Wait for Process to end

[deveritt]

I have a script that works when I open a prompt and run the script, It takes a VeeamZip then pushes that file to the cloud. When I try to use a scheduled task to run the script is doesn't wait for the Start-VBRip command to finish before moving on so nothing gets pushed to the cloud. Anyone know how to force the script to wait for that process to finish before moving on to the next? Thank you.

PARAM([string]$VMName)
asnp VeeamPSSnapin
$GlacierSync = "C:\Program Files\fastglacier\"
$Server = Get-VBRServer -name "10.1.2.6" | where {$_.type -eq "VC"}
$Entity = $Server | Find-VBRViEntity -name $VMName
$Path = "C:\VZips\" + $VMName
$GlacierPath = "GPBackups/" + $VMName

Start-VBRZip -folder $Path -Entity $Entity -Compression 9

forfiles -p $Path /D -13 -c "cmd /c del @path"

cd $GlacierSync
.\glacier-sync GPBackups $Path us-west-2 $GlacierPath nhs

[veremin]

Hi David, not sure why the script doesn't wait for session's end, as by default PS should execute commands in synchronous fashion. You can try to save the following portion as a separate script (say, "C:\Script\VBRZip.ps1"):

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PARAM([string]$VMName)
asnp VeeamPSSnapin
$Server = Get-VBRServer -name "10.1.2.6" | where {$_.type -eq "VC"}
$Entity = $Server | Find-VBRViEntity -name $VMName
$Path = "C:\VZips\" + $VMName
Start-VBRZip -folder $Path -Entity $Entity -Compression 9

And then refer to it via Start-Process commandlet within a script that is scheduled in Windows Scheduler. The Start-Process commandlet has -Wait parameter that might come in quite handy:

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$GlacierSync = "C:\Program Files\fastglacier\"
$GlacierPath = "GPBackups/" + $VMName
Start-Process -FilePath "C:\Script\VBRZip.ps1" -Wait
forfiles -p $Path /D -13 -c "cmd /c del @path"
cd $GlacierSync
.\glacier-sync GPBackups $Path us-west-2 $GlacierPath nhs

Thanks.