Hi,
Thanks for the information, unfortunate I were not able to solve it based on the link. I have on the other hand created a workaround that can be used.
After creating the scripts, it is possible to import backup jobs to computers that show up in the Get-BEAgentServer cmdlet. It does not include the selection details, so if some drives (like D) is excluded, this has to be changed after the import.
For backup jobs that backup VMware ESXi servers it is a different story as they don't show up in the Get-BEAgentServer cmdlet.
1) First create a backup definition for the VMware server in GUI, the storage device and retention policy for the Full backup job will have to be set correctly. The incremental job should be removed from the backup definition.
2) Modify the script to take backup definition as the input instead of AgentServer.
Change
[BackupExec.Management.CLI.BEAgentServer]
$AgentServer,
With
[BackupExec.Management.CLI.BEBackupDefinition]
$BackupDefinition,
3)
Change
New-BEBackupDefinition -BackupJobDefault BackupToDisk -WithInitialFullBackupOnly @backupDefinitionParameters
To
Set-BEBackupDefinition @backupDefinitionParameters
4)
Change
$backupTaskParameters =`
To
$backupTaskParameters = $PSBoundParameters
$backupTaskParameters +=`
In all locations.
5) There will be necessary to change the script flow since the "ForEach-object" can fail after New-BackupDefinition is change dto Set-BEBackupDefinition.
6) Now it is possible to run the script with the command.
$bdef = Get-BEBackupDefinition -Name "servername*"
.\Script.ps1 -BackupDefinition $bdef | Save-BEBackupDefinition
This is fairly cumbersome and will in most cases not be worth the effort, but since I needed consistent results regardless of who performs the configuration it is worth it.
Still hoping for an improved version
Fred
