VEEAM Maintenance Mode PowerShell Scripts

This is great , @Martin Weber ! 😊 Thank you for sharing and welcome to the Community Hub 😉

Great 😎👍🏼

We have spoken about this yesterday. Saves me some development time 😁

Hey Martin, thanks for sharing!

These are great scripts for sure.  Thanks for sharing, Martin.  Another thing to add to my repository collection. 😎

Is this query reliable?

$STATES = ( $JOBS | SELECT Id, Name, @{N="IsScheduleEnabled";E={$_.info.IsScheduleEnabled}} )

In my environment the IsScheduleEnabled parameter is true for every job, with or without schedule….

Any similar experiences?

Edit:
Tested now in a V11 environment - there is the parameter set correct.
Has V12 a problem with this or is there any other parameter for this in V12?

Just created some unscheduled test jobs in V12 and all have set the IsScheduledEnabled parameter to True.

Thank you @Martin Weber , this is great 😃

@JMeixnerYes, there is a “Feature” ( BUG :P ) in my script

$Job.IsSchdeuleEnabled is $False if the Job is running automatically and if you set the to disable. If it is manual job with no active scheduler, you are not able to disable them - and then IsScheduleEnable is always $True.

The better name for this Property should be IsActive…

Edit

It is not a bug - but I will further check it. I just added a filter for disabeling jobs if it is scheduleable (automatic scheduler)

Ah yes, I thought the wrong way because of the name of the parameter.

Thank you for the clarification @Martin Weber 😎👍🏼

@JMeixner No Problem :)

Also be aware of the cmdlet Remove-VBRRestorePoint!

Get-VBRRestorePoint list every single restore point of a vm. BUT Remove-VBRRestorePoint did not remove a single point, it will remove the whole VM from the storage...

Very useful script @Martin Weber !

Try proposing a feature request on the Veeam forum, after all, it is a feature already present for VCC and VSPC!

Hi @Martin Weber , there is a slight typo in the Calculated Property:

Old code with comma:

$STATES = ($JOBS | Select-Object Id, Name, IsScheduleEnabled, @{ N = "IsSchedulable", E = { $_.IsSchedulable() } })

Updated code with semicolon:

$STATES = ($JOBS | Select-Object Id, Name, IsScheduleEnabled, @{ N = "IsSchedulable"; E = { $_.IsSchedulable() } })

Hope that helps.

@vAdmin Thanks, yes this was a typo … ashes to my head 🤕

I fixed it on the Repo

German Veeam Usergroup power here ! Thank you @Martin Weber for sharing !
Sharing is Caring!

Thank you @Martin Weber!

Thanks for sharing

param(
  [switch]$DryRun=$False
)

Import-Module Veeam.Backup.PowerShell

Function log($message) {
  $timestamp = Get-Date -Format "yyyy-MM-ss hh:mm:ss"
  Write-Host "$($timestamp) - $($message)"
}

if($DryRun) { log "DRY RUN - NOTHING WILL CHANGE" }

$_FILE = "$PSScriptRoot/job_states.json"
if( [System.IO.File]::Exists($_FILE) ) {
  log "State File already exists - remove it first!!"
  pause
  Exit 1
}


# Create new, empty state file
New-Item -Path $_FILE -Force | Out-Null

log "Load Jobs"
$JOBS = Get-VBRJob

# Save list of current jobs state (enabled/disabled)
log "Dump Job states to file"
$STATES = ( $JOBS | SELECT Id, Name, @{N="IsScheduleEnabled";E={$_.info.IsScheduleEnabled}} )
$STATES | ConvertTo-Json | Out-File -FilePath $_FILE

# Stop All running jobs
log "Stop all Jobs"
if(-not $DryRun) { $JOBS | Stop-VBRJob -RunAsync }

# Disable all Jobs
log "Disable all jobs"
if(-not $DryRun) { $JOBS | Disable-VBRJob | Out-Null }

log "Finish"

pause 

param(
  [switch]$DryRun=$False
)
Import-Module Veeam.Backup.PowerShell

Function log($message) {
  $timestamp = Get-Date -Format "yyyy-MM-ss hh:mm:ss"
  Write-Host "$($timestamp) - $($message)"
}

if($DryRun) { log "DRY RUN - NOTHING WILL CHANGE" }

$_FILE = "$PSScriptRoot/job_states.json"
if( -not [System.IO.File]::Exists($_FILE) ) {
  log "Missing state file... Cancle"
  pause
  Exit 1
}

log "Load list of Last Job States"
$STATES = Get-Content $_FILE | ConvertFrom-Json

log "Enable all needed Jobs"
$JOBS = Get-VBRJob -Name ($STATES|?{-not $_.Proxy -and $_.IsScheduleEnabled}).Name
if(-not $DryRun) { $JOBS | Enable-VBRJob | Out-Null }

log "Retry Failed Backup jobs" 
if(-not $DryRun) { $JOBS | ?{ $_.GetLastResult() -eq "Failed" } | Start-VBRJob -RunAsync -RetryBackup }

Remove-Item -Path $_FILE

log "Finish"
pause 

Nice work Martin! Thanks for sharing; I came across this after working on a similar project and noticed the comments suggesting this may have been deprecated in recent versions. Just figured I’d add this if it helped anyone (note: one main difference is my script essentially waits (for a variable amount of minutes) for any running jobs to finish before continuing. It was also designed for SCCM integration with purpose of automating windows updates on all servers but they had concerns about updates forcing a reboot during active jobs running in VBR or if proxies were active related to a VBR job:

https://github.com/lostSail0r/sccm-veeam-proxy-patching
NOTE: Last validated on V12.3.2.x - Unclear if working on V13 Windows, highly unlikely to work on VSA at this time

It worked in that context, but open to fedback on if it can easily be re-purposed for a non SCCM integration to better match the post’s goal.

Thanks (I may borrow some of the fancier aspects of your script if still working on v12/13into mine later if thats kosher),

CG

Hi ​@Martin Weber thanks for sharing.