Copy jobs from one BE server to another

[Jouni_Heiskanen]

Does any know how to copy jobs from BE 2012 to another BE 2012 server?

I guess Symantec has removed this feature on BE 2012. I wonder is it possible to done through BEMCLI?

[RahulG]

Yes. You can create using command line applet.

Please refer pg. 202 of http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH63645 - Symantec Backup Exec (TM) for Windows Servers Command Line Applet - (English)

[pkh]

BEMCMD is for BE 2010 and below.  The user is using BE 2012 which uses BEMCLI.

[pkh]

It is not very difficult to define jobs in BE 2012.  It is probably faster to define the job on the new server using the GUI.

You can use BEMCLI to copy a job definition 

Get-BEBackupDefinition

and create a job

New-BEBackupDefinition

but it is probably faster using the GUI

I don't recall a way to copy jobs using the CLI for previous versions of BE.

[Jouni_Heiskanen]

If you've tens of jobs or maybe a hundred job, I prefer not using GUI. Creating jogs using GUI would take rather long time and another thing that you would make easily mistakes.

Can I get all of the jobs' definitions from command:

Get-BEBackupDefinition

[pkh]

yes.

[Russell_Norton]

There is a function in the module to export backup definitions to a ps1 file that can be run on another server

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH184683

Export a single backup definition:

Get-BEBackupDefinition –name <definition name> |  Export-BEBackupDefinition > c:\<somename>.ps1

To export all definitions to a separate ps1 file:

 $jobs = Get-BEBackupDefinition
 foreach ($job in $jobs)
 {
                 $defname = $job.name
                 $job | Export-BEBackupDefinition > c:\$defname.ps1
               
 }

Import the backup definition:
<exported-bebackupdefinition.ps1> -agentserver <server to apply too> | save-BEBackupdefinition

NOTE:
Selection list are not exported and will need to be modified after import if needed

being as this is a ps1 file you could make changes to the script before importing.

[BE_KirkFreiheit]

To expand on Russell's post: the script generated by Export-BEBackupDefinition has all of the selection parameters that New-BEBackupDefinition has:

-FileSystemSelection

-SqlDatabaseSelection

etc.

So...if you just wanted to back up the D: drive with your new jobs, you could do this:

<exported-bebackupdefinition.ps1> -agentserver <server to apply too> -FileSystemSelection D: | save-BEBackupdefinition

-Kirk out.