Veeam Backup Script Result in Subject of Email

[rghabel]

Hello everyone,

I have been backing up VMs for several years with the script Vladimir wrote back in 2015. It works well and have no problems with the functionality. I am only interested in a simple (hopefully simple) modification.

I have one script that backs up a single VM named "Server" on a VMware 6.7 ESXi host. I have tried modifying this script to put the job result in the email subject line to no avail. Here is what I've tried so far:
If ($EnableNotification)
{
$Message = New-Object System.Net.Mail.MailMessage $EmailFrom, "$EmailTo"
$Message.Subject = "$EmailSubject $VMNames- $_.Status"
$Message.IsBodyHTML = $True
$message.Body = $MesssagyBody | ConvertTo-Html -head $style | Out-String
$SMTP = New-Object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($SMTPServer)
$SMTP.Send($Message)
}

And here is what I receive in the email subject:
Backup Server- .Status

So I can pull the $VMNames to include the name of the VM, but I can't find the right variable to get the job's Result.

Any ideas?
Thanks!

[HannesK]

Hi,
I'm not a powershell expert, but it would probably help anyone who has more knowledge to have the full script.

I mean, $_. must get data from "somewhere". I'm missing the "somewhere" part.

Best regards,
Hannes

[veremin]

Hannes is right, you need to put there actual variable, something like:

$ZIPSession.Result or $ZIPSession.Status (don't have a console at hand to confirm the name of actual parameter)

Thanks!

[rghabel]

Well, over the past several months I haven't had the luck that I was hoping for... So far I've tried:

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$ZIPSession.Result = Veeam.Backup.Core.CBackupSession.Result
$ZIPSession.Status = Veeam.Backup.Core.CBackupSession.Status
$ZIPSession.Title   = Veeam.Backup.Core.CBackupSession.Title

I have modified the last section of the script like:
   If ($EnableNotification)
   {
   $Message = New-Object System.Net.Mail.MailMessage $EmailFrom, "$EmailTo4; $EmailTo5"
   $Message.Subject = "$EmailSubject $VMNames- $ZIPSession.Result
   $Message.IsBodyHTML = $True
   $message.Body = $MesssagyBody | ConvertTo-Html -head $style | Out-String
   $SMTP = New-Object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($SMTPServer)
   $SMTP.Send($Message)
   }

Any suggestions?

[veremin]

You have to take an actual session and assign its properties to $Zipsession variable.

You seem to be using this script, so, I'd recommend checking how the email notification is implemented there.

Thanks!

[rghabel]

Thank you Vladimir. I appreciate your suggestion.
Your right, this is your script. However, I'm not a PS guy. I can script well enough in an old batch file, but those were different times... This has been a pet project for a Church that I volunteer for. All of the rest of our customers have bought and purchased Veeam Enterprise (in paid environments you just don't have this kind of a need).

I've tried looking through the email notification section, but I don't see a variable that is past on to that portion of the script. It looks like the report is past on in it's entirety to the email portion.

I've also looked through Veeam's command line variables and don't see a result variable that could be past on to the email section. So I'm at a loss.

[veremin]

- Running Start-VBRZip returns an object of CBackupSession type (Start-VBRZip <...>)
- You need to assign this object to a variable ($ZIPSession = Start-VBRZip <...>)
- Then, you can query task sessions of this object and check their logs ($TaskSessions = $ZIPSession.GetTaskSessions().logger.getlog().updatedrecords <...>)

Hope it makes sense.

Thanks!