check_veeam_backups

Great script, helped quite a bit here. I am using VBR 9, so I haven't attempted to work anything on v10 yet. I did however fork the project and create a separate script for backup copies. Both are working in my environment. Feedback is appreciated.

https://github.com/rich568117/check_veeam_backup_copy

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Hi,

Here are some edits to be compatible with v10.0. Get-VBRJobSchedule and also GetScheduleOptions() returns data from an outdated location.



Replace
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if ($status -eq "None"){
$status = (Get-VBRBackupSession -Name $job.name | sort -Descending)[1].Result
}
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by
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if ($status -eq "None"){
$status = (Get-VBRBackupSession -Name ($job.name.ToString()+'*') | sort -Descending)[1].Result
}
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In v10 the BackupSession's name parameter includes the type of run (incremental / Full).



Replace
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$last = $job.GetScheduleOptions()
$last = $last -replace '.*Latest run time: [', ''
$last = $last -replace '], Next run time: .*', ''
$last = $last.split(' ')[0]
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by
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$last = $job.LatestRunLocal.ToString()
$last.Split(' ')[0]
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to be compatible with the jobs "backup copy"

Add this after "$status = $job.GetLastResult()" :
if ($status -eq "None")
{
$status = (Get-VBRBackupSession -Name $job.name | sort -Descending)[1].Result
}



(Source : https://forums.veeam.com/powershell-f26/result-value-from-backup-copy-jobs-is-always-none-t20512.html#p186505)

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Hi
script return me this error: Snap-in not installed...
instead "asnp VeeamPSSnapin" i use "Add-PSSnapin -Name VeeamPSSnapIn -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue" and it works.
Thanks
Diego

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If you upgrade your Veeam to V9, you have a little action to enable powershell console-in :

Reference : helpcenter.veeam.com/backup/powershell/getting_started.html

Enable Powershell :
PS C:check_nagios> Add-PSSnapin VeeamPSSnapin

Exec Powershell command :
PS C:check_nagios> Get-VBRJob -Name *Citrix* FreeBackupImpl : IsFree : False UserCryptoKey : Id : ab7b260e-699f-47dc-916c-xxxxxxxxxxx Info : Veeam.Backup.Model.CDbBackupJobInfo JobType : Backup SourceType : VDDK JobTargetType : Backup TargetType : Other TypeToString : VMware Backup Description : Created by XXXXXXXXXX at 27/11/2015 15:39. Name : Citrix_XXXXX BackupPlatform : EVmware TargetHostId : 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 TargetDir : 10.xx.xx.xxXXXXXX TargetFile : Citrix_XXXXX

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There's a missing bracket in Line 61.

This one works perfectly - also with B&R 8:

if((Get-Date $now) -gt (Get-Date $last))

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Excellent script. During attemps to get it up and running, I encountered two problems.
1. There is a bug at line 56 - missing opening bracket.
Good:
if((Get-Date $now) -gt (Get-Date $last))
Wrong:
if(Get-Date $now) -gt (Get-Date $last))

Second, I have Windows 2012 server as my Veeam box. Locales are Czech. From some unknown reason, all functions like Get-Date return date in English format (even more confusing, when you try the same from command line, the locales _are_ taken into account). However, the GetScheduleOptions call returns date with proper locale, so after this attempt to convert it to date results in format error. Even I don´t understand exact nature of this problem, I found fix (this is for Czech format date):
The section of the code looks like this:
...
$last = $last -replace '], Next run time: .*', ''

$fmt="d. M. yyyy H:mm:ss"
$last = [datetime]::ParseExact($last,$fmt, $null)

if((Get-Date $now) -gt (Get-Date $last))
...

Hope this will somebody save some time.

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Mostly works out the box, cheers. I found a couple of bugs which might help someone else:

Firstly line 13 threw an error about the SnapIn already being added - fix was to comment it out:

13: #asnp VeeamPSSnapin

Secondly, the date comparison really didn't work, so I changed it from:

56: if ($now -gt $last)

to

56: if(Get-Date $now) -gt (Get-Date $last))

Which seemed to do the job quite nicely. :-)

If that inadvertently cocks up something else, then whoops - this is the first and hopefully only time I've had to deal with powershell. Give me bash any day...

Thanks

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Hi,
I tested that script on my Veaam Backup server and nothing seems to happen as you can see below :

PS C:Program FilesNSClient++scripts> cmd /c echo check_veeam_backups.ps1 "[BKUP]-SALAG" 3; exit($lastexitcode) | powershell.exe -command -
check_veeam_backups.ps1 [BKUP]-SALAG 3

The job [BKUP]-SALAG ended successfuly yesterday evening.
Do you have any explanation ?

Rgds,

Frederic

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