Tracking Azure Backup Job Status with CLI

Question

What is the process for creating a CLI script to initiate an Azure virtual machine backup, monitor the backup status every five minutes, and trigger an email notification upon job completion?

Answer 1

You could do something similar to this with PowerShell."

# Authenticate to Azure
Connect-AzAccount

# Set Variables
$resourceGroupName = "resourceGroup"
$vaultName = "vaultName"
$vmName = "pstestv2vm1"
$emailFrom = "backup@contoso.com"
$emailTo = "admin@contoso.com"
$emailSubject = "VM Backup Job Completed"
$emailBody = "The VM backup job for $vmName is complete."

# Get Recovery Services Vault and Backup Item
$vault = Get-AzRecoveryServicesVault -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupName -Name $vaultName
$NamedContainer = Get-AzRecoveryServicesBackupContainer -ContainerType AzureVM -FriendlyName $vmName -VaultId $vault.ID
$Item = Get-AzRecoveryServicesBackupItem -Container $NamedContainer -WorkloadType AzureVM -VaultId $vault.ID

# Initiate Backup
$Job = Backup-AzRecoveryServicesBackupItem -Item $Item -VaultId $vault.ID -ExpiryDateTimeUTC (Get-Date).ToUniversalTime().AddDays(60)
$Job

# Monitor Backup Status
do {
    $jobStatus = Get-AzRecoveryServicesBackupJob -VaultId $vault.ID -Job $Job
    Start-Sleep -Seconds 300
} until ($jobStatus.Status -eq "Completed")

# Trigger Email Notification
Send-MailMessage -From $emailFrom -To $emailTo -Subject $emailSubject -Body $emailBody

Reference: Example 1: Start a backup for a Backup item