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Ercksen
Ercksen

Reputation: 669

PowerShell Job.Progress contains multiple objects

I am currently developing a backup manager for Hyper-V using PowerShell.

I ran into problems when starting an export job like this:

$job = (export-vm -name "Windows 10" -path F:\VM_Backup\ -asjob)

Now when querying the progress of the job I realized that two objects are inside my Progress property:

> $job.progress

ActivityId        : 0
ParentActivityId  : -1
Activity          : Export wird ausgeführt
StatusDescription : Gelöscht
CurrentOperation  :
PercentComplete   : 1
SecondsRemaining  : -1
RecordType        : Processing

ActivityId        : 0
ParentActivityId  : -1
Activity          : Export wird ausgeführt
StatusDescription : Gelöscht
CurrentOperation  :
PercentComplete   : 37
SecondsRemaining  : -1
RecordType        : Processing

While the second progress update makes real progress (increasing percentage), the first one always stays like above.

I have never seen this behavior before and that really doesn't make any sense to me. How do I (programmatically) select the "right" job?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 105

Answers (1)

mklement0
mklement0

Reputation: 439767

By design, the .Progress property collects all progress messages written by the job - it doesn't just reflect the latest status.

The most recently written message is the last one added to the .Progress collection, so you can use index [-1] to retrieve it.

$job.Progress[-1]

Note: For Start-Job-created jobs, you must access the .Progress property on the (one and only) child job instead: $job.ChildJobs[0].Progress[-1] - see about_Job_Details.

Upvotes: 1

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