Alerts/Reports for Tape Usage

[cesarMon]

Greetings,
I have a client that wants to know the total free space or the total space usage in a specific tape media pool. I tried to find this through the standard Veeam ONE reports, but as far as I was able to see the only one that kinda does this is the "Backups on Tape" report, but it shows the free space in every tape drive. I would prefer to see the total free space or the total space usage of the media pool.
Is there any other ways to see this? Idk, like through some scripts or configuring some kind of alerts in Veeam ONE or even Veeam B&R.

[jorgedlcruz]

Hello Cesar,
We had similar feedback from other Customers, so a request has been created and it will be improved in future releases of the product.

My colleague David put a great PowerShell together you might want to give it a try on your VBR:

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using namespace System.Collections.Generic

function Get-VBRTapesInLibrary {
	param(
		[Veeam.Backup.PowerShell.Infos.VBRTapeLibrary[]]$Library
		)
	$TapesInLibrary = Get-VBRTapeMedium | Where-Object {$_.LibraryID -eq $Library.id}
	return $TapesInLibrary
}

function New-TapeLocationPropertiesObject {
	param(
		[Veeam.Backup.PowerShell.Infos.VBRTapeMedium[]]$tapemedium
	)
	$TapeBarcode = $tapemedium.Barcode
	$TapeName = $tapemedium.Name
	$TapeLocation = $tapemedium.Location.Type
	if($tapemedium.Location.Type -eq "Drive"){
		$LocationAddress = ($Drives | Where-Object {$_.id -eq $tapemedium.Location.DriveID}).Name
	} else { 
		$LocationAddress = $tapemedium.Location.SlotAddress
	}
	$TapeLibrary = $tapemedium.LibraryID
	$TapeObjectProperties = [PSCustomObject]@{
		TapeBarcode = $TapeBarcode
		TapeName = $TapeName
		TapeLocation = $TapeLocation
		LocationAddress = $LocationAddress
		TapeLibrary = $TapeLibrary
	}
	return $TapeObjectProperties
}

 
$Libraries = Get-VBRTapeLibrary
$Drives = Get-VBRTapeDrive
$LibraryInventory = [List[Object]]@()
Foreach($tl in $Libraries){
	$TapesInLibrary = Get-VBRTapesInLibrary -Library $tl
	Foreach($tape in $TapesInLibrary){
		$TapeProperties = New-TapeLocationPropertiesObject -tapemedium $tape
		$LibraryInventory.Add($TapeProperties)
	}
}

$LibraryInventory | Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation -Path C:\temp\TapeLibraryInventoryReport.csv

Change the path to wherever you want it.

Thanks!