Hello everyone,
These last days I have been performing several support services related to Veeam Backup & Replication where I have had the opportunity to use more Veeam PowerShell modules. So in this opportunity I will be showing you in a basic way how to get information related to the repositories connected to the Backup server. As always it is necessary to establish a connection to the Backup server using the Connect-VBRServer command.
PS C:\Users\jocolon> Connect-VBRServer -Server veeam-vbr.pharmax.local -Credential (Get-Credential)
cmdlet Get-Credential at command pipeline position 1
Supply values for the following parameters:
User: pharmax\administrator
Password for user pharmax\administrator: ````
PS C:\Users\jocolon>
After connecting to the server you can use the Get-VBRBackupRepository command to identify the repositories connected to the Backup server.
PS C:\Users\jocolon> Get-VBRBackupRepository
Name Type Host FriendlyPath Description
---- ---- ---- ------------ -----------
VEEAM-DD DDBoost VEEAM-VBR.ph... ddboost://VE... Created by PHARMAX\administrator
ONTAP Snapshot SanSnapsh... VEEAM-VBR.ph... ONTAP Storage Primary storage snapshot only
VEEAM-HPE-StoreOnce-VSA HPStoreOn... VEEAM-VBR.ph... storeonce://... Created by PHARMAX\administrator
Linux - Hardened Repos... LinuxLocal veeam-lnx-px... /backup_data... Created by PHARMAX\jocolon
PS C:\Users\jocolon>
As you can see the result of the cmdlet seems a bit incomplete as it does not show some important information such as the used space. In order to obtain this information I provide you with a basic example that allows you to obtain more relevant information.
$OutObj = @()
if ((Get-VBRServerSession).Server) {
try {
[Array]$BackupRepos = Get-VBRBackupRepository | Where-Object {$_.Type -ne "SanSnapshotOnly"}
[Array]$ScaleOuts = Get-VBRBackupRepository -ScaleOut
if ($ScaleOuts) {
foreach ($ScaleOut in $ScaleOuts) {
$Extents = Get-VBRRepositoryExtent -Repository $ScaleOut
foreach ($Extent in $Extents) {
$BackupRepos = $BackupRepos + $Extent.repository
}
}
}
foreach ($BackupRepo in $BackupRepos) {
$PercentFree = 0
if (@($($BackupRepo.GetContainer().CachedTotalSpace.InGigabytes),$($BackupRepo.GetContainer().CachedFreeSpace.InGigabytes)) -ne 0) {
$UsedSpace = ($($BackupRepo.GetContainer().CachedTotalSpace.InGigabytes-$($BackupRepo.GetContainer().CachedFreeSpace.InGigabytes)))
if ($UsedSpace -ne 0) {
$PercentFree = ($UsedSpace/$($BackupRepo.GetContainer().CachedTotalSpace.InGigabytes)).tostring("P")
}
}
$inObj = [ordered] @{
'Name' = $BackupRepo.Name
'Total Space' = "$($BackupRepo.GetContainer().CachedTotalSpace.InGigabytes)Gb"
'Free Space' = "$($BackupRepo.GetContainer().CachedFreeSpace.InGigabytes)Gb"
'Percent Used' = $PercentFree
'Status' = Switch ($BackupRepo.IsUnavailable) {
'False' {'Available'}
'True' {'Unavailable'}
default {$BackupRepo.IsUnavailable}
}
}
$OutObj += [pscustomobject]$inobj
}
$OutObj | Format-Table -Wrap -AutoSize
}
catch {
Write-Output $_.Exception.Message
}
}
In the following example I show you the output of the resulting code to get the information about the repositories connected to the Veeam Backup server.
Name Total Space Free Space Percent Used Status
---- ----------- ---------- ------------ ------
VEEAM-DD 351Gb 292Gb 16.81% Available
VEEAM-HPE-StoreOnce-VSA 0Gb 0Gb 0 Unavailable
Linux - Hardened Repository 199Gb 198Gb 0.50% Available
E - Backup Repository 499Gb 461Gb 7.62% Available
F - Backup Repository 99Gb 99Gb 0 Available
E - Backup Repository - VEEAM-VBR-02V 99Gb 5Gb 94.95% Available
F - Backup Repository - VEEAM-VBR-02V 99Gb 98Gb 1.01% Available
I hope you enjoyed this post and find it useful in your professional journey.