I have some VMs being backed up with Recovery Services Vault. I would like to see more detailed information of when a snapshot started and completed, and also the transfer to vault start and stop times.
Hello @MarkAllison,
Thank you for reaching out to the Microsoft Q&A platform. Happy to answer your question.
As a backup admin, you can use Backup center as a single pane of glass to monitor your jobs and backup inventory on a day-to-day basis. For details refer to backup-center-monitor-operate
You can see a job start and stop time, but we don't have snapshot start/end time columns in the backup jobs metrics.
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Thanks for the response, so it's not possible to obtain from the API or PowerShell? I did some digging in the PowerShell cmdlets and found this:
Get-AzRecoveryServicesBackupItem
This returns a property called LatestRecoveryPoint. When looking at this time, it is much before the backup completion time, so I am assuming this is the completion time of the snapshot. Would you agree? This is the info I'm looking for.
Hello @MarkAllison,
I too have looked up at Azure PowerShell as well as azure resource graph explorer, didn't find anything on snapshot time. Get-AzRecoveryServicesBackupRecoveryPoint gives the details of last recovery point successful backups.
LatestRecoveryPoint is the RP from last successful backup.
Get-AzRecoveryServicesBackupJob gives some details like if a job is in progress and when it started etc., but we don't have a property for snapshot time. Adding the document link for your reference.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/az.recoveryservices/get-azrecoveryservicesbackupjob?view=azps-7.5.0#code-try-1
I tried below as well
$vault = Get-AzRecoveryServicesVault -ResourceGroupName "Management_Migration-Resources" -Name "MM-RecoveryServicesVault"
$startDate = (Get-Date).AddDays(-7)
$endDate = Get-Date
$Container = Get-AzRecoveryServicesBackupContainer -ContainerType AzureVM -Status Registered -FriendlyName "APP-BCKND-VM" -VaultId $vault.ID
$BackupItem = Get-AzRecoveryServicesBackupItem -Container $Container -WorkloadType AzureVM -VaultId $vault.ID
$rp = Get-AzRecoveryServicesBackupRecoveryPoint -Item $backupItem -StartDate $startdate.ToUniversalTime() -EndDate $enddate.ToUniversalTime() -VaultId $vault.ID
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