{"id":700,"date":"2010-07-12T11:58:28","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T16:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/running-veeam-jobs\/"},"modified":"2010-07-12T11:58:28","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T16:58:28","slug":"running-veeam-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/powershell-v2-0\/700\/running-veeam-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Running Veeam Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m still fighting hardware issues with my ESX box (among other things) but I wanted to jot down some more notes on my experiences with <a title=\"learn more about PowerCLI\" href=\"http:\/\/communities.vmware.com\/community\/vmtn\/vsphere\/automationtools\/powercli\" target=\"_blank\">PowerCLI<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veeam.com\/vmware-esx-backup.html\" target=\"_blank\">Veeam<\/a> backup cmdlets. <a href=\"http:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/vmware-backup-with-powercli-and-veeam\/\" target=\"_blank\">Last week<\/a> I wrote about how I created multiple backup jobs with a one line PowerShell expression.&#160; After the jobs were created I needed to run them. 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