Questions tagged [veeam]
49 questions
0
votes
0 answers
Server reboots when running Veeam PowersShell script
I have created the below script that what it does is to kill a specific Veeam process related to a job name. The issue is that it have to first find the the job id, then search in processes description for that ID and kill it. But i think somehow is…

Crit Scratch
- 43
- 1
- 10
0
votes
1 answer
Powershell - How to show only today files
I am dealing with this little script, which shows me the latest data from a Veeam Software job.
$today = (get-date).Date
(Get-VBRBackup | where {$_.info.jobname -eq "A. ProduccionInterna.Infraestructura"}).GetAllStorages() | select {$_.PartialPath},…

Alberto Cepero de Andrés
- 137
- 1
- 6
0
votes
1 answer
PowerShell - Get error/warning message of failed VM's in SureBackup Veeam
I'm trying to use this function Get-VSBSession to get error message of failed VM's in SureBackup.
This is my script:
$vbrsessions = Get-VSBSession | ?{$_.result -ne "success"}
foreach ($session in $vbrsessions)
{
foreach ($failedVM in…

Alessandro
- 3
- 3
0
votes
0 answers
Proper Powershell formatting SSL Cert Where | FriendlyName like $variable
Thanks for reading, I'm working on something a bit outside my element and trying to write a powershell script that can install some SSL Certificates into some Veeam Products.
This works.
Add-PSSnapin VeeamPSSnapin
Connect-VBRServer
$certificate =…

iKnowTech
- 13
- 4
0
votes
0 answers
Find-VBRViEntity returning no entities in veeam
I am new to Veeam backup and I have a small issue.
Get-VBRServer -Name "maryland" successfully returns a host. Running Find-VBRViEntity on this, however, no vm is returned. Any ideas why?

E_K
- 2,159
- 23
- 39
0
votes
0 answers
Restore Point Informations Veeam PowerShell
I want to get informations about the restore points of a vm.
I have a list with the names of each vm in a CSV.
I want to know for each restore Point the name of the VM, which Media Pool it is, which Media Set and the backup set date.
I Could not…
user9488111
0
votes
1 answer
How to Count Veeam Restore Points in PowerShell
I have written a little script to get the creation time of each restore point in the last x days:
$VMs = $ImportCSV # Names of Virtual Machines
$DateToCompare = 10
foreach ($vm in $VMs) {
$allRestorePoints = Get-VBRRestorePoint -Name $vm.Name…
user9488111
0
votes
2 answers
Powershell array working abnormally with commands
Coming from Linux, I'm trying to automate the gathering of Veeam Backup jobs with a PowerShell script.
I started to see how PowerShell arrays work, then I tried with a small test:
$users = 'mark','josh','stephen'
$city =…

Wolker
- 5
- 2
0
votes
1 answer
Scheduling Veeam Backup Free Edition backups for all VMs
I would like to use the free fersion of Veeam to backup my VMs on a Windows Hyper-V 2016 server. The free version of the tool does not provide a tool to do regular backups, so I have been looking at a way to use its API in combination with task…

bblue
- 545
- 5
- 24
0
votes
2 answers
Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5: Impossible to add hyper-v host to backup infrastructure (Network path not found, or invalid credentials supplied)
In the software Backup & Replication 9.5 it was not possible to add the local Hyper-V host (standalone) to the backup infrastructure:
Always gives an error "Network path not found, or invalid credentials supplied."
I tried first these tipps:…

Wave
- 69
- 2
- 3
0
votes
1 answer
Trouble with foreach logic
I'm trying to get a list of all virtual machines in all of my Veeam backup jobs. I wrote this
#Add Veeam snapin
Add-PSSnapin VeeamPSSnapin
#variables
$Masterlist = @()
$jobs = Get-VBRJob
foreach($job in $jobs) {
$backupJobObjects =…

Pickle
- 1,064
- 9
- 33
- 51
0
votes
2 answers
Veeam free fails to create or open file
I have a VMWare environment that i want to backup. i am using the freeware version of Veeam backup and replication. I want to run the backup from the cli and then ultimately use task scheduler, when i try to run the following…

Travis Smith
- 13
- 5
0
votes
0 answers
Accessing SMB share from Windows when using Powershell
I'm trying to build a custom VeeamZip backup script using PowerShell from a Windows 7 box. The box doesn't have the space requirements to hold the actual data itself, it's just the catalyst to manage the VeeamZip files.
I've been hunting around and…

Andrew
- 968
- 2
- 11
- 22
0
votes
1 answer
Creating Powershell script for VMWare using veeam
I am trying to create a script to automate the Veeam backup using PowerShell.
I know in the free version I only have 2 options (Veeamzip and Quick Backup).
I have a Drobo on the network with the share setup and accessible.
I have gone into all the…

Doug Brill
- 1
- 3
-1
votes
1 answer
Issue on SLES with Veeam Backup
Customer received following error when he start veeam backup:
Failed to execute agent management command start Backup. [...] Failed to detect bootloader on /dev/sda
System has been update from SLES 12 to SLES 15.
I've seen in log that this error…

hiero-nymus
- 31
- 4