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Powershell Report script to alert when total backup job size (storage usage) is over a threshold - so you can monitor it and or split jobs into nice chunks if you so desire.
#alert at or over this amount
$alertOverGB = 100;
#your email settings
$emailSettings = @{
To = 'you@example.local'
From = 'backupreports@example.local'
Smtpserver = 'smtp.example.local'
Subject = "{{VBRServer}} jobs over $($alertOverGB)GB"
}
#measure all the jobs and their sizes
$vbrAllJobSizes = Get-VBRBackup | Select @{N="Job";E={$_.Name}}, @{N="Usage";E={[math]::Round(($_.GetAllStorages().Stats.BackupSize | Measure-Object -Sum).Sum/1GB,1)}}
#filter and sort where over our threshold
$vbrJobsInAlert = $vbrAllJobSizes | where {$_.Usage -gt $alertOverGB} | Sort-Object -Property Usage -Descending
# if results over threshold, send email
if ($vbrJobsInAlert.count -ne 0) {
#base email theme
$emailTemplate = @"
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<style>
@media only screen and (max-width: 620px) {
table.body h1 {
font-size: 28px !important;
margin-bottom: 10px !important;
}
table.body p,
table.body ul,
table.body ol,
table.body td,
table.body span,
table.body a {
font-size: 16px !important;
}
table.body .wrapper,
table.body .article {
padding: 10px !important;
}
table.body .content {
padding: 0 !important;
}
table.body .container {
padding: 0 !important;
width: 100% !important;
}
table.body .main {
border-left-width: 0 !important;
border-radius: 0 !important;
border-right-width: 0 !important;
}
}
@media all {
.apple-link a {
color: inherit !important;
font-family: inherit !important;
font-size: inherit !important;
font-weight: inherit !important;
line-height: inherit !important;
text-decoration: none !important;
}
#MessageViewBody a {
color: inherit;
text-decoration: none;
font-size: inherit;
font-family: inherit;
font-weight: inherit;
line-height: inherit;
}
}
</style>
</head>
<body style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: sans-serif; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0; padding: 0; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">
<span class="preheader" style="color: transparent; display: none; height: 0; max-height: 0; max-width: 0; opacity: 0; overflow: hidden; mso-hide: all; visibility: hidden; width: 0;">{{VBRServer}} jobs have been processed, some are over threshold of {{Threshold}}GB.</span>
<table role="presentation" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="body" style="border-collapse: separate; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; background-color: #f6f6f6; width: 100%;" width="100%" bgcolor="#f6f6f6">
<tr>
<td style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: top;" valign="top">&nbsp;</td>
<td class="container" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: top; display: block; max-width: 580px; padding: 10px; width: 580px; margin: 0 auto;" width="580" valign="top">
<div class="content" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: 0 auto; max-width: 580px; padding: 10px;">
<!-- container -->
<table role="presentation" class="main" style="border-collapse: separate; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; background: #ffffff; border-radius: 3px; width: 100%;" width="100%">
<!-- main-->
<tr>
<td class="wrapper" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: top; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 20px;" valign="top">
<table role="presentation" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: separate; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; width: 100%;" width="100%">
<tr>
<td style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: top;" valign="top">
<p style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 15px;"><h2>{{Title}}</h2></p>
<p style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 15px;">Backup jobs have been processed, below are the jobs that meet your threshold of {{Threshold}}GB.</p>
<table role="presentation" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="btn btn-primary" style="border-collapse: separate; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; box-sizing: border-box; width: 100%;" width="100%">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td align="left" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 15px;" valign="top">
<table role="presentation" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="10" style="border-collapse: separate; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; width: auto;">
<thead>
<tr><th cellpadding="10" style="text-align: left;" align="left">Job</th>
<th cellpadding="10" style="text-align: left;" align="left">Size</th></tr>
<thead>
<tbody>
{{DataRows}}
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 15px;">Over to you!</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<!-- end main -->
</table>
<!-- end container -->
<!-- footer -->
<div class="footer" style="clear: both; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 100%;">
<table role="presentation" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: separate; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; width: 100%;" width="100%">
<tr>
<td class="content-block" style="font-family: sans-serif; vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;" valign="top" align="center">
<span class="apple-link" style="color: #999999; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;">Generated {{GeneratedOn}} for {{VBRServer}}</span>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
<!-- end footer -->
</div>
</td>
<td style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: top;" valign="top">&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
"@
#this is used as the template for the jobs over threshold in the data table
$rowTemplate = @"
<tr>
<td cellpadding="10" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: top;" valign="top" align="left" width="75%">{{JobName}}</td>
<td cellpadding="10" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: top;" valign="top" align="left" width="25%">{{JobUsage}}GB</td>
</tr>
"@
#append to this and we will insert into email soon
$alertRows = ""
foreach ($jobAlerts in $vbrJobsInAlert)
{
$row = $rowTemplate
$row = $row.Replace("{{JobName}}", $jobAlerts.Job)
$row = $row.Replace("{{JobUsage}}", $jobAlerts.Usage)
$alertRows += $row
}
#put server details in of current backup server
$vbrSession = Get-VBRServerSession
#show server detail in subject
$emailSettings.Subject = $emailSettings.Subject.Replace("{{VBRServer}}", $vbrSession.Server)
#replace vars from template with data
$emailTemplate = $emailTemplate.Replace("{{Title}}", $emailSettings.Subject)
$emailTemplate = $emailTemplate.Replace("{{Threshold}}", $alertOverGB)
$emailTemplate = $emailTemplate.Replace("{{GeneratedOn}}", $(Get-Date -Format "dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm"))
$emailTemplate = $emailTemplate.Replace("{{DataRows}}", $alertRows)
$emailTemplate = $emailTemplate.Replace("{{VBRServer}}", $vbrSession.Server)
# send email
Send-MailMessage @emailSettings -Body $emailTemplate -BodyAsHtml
}
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