PowerShell Script: Check Exchange Mailbox Database Last Backup Time

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   abhishek 21 Oct 2015 Reply

   Hello Paul

   This is Abhishek from New Delhi/ India. Your Script works great in our envt. Thanks for this wonderful script

   I am newbie to Powershell, so don’t know much about it, In the Database Backup Alert Email, can you also advise me where to add the field of Last Incremental Backup, Size of databases, space remaining on the drives and threshold of 1 week alert .

   Thanks

   Thanks

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      Paul Cunningham 21 Oct 2015 Reply

      I recommend you look at this script instead:
      https://www.practical365.com/set-automated-exchange-2010-database-backup-alert-email/

      If it doesn’t do exactly what you need then it is quite simple to modify it.

2. 

   Hesta 21 Apr 2015 Reply

   Hi Paul,

   How to check last backup per user mailbox not database mailbox ? could this script can do that ?

   Thank you

   1. 

      Paul Cunningham 21 Apr 2015 Reply

      I don’t know what you mean by that. A database is a database.

      What do “user mailbox” and “database mailbox” mean to you?

      1. 

         Hesta 21 Apr 2015 Reply

         Hi Paul,

         I mean how to see the last backup per user mailbox with use this script. it is posibble ?

         Thank You

         1. 

            Paul Cunningham 21 Apr 2015 Reply

            Mailboxes are hosted in databases. Databases are backed up. This script reports on the backup times for databases.

            If you want to know which database a mailbox is located in you can run Get-Mailbox to see that information.

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4. 

   Robert 22 Mar 2014 Reply

   This was helpful for me… I wanted the script to run, on a click, and wait for me to read the results before closing…

   Open notepad, paste the code below in…
   Save as something nifty like: “Check Exchange Last Backup.PS1”
   ——————————————————————————————-

   add-pssnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.SnapIn
   $server = $env:computername

   $now = [DateTime]::Now

   “Server: ” + $server
   “Current time: ” + $now

   $db = get-MailboxDatabase -server $server -status
   foreach ($objItem in $db)
   {
   $lastfull = $objItem.lastfullbackup
   if (!$lastfull)
   {
   $fullago = “n/a”
   }
   else
   {
   $fullago = $now – $lastfull
   $fullago = $fullago.TotalHours
   $fullago = “{0:N0}” -f $fullago
   }

   $lastinc = $objItem.lastincrementalbackup
   if (!$lastinc)
   {
   $incago = “n/a”
   }
   else
   {
   $incago = $now – $lastinc
   $incago = $incago.TotalHours
   $incago = “{0:N0}” -f $incago
   }

   $returnedObj = new-object PSObject
   $returnedObj | add-member NoteProperty -name “Database” -value $objItem.Name
   $returnedObj | add-member NoteProperty -name “Last Full (hrs ago)” -value $fullago
   $returnedObj | Add-Member NoteProperty -name “Last Inc (hrs ago)” -value $incago
   $returnedObj
   }

   Write-Host “Press any key to continue …”

   $x = $host.UI.RawUI.ReadKey(“NoEcho,IncludeKeyDown”)

   1. 

      Jeff 24 Apr 2014 Reply

      Robert, log on to http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/ and enrol/watch the course ‘Getting Started with PowerShell 3.0 Jump Start’. In that you will learn why double-clicking on a .PS1 file won’t work (and why this is actually a GOOD thing!)

      You’ll probably have a bit of a laugh here and there too.

      PS – It’s free!

5. 

   simon hawkes 12 Aug 2013 Reply

   Hi Paul

   Great script. As I am just learning PowerShell I only get about 70% of the script but it works fine on our Exchange 2007 box so thanks for that. One thing I have been trying is to output the results to a file so the Exchange Team can check the databases are being backed up. I have tried using a pipe to Out-file followed by the path to the text file but I end up with a text file with no data in it  if you could possibly advise how to output to a file it would be very much appreciated

   Thanks in advance

   Simon

   1. 

      Paul Cunningham 13 Aug 2013 Reply

      You could just send them an automated email with this script:
      https://www.practical365.com/set-automated-exchange-2010-database-backup-alert-email/

      1. 

         Simon Hawkes 13 Aug 2013 Reply

         Thanks Paul

         very funky 🙂

6. 

   MADSolutions 29 Jul 2011 Reply

   Great script! Simplicity is always a key feature!

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