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Nov 11, 2015 ∞

how to see veeam backups in powershell

This allows you to see veeam backups for a specified server over the last week.

The code

Enter-PSSession yourveeamserver 
Add-PSSnapin VeeamPSSnapIn 
Get-VBRBackupSession | ? JobName -like "*yourtargetserver*" | ? endtime -gt $(get-date).adddays(-7) | 
    select jobname, jobtype, creationtime, endtime, result, state | sort-object -property jobname, endtime | 
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Explanation

Explaining this a little…..

This line ‘remotes’ to the veeam server. Getting Powershell remoting set-up is another subject. I’d recommend the Powershell help topic about_remote_troubleshooting, if it doesn’t ‘just work’.

Enter-PSSession yourveeamserver

This loads all the veeam cmdlets into memory

Add-PSSnapin VeeamPSSnapIn

This line depends on your Veeam job having the name of the server you’re interested in, in the title. You can run a command to show which job backs up which database. I’ll perhaps post that soon.

Get-VBRBackupSession | ? JobName -like "*yourtargetserver*" | ? endtime -gt $(get-date).adddays(-7) | 
    select jobname, jobtype, creationtime, endtime, result, state | sort-object -property jobname, endtime | 
    ft -AutoSize