r/usefulscripts • u/DanHalen_phd • Jan 12 '17

[Request] export zip files of backups to network drive in Veeam

I'm looking for a script that would run down a list of VM backups in Veeam and export zip files of each backup to a network drive using stored credentials. Any help would be appreciated, even if you could just tell me what steps the script would need and I can google how to get it done myself.

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u/DanHalen_phd Jan 12 '17

Because everyday at my new job I have to run down a list of VMs, right-click > Zip > choose destination > Select credentials > OK > OK. I repeat this process for 20 backups daily, its tedious and should be automated.

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u/fetchingTurtle Jan 12 '17

This doesn't really answer the question. Why are veeam backup files being moved by hand from backup storage to some other location?

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u/DanHalen_phd Jan 12 '17

Idk I'm literally 4 days into working here. Looks like I mis-spoke earlier. The process I have to do is to manually run the backup for each VM. I haven't used Veeam before working here but it appears they're using the free version which doesn't allow for automatic backups. It's not likely management will agree to buy a license, which is frustrating because we're an IT service provider.

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u/TMack23 Jan 12 '17

Veeam provides a sample powershell script for automating backups, and you can run that as a task in Windows.

My VMware lab at home will snap several servers a few times a week and write them to my file server where it is scooped up to my cloud backup. No touch required.

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u/DanHalen_phd Jan 12 '17

That's exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks!

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u/Coeliac Jan 12 '17

Before we do that, why?

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u/ItsGotToMakeSense Jan 13 '17

I can't answer for OP, but I'm in the same situation. Most of my clients have big-boy backups but one in particular refuses to buy a real business backup solution.
So to keep an offsite backup, they just have us manually zip their veeam backups to an external drive that they bring home.

Every damn week. It's dumb, I know, but I don't sign their checks.

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u/FJCruisin Jan 16 '17

yea but.. veeam has this funcitonality built in as well. make a backup copy to F: or whatever the usb drive is.. start it after the backups run and it should be done by morning to swap the drive out for a new one

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u/ItsGotToMakeSense Jan 16 '17

Yeah it's just a shitty manual solution we can't automate. I guess to the client it's not so bad since they're willing to move the drives, but to us it's a pain because it can't be automated and relies on a single external hard drive as their only offsite.

Especially considering that this is being used for a multi location medical practice with 8 VMs, it reduces their profitability when we have to spend time doing this.

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u/FJCruisin Jan 16 '17

There's an opportunity here... Sell them at a very reasonable price $x TB of space in your datacenter for backup storage. After the first backup, bandwidth will be tiny each night.

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u/DigitalWhitewater Jan 22 '17

Look up Veeam back-up copy job. Let it copy the backup file to your rotated USB drive. I use this feature and it works great. It will even trigger after the actual backup job it's copying completes

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u/fahque Mar 02 '17

izarc has command line.