Diagnose Veeam schedules; show "Not scheduled" for no next run

Veeam jobs on a VBR 13 server show no next run on the dashboard. The
diagnostics script gains a section dumping each job's schedule
properties (ScheduleOptions, GetScheduleOptions(),
Get-VBRJobScheduleOptions) and the current culture, to find where VBR 13
keeps the next run.

The dashboard showed "Never" for a missing next run, which reads as
"this job will never run"; it now says "Not scheduled" (e.g. immediate
mode copy jobs).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
This commit is contained in:
2026-10-08 09:42:01 -06:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5.5
parent 555e928e01
commit 51b97c4556
3 changed files with 45 additions and 10 deletions
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
2. sessions whose JobId matches no job (the runs that are going missing)
3. for jobs with no matching sessions, their type/link-related properties and methods
4. what other job cmdlets (e.g. Get-VBRBackupCopyJob) return
5. each job's schedule properties, which the collector reads for the next run
Nothing is changed in Veeam or the dashboard. Output is also saved to a text file.
.EXAMPLE
@@ -42,14 +43,14 @@ function Format-Value($Value) {
# Property and method names matching $LinkPattern, with property values. Every read is guarded:
# some Veeam properties throw when accessed.
function Show-LinkMembers($Object) {
foreach ($p in $Object.PSObject.Properties | Where-Object { $_.Name -match $LinkPattern }) {
function Show-LinkMembers($Object, [string]$Pattern = $LinkPattern, [string]$Indent = ' ') {
foreach ($p in $Object.PSObject.Properties | Where-Object { $_.Name -match $Pattern }) {
$value = try { Format-Value $p.Value } catch { "<error: $($_.Exception.Message)>" }
' {0} = {1}' -f $p.Name, $value
'{0}{1} = {2}' -f $Indent, $p.Name, $value
}
$methods = @($Object | Get-Member -MemberType Methods -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue |
Where-Object { $_.Name -match $LinkPattern } | ForEach-Object Name)
if ($methods) { ' methods: ' + ($methods -join ', ') }
Where-Object { $_.Name -match $Pattern } | ForEach-Object Name)
if ($methods) { $Indent + 'methods: ' + ($methods -join ', ') }
}
function Get-Prop($Object, [string]$Name) {
@@ -147,6 +148,39 @@ $report = & {
" ${cmd}: error: $($_.Exception.Message)"
}
}
''
# The collector uses IsScheduleEnabled and ScheduleOptions.NextRun; show what else is there in
# case this version keeps the next run somewhere different
"== 5. Schedules (culture: $([Globalization.CultureInfo]::CurrentCulture.Name))"
$SchedulePattern = 'Schedul|Next|Latest|Run|Enabled|Daily|Periodic|Monthly|Continuous|After|Option'
foreach ($j in $jobs) {
" $($j.Name) [$(Get-Prop $j 'JobType')]"
Show-LinkMembers $j $SchedulePattern ' '
foreach ($source in 'ScheduleOptions', 'GetScheduleOptions()', 'Get-VBRJobScheduleOptions') {
try {
$opts = switch ($source) {
'ScheduleOptions' { $j.ScheduleOptions }
'GetScheduleOptions()' { $j.GetScheduleOptions() }
'Get-VBRJobScheduleOptions' { Get-VBRJobScheduleOptions -Job $j -WarningAction SilentlyContinue }
}
if ($null -eq $opts) { " ${source}: <null>"; continue }
" ${source} ($($opts.GetType().FullName)):"
foreach ($p in $opts.PSObject.Properties) {
$value = try { $p.Value } catch { "<error: $($_.Exception.Message)>" }
$type = if ($null -eq $value) { 'null' } else { $value.GetType().Name }
if ($value -is [string] -or $value -is [ValueType] -or $null -eq $value) {
' {0} ({1}) = {2}' -f $p.Name, $type, (Format-Value $value)
} else {
' {0} ({1})' -f $p.Name, $type
}
}
} catch {
" ${source}: not available: $($_.Exception.Message)"
}
}
''
}
} | Out-String -Width 300
$report