PowerShell - Check Backups

I wrote this script a while ago and have been meaning to publish it for others to use. It's pretty straight forward, just put in a Server\Instance and it will use SMO to check the Agent Job status, let you know if the Backup Job is running, or what the last outcome was. Then it queries the instance to see the last backup dates. We want daily backups, so we are interested in the hours since last backup occurred, so that is the final column for easy reference. The only thing you will need to tweak is the function that gets the Agent Job info. We have a specific naming convention that we use for all our backup jobs, if you do the same, you will need to edit the "WHERE" clause to meet your naming needs...perhaps simply $._Name -match "Backup" will work for you.

$LookupServer = New-Object -TypeName Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server -ArgumentList localhost

<###############################################
 ## VARIABLES TO ENTER:                       ##
 ## LooupServer: Server\Instance to check  ##
 ###############################################>
$LookupServer = "localhost\DEV"

<###################################
 ## FUNCTION TO CHECK JOB STATUS  ##
 ###################################>
Function Get-SQLJobStatus
{
    param ([string]$server)
    # Load SMO assembly, and if we're running SQL 2008 DLLs load the SMOExtended and SQLWMIManagement libraries
    [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName('Microsoft.SqlServer.SMO') | out-null

    # Create object to connect to SQL Instance
    $srv = New-Object "Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server" $server

    # used to allow piping of more than one job name to function
    $srv.JobServer.Jobs | where {$_.Name -match "Backup" -and $_.Name -notmatch "LOG" -and $_.Name -notmatch "System" -and $_.IsEnabled -eq "True" -and $_.Name -notmatch "Optimizations" -and $_.Name -notmatch "History" -and $_.HasSchedule -eq "True"} | Select Name, CurrentRunStatus, LastRunOutcome,LastRunDate | Out-GridView
 Remove-Variable srv
 Remove-Variable server
}

<#############################################
 ## FUNCTION TO GET SERVER VERSION/EDITION  ##
 #############################################>
Function Get-SQLServerVersion
{
    param ([string]$server)
    [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName('Microsoft.SqlServer.SMO') | out-null

    # Create object to connect to SQL Instance
    $srv = New-Object "Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server" $server

 $EditionName = $srv.Edition
 ##$srv.Version.Major
 ##$srv.VersionMinor
 switch ($srv.Version.Major) 
    { 
        8 {$VersionName = "2000"} 
        9 {$VersionName = "2005"} 
        10 {$VersionName = "2008"} 
        11 {$VersionName = "2012"} 
        default {$VersionName = "The version could not be determined."}
    }
 if ($srv.Version.Major -eq "10")
 {
  if ($srv.VersionMinor -eq "50")
  {
   $VersionName += " R2"
  }
 }
 $VersionEditionName = "$VersionName $EditionName"
 
 $table = New-Object system.Data.DataTable "$TableName"
 $col1 = New-Object system.Data.DataColumn VersionName,([string])
 $col2 = New-Object system.Data.DataColumn VersionEditionName,([string])
 
 $table.columns.add($col1)
 $table.columns.add($col2)
 
 $row = $table.NewRow();
 $row.VersionName = $VersionName ;
 $row.VersionEditionName = $VersionEditionName ;
 
 $table.Rows.Add($row) 

 $table
 
 Remove-Variable srv
 Remove-Variable server
 Remove-Variable EditionName
 Remove-Variable VersionName
 Remove-Variable VersionEditionName
 Remove-Variable table
 Remove-Variable col1
 Remove-Variable col2
 Remove-Variable row
}

CLS
$sd = Get-Date -format g
Write-Host "Starting: " $sd
Write-Host ""
$ServerInfo = Get-SQLServerVersion -server $LookupServer
$ServerVersionEdition = $ServerInfo.VersionEditionName
Write-Host "starting query for server: $LookupServer  version: $ServerVersionEdition "

