Tag: SAN

In the case you want to use the Storage Snapshot feature with Veeam Backup, the feature will be enabled for all the Backup jobs and will be the default option to process a backup job.

We only want to enable the feature for certain jobs with a special name convention like SAN-BackupJob-01. So I created a small Powershell script to disable this feature for all the jobs without the special name convention.

The Powershell script below will return all the jobs where the job name not match the “SAN” search string. The next step is to disable the “Use storage snapshots” feature for the jobs.

Script: Disable-SanIntegrationOptions.ps1:

if((Get-PSSnapin -Name VeeamPSSnapIn -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -eq $null){
    Add-PSSnapin "VeeamPSSnapIn"
}

foreach($vbrjob in (get-vbrjob | ?{$_.Name -notmatch "SAN"})){
    Write-Output "Changing job: $($vbrjob.name).."
    $SanIntegrataionOptions = $vbrjob.GetOptions()
    $SanIntegrataionOptions.SanIntegrationOptions.UseSanSnapshots = $false

    $vbrjob.SetOptions($SanIntegrataionOptions)
}

From now on only the jobs that need the SAN Snapshot feature, can utilise this feature and all the other jobs will use the default processing mode.