A few posts back I described how you can document your Veeam backup job settings. This gives a great overview, especially if you have many jobs to keep track of. As I mentioned, I had found a few inconsistencies across jobs and in this post I’ll show how to update all jobs via a small script. You can imagine the time saved by not having to open each and every job, check the settings and update if needed.
For this exercise I choose a subset of the options available, we’re not going to be updating every possible option, just the ones we needed to get our jobs back in shape. I choose the following options to update via the script, though any others could be easily added:
- Deduplication enabled
- Compression Level
- Block Size (storage optimizations)
- Integrity Check enabled
- Remove Deleted VMs
- Retain Deleted VMs (Days)
Hopefully this will save someone else a bit of time as it has for me.
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| <# | |
| .SYNOPSIS | |
| Update Veeam Backup Job Details | |
| .DESCRIPTION | |
| This script will adjust settings across all Veeam backup jobs. | |
| Individual settings can be added/removed as needed. | |
| .NOTES | |
| Author: Shawn Masterson | |
| Created: December 2013 | |
| Version: 1.0 | |
| REQUIREMENTS | |
| Intended to be run direct on the VBR server with Veeam Powershell addin installed | |
| Powershell v2 or better | |
| Veeam Backup and Replication v7 | |
| .EXAMPLE | |
| .\VeeamUpdateJobs.ps1 | |
| .DISCLAIMER: | |
| There is very little error catching built into this script | |
| USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! | |
| #> | |
| #——————————————————————– | |
| # Parameters | |
| #——————————————————————– | |
| # User Defined Variables | |
| # Enable deduplication ($true/$false) | |
| $dedupe = $true | |
| # Compression Level (Auto=1,None=0,Dedupe=4,Optimal=5,High=6,Extreme=9) | |
| $complvl = 5 | |
| # Block Size (KbBlockSize256/WAN Target=0,KbBlockSize512/LAN Target=1,KbBlockSize1024/Local Target=3, | |
| # KbBlockSize2048=4,KbBlockSize4096=5,KbBlockSize8192/Local Target(16TB+ Files)=6,Auto=7) | |
| $blocksize = 1 | |
| # Enable Integrity Check | |
| $integcheck = $true | |
| # Remove deleted VMs ($true/$false) | |
| $removedeleted = $true | |
| # Retain Deleted VMs (Days) | |
| $retaindeleted = 14 | |
| #——————————————————————– | |
| # Static Variables | |
| $scriptName = "VeeamUpdateJobs" | |
| $scriptVer = "1.0" | |
| $starttime = Get-Date –uformat "%m-%d-%Y %I:%M:%S" | |
| #——————————————————————– | |
| # Load Snap-ins | |
| # Add Veeam snap-in if required | |
| If ((Get-PSSnapin –Name VeeamPSSnapin –ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -eq $null) {add-pssnapin VeeamPSSnapin} | |
| #——————————————————————– | |
| # Functions | |
| #——————————————————————– | |
| # Main Procedures | |
| Clear-Host | |
| Write-Host "********************************************************************************" | |
| Write-Host "$scriptName`tVer:$scriptVer`t`t`tStart Time:`t$starttime" | |
| Write-Host "********************************************************************************`n" | |
| # Get Backup Jobs | |
| $jobs = Get-VBRJob | ?{$_.JobType -eq "Backup"} | |
| # Loop through each job updating options | |
| foreach ($job in $jobs) { | |
| Write-Host "Setting job options on"$job.Name –ForegroundColor Yellow | |
| $job | Set-VBRJobAdvancedStorageOptions –EnableDeduplication $dedupe –CompressionLevel $complvl –StorageBlockSize $blocksize | Out-Null | |
| $job | Set-VBRJobAdvancedOptions –EnableIntegrityChecks $integcheck –RetainDays $retaindeleted | Out-Null | |
| $jOptions = Get-VBRJobOptions $job | |
| $jOptions.BackupStorageOptions.EnableDeletedVmDataRetention = $removedeleted | |
| $job | Set-VBRJobOptions –Options $jOptions | Out-Null | |
| } | |
| #——————————————————————– | |
| # Outputs | |
| Write-Host "`nProcessing Complete" –ForegroundColor Yellow | |
| $finishtime = Get-Date –uformat "%m-%d-%Y %I:%M:%S" | |
| Write-Host "`n`n" | |
| Write-Host "********************************************************************************" | |
| Write-Host "$scriptName`t`t`t`tFinish Time:`t$finishtime" | |
| Write-Host "********************************************************************************" | |
| # Prompt to exit script – This leaves PS window open when run via right-click | |
| Write-Host "`n`n" | |
| Write-Host "Press any key to continue …" –foregroundcolor Gray | |
| $x = $host.UI.RawUI.ReadKey("NoEcho,IncludeKeyDown") |
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