }

      }

    $UniqueJobSessions = $AllJobSessions | Select-Object -Unique
    
    foreach ($CurrentSessionID in $UniqueJobSessions) {

      $TaskSessions = Get-VBRTaskSession (Get-VBRSession -Id $CurrentSessionID)

      foreach ($CurrentTaskSession in $TaskSessions) {

        $null = $AllTaskSessions.Add($CurrentTaskSession)

      }

    }

}

Write-Output $AllTaskSessions

Only the $AllTaskSessions will be written to the pipeline, and you can dig further into the details with:

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$AllTaskSessions | Select-Object -First 1 -Property *

[masonit]

Thanks!

I guess cmdlets for this will be available in later versions?

\Masonit

[veremin]

Correct, we're planning to have a specific cmdlet in version 10. Thanks!

[masonit]

Great!

I am trying to see if I can get disk usage (not total size) on Veeam Agents (protection group) from VBR server. I can see in the session info for each agent that VBR is collecting this info, ex:

2019-11-08 01:00:16 :: Total size: 1004,6 GB (590,6 GB used)

Is there a better way of collecting this info than with session logs?

\Masonit

[masonit]

Here's some code that will return all job & task sessions for agent backup jobs. You can add a parameter to specify a job name, if you need to target a single job.

As written, it will return these as the variables $AllJobSessions (job session IDs only), and $AllTaskSessions (full details of each task session).

Here's the code to query the agent job task sessions, hope it helps.

Only the $AllTaskSessions will be written to the pipeline, and you can dig further into the details with:

Hi jhoughes

Is it possible to control tasksessions to collect? Maybe just sessions for last 4 days? It seems like it collects all available sessions. Takes a long time..

\Masonit

[jhoughes]

Sure, at the top of the 'foreach ($CurrentSession in $JobSessions)' loop, you could add an if statement to check if the date is within the last 4 days.

It would skip the job sessions otherwise.

[masonit]

Thanks!

Any idea how to collect disk usage on Veeam Agents from VBR?

\Masonit

[veremin]

Session should have a backedupsize property that seems to provide information you're after. Thanks!

[masonit]

Yes! Thanks!

\Masonit

[masonit]

Hi!

I have been using the session backedupsize properties since my last reply in this thread. It has been working perfect so far. But now I have an issue. I have one pg with a ad Windows file cluster object. That file cluster is backuped with a vbr job. The cluster (clu01) is between 2 servers (server01, server02). When the backup runs I can see in the gui session that first clu01 appears and later server01 and server02 starts to backup up. In the session info servrer01 and server02 is not providing any diskusage info. It is only clu01 that show this info and it seems like it is a total value of both server01 and server02. But when when looking at the powershell session data. Clu01 is not showing any backedupsize data. It's only server01 and server02 that has this. Is there an easy way to collect the total backedupsize properties for the cluster as it is shown in the gui? Or do I need to add the cluster nodes together (server01, server02).

\Magnus

[oleg.feoktistov]

Hey Magnus,

Try the method below:

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$job = Get-VBRJob -Name "Cluster backup job"
$sessions = $job.FindLastSession()
$child = $sessions.GetChildSessions()
$child[0].BackupTotalSize 

Thanks,
Oleg