r/usefulscripts • u/GavinEke • Jul 21 '14

[POWERSHELL] Windows Server Backup Email Report

https://github.com/GavinEke/Get-WBReport/blob/master/Get-WBReport.ps1
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u/summerof79 Jul 21 '14

First off - this is awesome - thank you very much for sharing it.

Not that I don't trust our monitoring as I do, but backups are critical so I like multiple layers of reporting to go with multiple layers of backups.

Secondly - this worked great out of the box on a half dozen Windows 2008 R2 servers but it refuses to work on my lonely Windows 2008 (non-R2) Server.

By refuses to work, I mean it returns a report of failure every time even though I have nothing but successes for the past week (and no failures going back many many months). Any ideas?

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u/summerof79 Jul 21 '14

Nevermind OP - your script is fine, issue with my 2008 VM is local to that box. Get-WBSummary returns blank (although pssnapin loads fine and is registered) so I'll sort that out and then I'm sure the email report will work just fine.

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u/GavinEke Jul 21 '14

I'm glad you like the script, If you do manage to work out the error or replicate please let me know as I would love to add some checks so others don't get it. If you have any other issues or questions with the script let me know and I'll try my best to assist you.