Automating Backup Cancellation From Command Line

This script allows you to mass cancel active backup jobs from command line of vSphere Data Protection Appliance.

#!/bin/bash
# This script cancels all active backup jobs from the command line
value=$(mccli activity show --active | cut -c1-16 | sed -e '1,3d')
if [ -z "$value" ]
then
echo "No active job to cancel"
else
for p in $value
do
mccli activity cancel --id=$p
done
fi

If you would like to cancel a set of backup jobs, like 13 jobs out of 20 running jobs, then you need to add those Job ID's to a file and then run the script to pull inputs from that file

#!/bin/bash
# This script cancels jobs from IDs provided in the id.txt file
while read p; do
mccli activity cancel --id=$p
done <id.txt

This script can be modified for other backup states like waiting-client. Just Grep, and cut, and remove the first three rows and feed the job ID's to a loop.

A much more interactive script to cancel "Active" "Waiting-Queued" and "Waiting-Client" jobs.

#!/bin/bash
# This block is for help parameters.
usage()
{
cat << EOF

Below are the available fields

OPTIONS:
   -h      Help
   -a      Active Job
   -w      Waiting Job
EOF
}
# This block saves status of active/waiting-client/waiting-queued backups
value=$(mccli activity show --active | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | sed -e '1,3d')
value_client=$(mccli activity show | grep -i "Waiting-Client" | cut -d ' ' -f 1)
value_queued=$(mccli activity show | grep -i "Waiting-Queued" | cut -d ' ' -f 1)

# This block does a flag input
while getopts "haw" option
do
        case $option in
                a)

        if [ -z $value ]
        then
                printf "No active jobs to cancel\n"
        else

                printf "Cancelling active jobs\n"
                for i in $value
                do
                mccli activity cancel --id=$i
                done

        fi
                ;;
                w)
                if [ -z $value_client ]
                then
                        echo $value_client
                        printf "No jobs in waiting client state\n"
                else
                        printf "Cancelling waiting clients\n"
                        for i in $value_client
                        do
                                mccli activity cancel --id=$i
                        done
                fi
                if [ -z $value_queued ]
                then
                        printf "No jobs in waiting queued state\n"
                else
                        printf "Cancelling queued clients\n"
                        for i in $value_queued
                        do
                                mccli activity cancel --id=$i
                        done
                fi
                ;;
h)
usage
;;
?)
printf "type -h for list\n"
;;
esac
done

Chmod a+x to the file for execute. Hope this helps!