Documentation of all jobs within B&R

[kaithost]

Hi guys,

I am currently spending a lot of time on documentation of veeam backup configuration:

- which VM is covered by which backup job (including VMs in folders)
- what are the parameters, VSS, indexing, retention, target repo
- which VMs are covered by copy jobs, which frequency, retention

in other words: how is veeam configured to backup the whole infrastructure?

as far a I understand ONE has reports for the actual backup status, but not for the configuration.

Is there any tool or 3rd party application on this?
I hope you guys can help because it's a real hassle to write down a documentation and keep track of the changes over time ...

Thanx!

[foggy]

Hi Kai, are you after something like that?

[kaithost]

hi foggy,

this could be it. gonna have a look in the details. hopefully there is a report which produces human readable data

[foggy]

If you have any suggestions on how it could be improved, you're welcome.

[Vitaliy S.]

This report can also come in handy.

[kaithost]

Hi guys,

the reports are not bad, but not the solution for what we are looking for.

There is no report which documents this:

- which VM is covered by which backup job (including VMs in folders) -> the config report just covers jobs, not the VMs included in the job
- what are the parameters, VSS, indexing, retention, target repo -> it's al in the config report, just VERY detailed

From the documentation point of view and to answer simply the question: "how are backing up the VMs?" - veeam reporter has all the data,
just not a report to answer this.
The configuration report just has to include all VMs covered in the job and we are good. the information should be at a prominent location
at the top of the report since this is one of the first things people will look for.

on the exclusion report: does this answer the question: "Which VMs don't get covered by backup?" - it seems to me that this report only covers exlusions
configured in the jobs. if I am right - there should be a report for "negative logic" : List of VMs which are not getting backed up.

This too shouldn't be a big deal and helpful for everyone using B&R / Reports.

Regards
Kai

[tdewin]

If you need an overview of VM's that are not being backed up, you might take a look a the protected vm report. Additionally it can check if that even if the VM's are being backed up, that there is a restore point considering your RPO
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/one/r ... tml?ver=95

[kaithost]

ok, this seem to solve our secondary target, thanx!

Any thought on the primary objective on documentation?

[Vitaliy S.]

Kai, if you need less details on the job, then using Protected VMs Job Schedule should help. As regards, your main objective, then doesn't the report foggy has referenced above the problem, since it does list all the VMs in the Undefined area in the VirtualMachines column.

[ThierryF]

Hello,

I am writing such a free reporting tool. You can access beta version from
https://onedrive.live.com/?id=14190B6B5 ... 6B5B8ECCD5
It mainly focus on VmWare vms at time being but I am open to any feedback.

Doc is not ready yet but it's quite simple to setup. It does not require any setup and
does not add any reg keys.

As it uses powershell and Veeam Powershell cmds, on a node where veeam BR console
is installed or on Veeam server (I have tested it with 9.5.3),
create a dir and unrar the downloaded kit. Unrar.
You will extract a bin, data and logs folders.

Under BIN folder, create your config file (ex myconfig.cfg) taking the sample.cfg file
for sample. You should use a windows account that can perform WMI queries
and that is granted into Veeam. (no modif, just data gathering)

Then look at sample.bat and adapt the paths. You should change dir to bin sub folder
to start the bin. Assuming you extracted in D:\veeam\REPORTING, your sample.bat
should looks like

D:
cd D:\veeam\REPORTING\bin
veeam_reporting.exe myconfig.cfg

It will run and collect info from veeam. Allows time to complete.

When completed, open data\<myconfig>\index.html.

Feel free for comments !

PS : My share also contains analytics tools for San, Storwize storage,
Microsoft Windows server and cluster, hyperv, Lan Manager and VMWare.
Feel free ...

Th

[kaithost]

Hi Thierry

appreciated! I'll have a look into it and provide feedback.

Best regards
Kai

[ThierryF]

Already got a look ?

TH

[kaithost]

Hi Thierry,

unfortunately I got no clearance to run foreign executables :-/

Maybe I can setup an isolated test lab. If this is the case, i'll get back to you.