if ($ServerInfo.VersionName -eq "2000")
{
 $BackupQuery = "
 SELECT '$($result.InstanceName)' AS [Server], DBS.name AS DBName,ISNULL(BKS.backup_size,0) AS backup_size,ISNULL(BKS.backup_size,0) AS compressed_backup_size
   ,ISNULL(BCKFMLY.device_type,0) AS device_type,BKS.backup_start_date,BKS.backup_finish_date
   , GETDATE() AS DateChecked, DATEDIFF(hour, BKUP.LastBackupDate, GETDATE()) AS HoursSinceLastBackup
 FROM sysdatabases DBS
 LEFT JOIN (
    SELECT '$($result.InstanceName)' AS [server]
      ,BK.database_name AS DBName 
      ,MAX(BK.backup_finish_date) AS LastBackupDate
      ,GETDATE() AS DateChecked
    FROM msdb.dbo.backupset BK
    LEFT JOIN msdb..backupmediafamily LBCKFMLY ON BK.media_set_id = LBCKFMLY.media_set_id
    WHERE BK.[type] = 'D'
      AND ISNULL(LBCKFMLY.physical_device_name,'\') LIKE '%\%'
      AND ISNULL(LBCKFMLY.physical_device_name,'\') NOT LIKE '{%'
    GROUP BY database_name
   ) BKUP  ON BKUP.DBName = DBS.name
 LEFT JOIN msdb.dbo.backupset BKS ON DBS.name = BKS.database_name AND BKUP.LastBackupDate = BKS.backup_finish_date AND BKS.[type] = 'D'
 LEFT JOIN msdb..backupmediafamily BCKFMLY ON BKS.media_set_id = BCKFMLY.media_set_id
 WHERE DBS.crdate < DATEADD(hour,-24,GETDATE()) 
   AND DBS.name NOT IN ('tempdb')
   AND DATABASEPROPERTYEX(DBS.name, 'Status') = 'ONLINE'
   AND ISNULL(BCKFMLY.physical_device_name,'\') NOT LIKE '{%'  
   AND ISNULL(BCKFMLY.physical_device_name,'\') LIKE '%\%' 
 ORDER BY bkup.DBName
 "
}
elseif ($ServerInfo.VersionName -eq "2005")
{
 $BackupQuery = "
 SELECT '$($result.InstanceName)' AS [Server], DBS.name AS DBName,ISNULL(BKS.backup_size,0) AS backup_size,ISNULL(BKS.backup_size,0) AS compressed_backup_size
   ,ISNULL(BCKFMLY.device_type,0) AS device_type,BKS.backup_start_date,BKS.backup_finish_date
   , GETDATE() AS DateChecked, DATEDIFF(hour, BKUP.LastBackupDate, GETDATE()) AS HoursSinceLastBackup
 FROM sys.databases DBS
 OUTER APPLY (
     SELECT BK.database_name ,
       MAX(BK.backup_finish_date) AS LastBackupDate
     FROM msdb.dbo.backupset BK
     LEFT JOIN msdb..backupmediafamily LBCKFMLY ON BK.media_set_id = LBCKFMLY.media_set_id
     WHERE DBS.name = BK.database_name
       AND BK.[type] = 'D'
       AND ISNULL(LBCKFMLY.physical_device_name,'\') LIKE '%\%'
       AND ISNULL(LBCKFMLY.physical_device_name,'\') NOT LIKE '{%'
     GROUP BY BK.database_name
    ) AS BKUP
 LEFT JOIN msdb.dbo.backupset BKS ON BKUP.database_name = BKS.database_name AND BKUP.LastBackupDate = BKS.backup_finish_date AND BKS.[type] = 'D'
 LEFT JOIN msdb..backupmediafamily BCKFMLY ON BKS.media_set_id = BCKFMLY.media_set_id
 WHERE DBS.create_date < DATEADD(hour,-24,GETDATE())
   AND DBS.state_desc = 'ONLINE'
   AND DBS.name NOT IN ('tempdb')
   AND ISNULL(BCKFMLY.physical_device_name,'\') NOT LIKE '{%'  
   AND ISNULL(BCKFMLY.physical_device_name,'\') LIKE '%\%' 
 ORDER BY DBS.name

 "
}
else
{
 $BackupQuery = "
 SELECT '$($result.InstanceName)' AS [Server], DBS.name AS DBName,ISNULL(BKS.backup_size,0) AS backup_size,ISNULL(BKS.backup_size,0) AS compressed_backup_size
   ,ISNULL(BCKFMLY.device_type,0) AS device_type,BKS.backup_start_date,BKS.backup_finish_date
   , GETDATE() AS DateChecked, DATEDIFF(hour, BKUP.LastBackupDate, GETDATE()) AS HoursSinceLastBackup
 FROM sys.databases DBS
 OUTER APPLY (
     SELECT BK.database_name ,
       MAX(BK.backup_finish_date) AS LastBackupDate
     FROM msdb.dbo.backupset BK
     LEFT JOIN msdb..backupmediafamily LBCKFMLY ON BK.media_set_id = LBCKFMLY.media_set_id
     WHERE DBS.name = BK.database_name
       AND BK.[type] = 'D'
       AND ISNULL(LBCKFMLY.physical_device_name,'\') LIKE '%\%'
       AND ISNULL(LBCKFMLY.physical_device_name,'\') NOT LIKE '{%'
     GROUP BY BK.database_name
    ) AS BKUP
 LEFT JOIN msdb.dbo.backupset BKS ON BKUP.database_name = BKS.database_name AND BKUP.LastBackupDate = BKS.backup_finish_date AND BKS.[type] = 'D'
 LEFT JOIN msdb..backupmediafamily BCKFMLY ON BKS.media_set_id = BCKFMLY.media_set_id
 WHERE DBS.create_date < DATEADD(hour,-24,GETDATE())
   AND DBS.state_desc = 'ONLINE'
   AND DBS.name NOT IN ('tempdb')
   AND ISNULL(BCKFMLY.physical_device_name,'\') NOT LIKE '{%'  
   AND ISNULL(BCKFMLY.physical_device_name,'\') LIKE '%\%' 
 ORDER BY DBS.name
 "
}
try
{
 Get-SQLJobStatus -server $LookupServer
 $BackupResults = Invoke-Sqlcmd -Query $BackupQuery -ServerInstance $LookupServer -Database master -ErrorAction Stop;
 $BackupResults | Out-GridView
 Remove-Variable BackupResults
 Remove-Variable BackupQuery
}
catch
{
 Write-OutputHighlighted -inputText "Error connecting to server " $LookupServer
}
$ed = Get-Date -format g
Write-Host "
Complete: " $ed

<#######################
 ## CLEANUP VARIABLES ##
 #######################>
Remove-Variable sd
Remove-Variable ed
Remove-Variable LookupServer
Remove-Variable ServerInfo
Remove-Variable ServerVersionEdition

You can see that we have broken out the query to check msdb for last backup info into three different queries, based on if the server is 2000, 2005 or 2008+ This is done due to the differences in views with the different versions.