Quota error check

Question

I'm copying a large number of folders from one server to another. Unfortunately the destination server has  the disk and the volume different (so I can't make a mirror copy with the same path..) With a little patience I can create the list of powershell commands to create the quotas on the destination server

New-FsrmQuota -Path "D:\Vol01\folder1" -Size2GB -Template "QMPA"

Using New-FsrmQuota  by "running" from  powershell ISE  I cannot clearly see/verify the errors (example: the folder does not exist or the path does not exist) especially if the quotas to set are a large number (as 800) 

I was wondering if there is a way with powershell to  verify errors and have a list of unexecuted quotas, the type of error and the corresponding powershell command.

Answer 1

I am not an expert, so I was thinking to do someting like that

$Quotas = @( "New-FsrmQuota -Path "D:\Vol01\folder1" -Size2GB -Template "QMPA" , "New-FsrmQuota -Path "D:\Vol02\folder2" -Size2GB -Template "QMPA" , "New-FsrmQuota -Path "D:\Vol03\folder3" -Size3GB -Template "QMPA" , "New-FsrmQuota -Path "D:\Vol03\folder4" -Size1GB -Template "QMPA" )

foreach($Quota in $Quotas){
    New-FsrmQuota = $Quota
}

but I don't know how to add a check to verify what are the unexecuted quotas, (the type of error and the corresponding folder not setup)

Answer 2

Hi Marc_live,

PowerShell will throw an exception by default when a command fails to run. If you want to handle the exceptions you can use the try/catch blocks.

about Try Catch Finally - PowerShell | Microsoft Learn

Answer 3

Thank you Ian_Xue,

you are perfectly right (as usual ), powershell by default shows errors ....but in my case as I have to setup often about 500/700 entries won't be easy after powershell does the job check in the long list all errors and every time I have the feeling I missed someone.

Will be not bad have a list of all errors, because in that way it will be easier for me to check the errors (error example below).

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> New-FsrmQuota -Path "M:\Vol09\SALES" -Size 1GB

New-FsrmQuota : 0x80045303, The specified object already exists.

At line:1 char:1

+ New-FsrmQuota -Path "M:\Vol09\SALES" -Size 1GB

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo          : ResourceExists: (MSFT_FSRMQuota:Root/Microsoft/.../MSFT_FSRMQuota) [New-FsrmQuota], CimException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : MI RESULT 11,New-FsrmQuota

Answer 4

I'm not an expert so I have done just a test to see what I was able to do, but I think "try / catch" statement won't help me.

Running the script below the check stop at the first error stating a generic message: "The specified object already exists"

Maybe I can solve using  a ultiple Catch Blocks but it will be very hard do that if the commands to test are a very large number.

---

# Define the log file path
$LogFile = "C:\temp\test\AppLog.txt"

# Wrap commands in a try-catch block
Try {

    # PowerShell command that might generate an error
New-FsrmQuota -Path "D:\Vol01\folder1" -Size2GB -Template "QMPA -ErrorAction Stop
New-FsrmQuota -Path "D:\Vol02\folder2" -Size2GB -Template "QMPA -ErrorAction Stop
New-FsrmQuota -Path "D:\Vol03\folder3" -Size3GB -Template "QMPA -ErrorAction Stop
New-FsrmQuota -Path "D:\Vol03\folder4" -Size1GB -Template "QMPA -ErrorAction Stop

} Catch {

    # Log the error message to the log file
    Add-Content -Path $LogFile -Value $("[" + (Get-Date) + "] " + $_.Exception.Message)
}
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As in my case as I have to setup often about 500/700 entries will be not bad have a list of all detailed errors (instead to check them in the  powershell  outcome   ). This will help me to check the errors ( to avoid I miss someone ).

Answer 5

Hi Marc_live,

Since you have 500/700 entries, you may consider saving the path and size of each one in a csv file. Say the CSV file has the column headers path and size,

"path","size"

"D:\Vol01\folder1","2GB"
"D:\Vol01\folder2","2GB"
"D:\Vol01\folder3","3GB"
"D:\Vol01\folder4","1GB"

the script can be like this.

$entries = "C:\entries.csv"

Import-CSV -Path $entries | foreach-object {

    Try {      

        # PowerShell command that might generate an error

        New-FsrmQuota -Path $_.path -Size $_.size -Template "QMPA" -ErrorAction Stop  
    } 

    Catch {      

        # Log the error message to the log file     

        Add-Content -Path $LogFile -Value $("[" + (Get-Date) + "] " + $_.Exception.Message) 

    }

}